There’s news in the world of retro games today. Sonic the Hedgehog has made it onto iOS and Android devices. “But wait,” you say. “I already own Sonic the Hedgehog on my iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.” Ah, but this is a better, remastered version of Sonic the Hedgehog and means you’ll need to update your version, so more »

Google revealed a new set of developer APIs today that help make up Google Play games services. These APIs allow any interested developer integrate cloud saves, achievements, leaderboards and online multiplayer (Android only) in their Android, iOS and web-based games. When this information was first leaked, it was an exciting moment. It seemed like Google more »

Google officially announced and launched Google Play games services today at Google I/O. Google Play games services isn’t a standalone application that houses all your gaming achievements and friends like Apple’s Game Center. It’s really just a family of APIs developers can integrate into their games. These APIs will brings things such as cloud saves, more »

Ah, Punch Quest, an endless runner with lots of humor. Am I upset that the Android version took over a year to appear and costs $0.99 when the iOS version was free-to-play? Nope. I’m just happy that it is finally here and I am more than happy to pay $1 for RocketCat Games and Madgarden’s more »

Rovio is looking outside itself for interesting games to bring to the public. The company that Angry Birds built is now a publisher of third-party games. Rovio’s publishing arm is called Rovio Stars, and it currently has two games in the pipeline. The first is called Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage, and the second is Tiny more »

Today is the first and only day you can download Carmageddon from Google Play for free. This version of Carmageddon was made possible by Kickstarter contributions. It’s also the same game that was released for the PC and Mac so long ago. After 24 hours, the free version of Carmageddon will disappear and will be more »

Sony’s initiative to embrace the indie developer community took another step in the right direction today. The publishing fee that was required to develop for the PlayStation Mobile platform is now nixed. Any developer that wants to see their games on PlayStation certified devices such as the Vita and select devices from certain manufactures don’t more »

If you want to save money on the latest games this week, Toys R Us looks to be the place to go. It’s ad for May 5-11, 2013 is out and it offers some good deals on the latest PS3 and Xbox 360 releases. It’s a big 2 for $70 event, which is pretty substantial more »

Minecraft developer Mojang have been celebrating after selling the 10 millionth copy of Minecraft – Pocket Edition. About a month ago, Mojang jumped for joy over the 10 millionth sale of the PC version of Minecraft as well as congratulating Mojang founder Markus “Notch” Persson for reaching 2nd place in Time magazine’s TIME 100 Poll.

Not long ago, the Australian Classification Board inadvertently announced a game called Men’s Room Mayhem. And then we didn’t hear anything about the game again. It was just this shadowy, Vita, Android and iOS secret lurking at the corner of our vision, ducking into a bathroom if we tried to get a closer look at more »