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- Nyko announces line of products for NVIDIA Shield
- Google and Waze officially begin a happy life together
- Mad Catz announces Android-powered M.O.J.O gaming console
- Pixel Kingdom – 8 bits of tower defense/RTS fun
- Get this look for your Android: Blue White 2
| Nyko announces line of products for NVIDIA Shield Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:02 AM PDT Nyko announced on Tuesday that it will soon offer a line of products related to the NVIDIA Shield portable gaming console. Set to arrive this summer and later this year, the accessories are designed to make things easier for gamers on the go. Nyko, attending E3, is showing off the new products to those in attendance, promising price and more specific launch details at a later date. Details pulled from the press release:
The SHIELD Dock provides a sleek and easy alternative for powering the device and utilizing its HDMI capabilities. Simply place the unit into the dock and SHIELD will begin to charge while outputting to the attached display. The SHIELD Dock is powered by the same AC adapter that ships with SHIELD, and features a full-sized HDMI port allowing for easy connection to any HDTV screen. The SHIELD Dock will be released later this year. Nyko is also showing two separate cases for SHIELD. The Travel Case is an EVA soft case while the Shell Case is a high-impact hard case. Both cases fully encapsulate SHIELD, providing total protection. A detachable accessory bag is included to store the AC adapter and any necessary cables while traveling. An included carabineer allows the case to be conveniently attached to a laptop bag or backpack. Both the Travel Case and Shell Case will be available this summer. The Power Kit provides all the necessary adapters and cables to recharge SHIELD at home, while traveling, or in the car. The kit includes one AC adapter, one car adapter and one extra-long Micro USB cable with Velcro strap. The Power Kit is an ideal replacement or secondary bundle for those looking to recharge SHIELD. The Power Kit will be available this summer. The post Nyko announces line of products for NVIDIA Shield appeared first on AndroidGuys. |
| Google and Waze officially begin a happy life together Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:35 AM PDT
According to their post this morning, the current Waze development team will remain in Israel and operate separately for now. The team is looking forward to collaborating with Google Maps to bring some new traffic update features provided by Waze, as well as enhance the Waze application with Google's search capabilities. “The Waze community and its dedicated team have created a great source of timely road corrections and updates. We welcome them to Google and look forward to working with them in our ongoing effort to make a comprehensive, accurate, and useful map of the world.” Brian McClendon, Vice President, Geo. Make sure to check back often, as we will update you on any new features or app enhancements as the life of Google Maps and Waze begins.
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| Mad Catz announces Android-powered M.O.J.O gaming console Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:09 AM PDT Mad Catz announced at E3 this week that this holiday season will give way to a new Android-based gaming console. Called the M.O.J.O, it’s a gaming console that should find a home among the OUYA and NVIDIA Shield crowd.
"M.O.J.O. is basically a supercharged smart phone with no screen that plugs into your flat screen TV to bring the living room experience to mobile gaming. M.O.J.O. is designed to interact seamlessly with our GameSmart controllers, mice, keyboards and headsets, in fact, the entire eco-system of gaming peripherals," said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. The press release is very light on details, and there’s nary a hardware spec to share. Digging a bit, we found other sites reporting some of the following:
Reading the tea leaves, we might infer a Google Play certified device that may (or may not) feature an NVIDIA processor. Given the arrival is expected “holiday 2013″, we are hoping for something in the Tegra 4 family. The M.O.J.O. will feature Mad Catz’s new C.T.R.L. controller which features both traditional and Bluetooth Smart (4.0) technologies. Look for more details on pricing and availability as we get closer to the end of the year. The post Mad Catz announces Android-powered M.O.J.O gaming console appeared first on AndroidGuys. |
| Pixel Kingdom – 8 bits of tower defense/RTS fun Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:00 AM PDT Pixel Kingdom has the ability to ensnare you in three ways: if you love pixels, if you love knights or wizards, or if you love great gameplay in a mobile format. I love all three of these things so Pixel Kingdom made it high on my list of need-to-play mobile games.
At first, you are given an archer, a warrior, and a rogue. After a few games, you can use your gold to buy characters like a wizard, a cleric, a necromancer, and a pirate. The levels seem infinite and the monsters various, and the health of the enemy base increases as you progress in the game. You can gain more money by sending your troops into a lane with a treasure chest, and you gain gems by beating certain levels. With more money and gems comes more characters and upgrades. While it would be great to pit an engineer character that costs 75,000 coins against a flying skeleton, there’s no real incentive to buy these extremely expensive characters aside from the in-game achievements. Per battle, you gain only a few hundred coins, but a paladin will cost you 22,000 and the highest character, a gladiator or pirate, will cost you 99,000. These exorbitant costs, along with the fact that the higher level characters will not add much more than the average characters you begin with, make you wonder why are there extra characters? This is where the freemium model comes in to play. Luckily, you are not bombarded with ads, and you never feel that it is necessary to buy anything, but I would have liked to seen these characters add depth to the gameplay instead of merely being extra characters. it is nice to take a second to appreciate how handmade the visuals really look. Pixel Kingdom looks and plays great. There are a few different background vistas that play in the background (woods, mountains, caves, rain, etc.), and it is nice to take a second to appreciate how handmade the visuals really look. You can see the careful placement of each pixel that created the monsters attacking you. Pixel Kingdom also has a few extra features. It includes achievements and trophies for your accomplishments. While these are not Google Play Games compatible, they give you the same sense of accomplishment, and they could easily be incorporated into the new service. You are also able to level up your characters outside of battle, and instead of boss battles, Pixel Kingdom throws dragons at you as enemies in the middle of a fight. The gameplay of Pixel Kingdom is not as varied as Swords and Soldiers, but it does mimic the childishly wonderful graphics and offers random monsters and backgrounds to play through. I would like to see deeper strategies develop for the enemy AI and a few more worthwhile characters to use in combat, but Pixel Kingdom delivers an RPG-like leveling system with a few extra stat-boosting items at the merchant. A lapse in judgment or a loss of attention can quickly bring the horned turtles and witches down on top of you. What we liked
What could be improved
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| Get this look for your Android: Blue White 2 Posted: 11 Jun 2013 05:53 AM PDT We’re huge fans of changing the home screen around a bit and creating a new user experience for our Android. So much so that we present this weekly series of Get This Look posts.
In a nutshell we show you a new look for your Android handset and tell you which apps you’ll need if you want to mimic the feel. Some of these are a little easier to create than others and many of them can be tweaked to no end. The following details are but the ingredients to which you can create your own delicious Android dish; your results will vary. Which is awesome! If nothing else, this is a great way to discover new apps, widgets, icons, and more! WHY WE LOVE THIS LOOK:Look at that blue and white color combo; really sharp stuff if you ask us! Deceivingly simple to set up, the trick is all in the wallpaper. All you have to do is figure out which shortcuts you want to use and place them in the proper spots. The vertical strip of details is far more obvious to understand once you see how it’s placed. Hint: It’s just a couple of UCCW widgets turned on their side. We get the sense that it might be fairly easy to replicate or mimic this design with our own wallpapers and look forward trying different colors. Should you have a decent grasp at Photoshop we suspect you’ll do the same. If you need some assistance in getting this look on your Android, be sure to check out the embedded YouTube video below! Check the archives for even more inspiration! WHAT YOU’LL NEED
What else:UCCW is 1×5, needed to be resized.
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