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Final Fantasy IV The After Years finally coming to Android Sep 23rd 2013, 07:25, by Juan Carlos Torres Here’s another installment on the hopefully neverending saga of bringing beloved titles to our favorite mobile platform. Square Enix has announced that the sequel to Final Fantasy IV will be coming to Android and iOS devices this winter. This is definitely not the first Final Fantasy game to get ported over to Android, and hopefully it will not be the final one. The first four classic titles are already on Android, with the fifth installment already announced to arrive on the 26th. And as far as more “modern” Final Fantasy games go, Final Fantasy Agito, which is based on the Final Fantasy Type-0 universe, will be arriving this winter, though it remains unknown whether it will be translated into English after the release. But even if it isn’t immediately localized, though we hope it eventually will, we will have Final Fantasy IV: The After Years to keep us company during the season ahead. Taking place 17 years after the game of its namesake, The After Years brings back some of the cast and introduces new ones in a revamped 3D graphics style. Initially released in 2008 exclusively to Japanese smartphones, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years was later translated and bundled up with FFIV: The Complete Collection for the PSP in 2011. No exact release date or pricing details have been announced yet. We’re not sure if this Android version will be available outside of Japan and in English but, given the history of the title and other classic Final Fantasy games, we’re quite hopeful that will be the case as well. SOURCE: 4gamer VIA: Pocket Gamer Qualcomm joins rival Wireless Power Consortium board Sep 23rd 2013, 06:54, by Juan Carlos Torres In a rather surprising and somewhat suspicious move, ARM chip manufacturer Qualcomm has joined the management board of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), the group responsible for the popular Qi wireless charging standard. This is despite the fact that Qualcomm is a founding member of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), another group that is pushing for a rival standard. Of the two, the Qi standard came first and is more well-known, with the WPC backed by 172 companies. And yet it seems that advancement on their front is moving at a snail-paced progress. The first generation inductive charging method currently requires strict alignment of devices on the charging mats, which can only provide 5W of power, although the WPC is working on increasing it to 15W. On the other hand, the A4WP’s standard, which has no name yet, has already been approved for 24W of output. Their implementation also allows for multiple devices with different power requirements to use the same charging pad. But while the WPC’s implementation is limited to one device per mat, it allows for more fine-grained control such as delivering only the exact needed amount of energy and turning the mat off automatically once the device is fully charged. One can only hope that this move would mean that industry players would eventually be rallying behind just a single inductive charging standard, but such hopes might sound too ideal. It’s too early to say if Qualcomm does have that in mind when it joined the other side or if it has some ulterior motive for its move. VIA: Engadget

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