Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Hearthstone available for Android phones

One of the most successful games are co-existing today is Hearthstone, the Blizzard game of cards. After the computer unstoppable assault and landing back in December on Android tablets, many Hearthstone players demanded to take a few games from their own phone.


So far, Hearthstone was not available for six inches devices  or less, but Blizzard has just announced that based on World of Warcraft game, you can download it in your phone. The famous developer of games like Diablo or Heroes of Storm, has worked hard to bring Hearthstone to devices with not so big screens, and it shows in its new interface, which is designed for mobile, making it much more accessible to the user.


Otherwise, the game remains the same. Same fun, same challenges and same mechanical, except that now we can enjoy anytime, anywhere thanks to our smartphone. Blizzard said that the version for Android phones will be available in both the Amazon store and Google Play, and should be available sometime during the day. So if you come to one of these stores to download applications and still can not, be patient, it will be downloadable soon.


As if that were not enough, if we complete a game from mobile phone, we will be rewarded for a card at no cost. A very good incentive to install.

Hearthstone available for Android phones

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Lara Croft: Relic Run, the new Tomb Raider game coming soon

Square Enix is ​​still living by its most famous saga to gain a foothold in the increasingly important field of video games for Android. With the upcoming Final Fantasy Mevius just around the corner, and the recent Tomb Raider launched a few days ago, Square Enix knows that exploding a well known title for all users usually will get them pretty good results.


The next release, a game of our favorite explorer, Lara Croft. This time is no portable, but an own game created for Android. It will be called Lara Croft: Relic Run and this time we will be one endless runner. Veteran players will feel the essence of the original Tomb Raider while we enjoyed the mechanical and frenzy endless runner. It remains to be seen.


Relic Run is an endless runner in essence. But in the background is much more than this. Not only is it running while doing acrobatics, but combat phases/shots, vehicles and epic battles against bosses are also mixed, included our beloved T-Rex.


Lara Croft: Relic Run is no longer a Temple Run but starring a prettier girl, forcing us to run while dodging a multitude of obstacles. The game is free to play, with integrated-shopping and will be available for the three major smartphone platforms, iOS, Android and WP. In principle should be available in the coming months or even earlier.

Lara Croft: Relic Run, the new Tomb Raider game coming soon

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Firefox for Android now exceeds 100 million downloads

Mozilla Firefox, the free and open source web browser, has passed the 100 million downloads in the Google Play Store. 


With a rating of more than 4 stars in the Play Store and more than 100 million downloads since March 2011, when it was released, it becomes a new mark achieved by Firefox for Android, the private mobile version of the powerful, customizable, social, popular and easy to configure web browser Mozilla.


The milestones are listed on the official Mozilla blog where prey to highlight some other facts and events in the history of its development: Its launch in 2011 with immediate options to synchronize content between different devices and operating systems, presenting an optimized version for Android Tablets, Do Not Track options to ensure private browsing, support for visual themes for personalization and QuickShare web content via social networks.


A guest navigation mode, pre-installation on mobile devices and the Kobo GIGABYTE brand power transmitting video to other screens within home via Roku and Chromecast, DuckDuckGo available in its default search engine -another great thing for those who prefer a higher level of privacy-, sections to highlight frequently visited web sites and a reading mode that turns any web page into a text for easy viewing, which complete the list of the most striking features that have been successfully implemented for the Mozilla team in this bright browser.


Firefox was born as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. In their view, the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and the large number of features of Mozilla Application Suite compromised the utility of this one. To combat what they called inflated Mozilla Application Suite, they created a separate browser with the intention of replacing it. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced they would focus their efforts on Firefox and Thunderbird. After that and the years, here’s where we are.

Firefox for Android now exceeds 100 million downloads

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Google Project Tango lowers its price in half

There was a long time since we had last news about one of the most interesting projects that Google kept on, this is Project Tango. A system for creating "mapped" 3D cameras mobile devices. It started as a phone, finally becoming a tablet, with the help of LG.


The last thing we learned is that the initiative came from Google incubator because they spent two years at Google ATAP taking shape, and since early this year has been emancipated to be taking shape product. We know that Google wants to bring it closer to the public, which are mainly developers today.


For those who have been following the story of Project Tango, you will know that it was not an affordable product, as they asked for it $1024. But its price will suffer a cut of 50%, so that more people start playing with their technology, which with it actually will capitalize on their chances.


They also intend that its availability to be wider, so people who have it available soon would ask, so probably what they have done is create more units. They want it to become a more affordable product for developers, the same thing will not happen that Google Glass, who had to return to the laboratory.

Google Project Tango lowers its price in half

Friday, April 10, 2015

Fatal Fury Special comes to Android

If you are around 30 years old you probably remember a series of fighting games that the company SNK launched in the 90s. All of them were part of expensive -and impressive- catalog of Neo Geo console that all kind of addicted to video games dreamed of having, because it was like having an Amusement arcade at home.


Among this plethora of games they had some as Art of Fighting, 3 Count Bout, World Heroes and one that was ported to other platforms and that is now the one we are talking about today: Fatal Fury Special. After a 22 years, this classic among classics has been adequate for transportation to mobile platforms.


Originally, Fatal Fury Special was an updated version of Fatal Fury 2, although from SNK Playmore  -current name of the company- said that this release is much more than that, after reviewing the balance of the game and have introduced a new system for combos, which apparently were never included before the launch of the original game.


This title includes the same 16 characters who appeared in the first game, and as in all other fighting games from the company that this has reissued, there are two kinds of control buttons that users can choose: The four traditional SNK and a new system of six buttons that supposedly makes easy creating combos.


If at the time you played it and liked it and you want to relive what this game made you experience and if you've played the reissues of the current company as the King of Fighters, then it may be worth you buy the game for a price pretty ridiculous when compared to the original price -in 1993 was around 120 euros-, since you can purchase it for 3.99 euros.

Fatal Fury Special comes to Android

Football Manager Classic 2015 comes to Google Play

A few months ago the company SEGA dedicated to video games, in collaboration with Sports Interactive, presented the new version of its most famous game of football, Football Manager Handheld 2015 A game is an adaptation of the full version available for PC, a complete game that can't be compared with these other version, because something is missing to enjoy 100% of the experience offered by the manager computer simulator.


This time we have a new version of the same game, improved renewal that makes this Football Manager Classic 2015 a complete set, with more leagues, better features and a limitation on their tablets compatible devices reduced because those extra functions and new ways of viewing, needing higher resolution displays and devices with certain "power", something that not all terminals with Android have. Here you can see the list of differences between the new Football Manager Classic 2015 and Football Manager Handheld 2015 released in November 2014.


Football Manager Classic 2015 will allow you to control any real club from a selection of 117 leagues from 51 countries and making decisions as if an actual coach in question. One of the most important developments is the new way to follow the action through the new 3D match engine with a variety of camera angles.


Some of the most important features of the game:

An immersive experience in match day
An intuitive menu system optimized for touch screen
Scouting global players
Interaction with players, staff and media
Comprehensive training of players and equipment
A flexible management structure
Accelerated game option, the result of the instantaneous matches
Challenge mode, headings established a series of goals to achieve.


This version for tablets of Football Manager Classic 2015 will have a fairly high price, namely 19.99 euros (plus in-app payments), an expensive game for Android users, used to free-to-play games.

Football Manager Classic 2015 comes to Google Play

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Youtube is preparing a subscription service payment to avoid ads

Youtube, the streaming service most used in the world in terms of playing videos, has content for both amateurs and professionals Youtubers, a big problem that are a part of the subject of ads where there they generate monthly income through what is commonly known as a partner and a good number of these users with tools to prevent the browser as Adblock.


According to information appeared in the media, Youtube despite being the service for excellence in online video playback, barely manages to generate income, since shuffling would implement a surcharge or rather, a monthly subscription where all users who wish may apply the improvement and prevent these integrated advertising, similar to what we see in Youtube Music Key.


Also, note that this also results in benefits, whether net or gross for Youtuber then receive up to 55% of the payments made to the subscription, much like what was rumored at the time as the option of a button integrated donate to whom we wish to make. For according to whom this will be a good option to increase the benefits of your favorite youtuber, but on the other hand we can say that, having among us tools that are well suited for blocking Youtube annoying ads when viewing a video, this subscription could cost $10, if only gives us that little success will therefore should apply more improvements and user benefits not only avoid integrated advertising.


We'll see if it becomes reality and how, as we will be watching to see how it affects to Android users.

Youtube is preparing a subscription service payment to avoid ads