The swedish company Polarbit finally did it and released Reckless racing on Android and Iphone. 4 Months ago they announced that the game is finished and in testing, so let’s take a look if this great looking game can keep it’s promises of being a well balanced racer with cross-plattform multiplayer. We tested the game thoroughly and found some heavy dents in the crown of the new king of top-down racing games on the plattform.
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A few months ago rumors started to spread about a PSP Android phone by Sony Ericsson and while these rumors sounded very convincing (since every gamer expected such a device since Sony formed it’s partnership and brought their first phone together to the market), finally some real screenshots came to light over at Engadget.
What you see here is a mobile gamers dream come true, a real D-Pad, real buttons, two optical trackpads to emulate analog sticks and shoulder buttons deliver complete control over your games, just like on a real gaming handheld. No lousy D-Pad like the N-Gage, real buttons on the side of the touchscreen, so you don’t accidentaly press them like on the Nexus One, the design just looks flawless for gaming. A second menue button under the D-Pad and the placement of the back button on the left side of the system keys will ensure, that you don’t need to rearrange your grip to reach all keys. The Touch Panel on the backside also ensures, that you can touch anywhere on the screen without blocking the view or letting go of your controls.
I’m pretty sure, I am looking at my next phone here, this is the killer gaming device I expected from Microsoft for their Windows 7 launch, which never came and makes their device lineup look pale for gamers. Even if Sony wouldn’t go all out (like the rumor mill says) and not builds a real gaming store for this device, I would need one of those for the massive amount of Android games, that would profit from better controls. The dual analog Sticks combined with the shoulder buttons will make building first person games reasonable for the first time on a mobile device, not even the original PSP could deliver that.
The device, which codename is “Zeus” has the following rumored specs at the moment:
1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (like the G2, but 200 Mhz faster)
512MB RAM
1GB of ROM
a screensize around 3.7 to 4.1 inches
We’ll let you know as soon as we have more solid info about Sony’s plans for Android, but whatever they are, if we get such a sexy device out of it, then Sony is on the best way on the road to success. The only thing I wish for on this device is a 3D screen from Sharp, which would make playing First person shooters a lot of fun and since Sony is on the forefront of bringing 3D into households, I hope they cease this opportunity and build it in, I don’t care if it bumps up the price point and so would a lot of gamers. Let’s hope for the best and pray to the gaming gods, that our wish will come true, since our last one for a PSP Phone seems to be fially getting heard.
Source: Engadget
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Today I visited Green Robot, who were kind enough to let us take a good look on the Galaxy tab and test out it’s gaming capabilities. Since the Galaxy Tab is one of the hottest gadgets at the moment, we won’t bother you with a device review, because you can already find good user impressions on the net, I recommend engadget in english and golem in german.
Instead we will focus on it’s gaming capabilities, which could very well be the secret weapon for the 7 inch tablets, give tips for developers on how to optimize for the device and show some videos of popular android games running on it.
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Update 21th Oktober: The game is now available in the market, first impressions show beautiful graphics with way to less content (one sitting on the toilet is enough to see everything) and faked online Multiplayer (You can win the race, but in the results you can be last, they just compare the whole racing time), but all in all, it is a great game. Here is the QR Code and the market Link:
Update 20th October Nearly 4 months later, after a publisher switch to EA, Pixelbite just announced via Facebook and Twitter that they will finally release Reckless Racing in the coming days:
After several twists and turns it is finally judgment day… Reckless Racing will be hitting the stores this week. This includes iPhone, iPad, Android and Palm OS versions of the game.
Hope you’ll enjoy it and don’t drive safe!
Guess we finally find out if all the waiting was worth it.
Old News:
Two months ago we showed you the next releases from Pixelbite and now the racing game formerly known as Deliverace is finished and in testing. As an appetizer, the soundtrack got released, you can listen to the tunes created by Martin Noriander a.k.a. Instant Remedy at his page.
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It’s time for another puzzle game, in Yumsters you stretch worms across the screen to feed them fruit. What sounds really trivial in the beginning soon turns into a feeding frenzy that utilizes the touch gameplay really well.Let’s have a look, what Herocraft and Kranx have cooked up for us.
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Nearly every Android gamer knows Angry Birds by now, the most successful Iphone Game is now available for our plattform and the special surprise is, that it is free (ad supported). This came a little unexpected, because a title that is this successful on other plattforms would have done great with a paid version.
But now there is no way around this game, if you have a Android phone, you owe it to yourself to download this game immediately.
If you have a Galaxy S, or another phone where the game won’t appear in the market for you, you can download the full game from GetJar.
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Some games just never get old, here I am again, wasting hours on another clone of the oldest mobile game there is, Snake. But Mini Army is different, if you would just browse by a screenshot, you wouldn’t think it’s a snake clone. But the cute little soldiers, panzers and helis are just eye candy, this is pure Snake with a combo bonus, if you (def)eat 5,10,15,etc. enemies in a short amount of time.
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The last month was great for Android gamers, one great release followed the next and even the biggest critics had to recognize Android as a force in mobile gaming. The launch of Openfeint brought many great new games with it and the launch of Unity 3 promises great new 3D Games for the future. Since there are so many games we want to show you, we are back up to 20 Titles for this months Top List, 10 free, 10 paid. As you can see we are still in dire need of more reviewers, so if you’d like to review for Androidpimps please contact me at dan@androidpimps.com
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