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Star Wars Galactic Defense game coming soon to Android

Star Wars is one of the most popular science fiction franchises in the world. You would have to live under a rock to not know that a new film is in the works now that Disney owns the rights to the franchise. A new game is also in the works for mobile gamers called Star Wars Galactic Defense.



The game is "coming soon" for Android and iPhone, exactly when soon is we don't know. The game will offer fans free in-game rewards. Darth Maul will be one of the in-game rewards you can get.


Gamers can pre-register for the game and get ten points added to their reward meter. Pre-registering also gets gamers notification when the game launches. Galactic Defense is a tower defense game and it will be free.


You can bet it will be supported with in-game purchases like most mobile games these days. Players will get to play for the dark or light side of the force. Upgrades will be available for the defenses and competition against friends will be supported.




SOURCE: Star Wars Galactic Defense


Early Gear VR games will come without price tags

Aspiring Gear VR game developers beware. If you plan on jumping on this new, interesting, yet still unproven platform, you might be waiving your right to monetize your product, at least for the time being. This is due to a limitation to the Oculus Platform that will be launching earlier than scheduled alongside Samsung's virtual reality headset.



Oculus Platform is the marketplace that Oculus has for its own Rift VR device, which is still scheduled to launch sometime in 2015 (if at all). However, because of the tides of fate, Oculus and Samsung have struck up a partnership that became the Samsung Gear VR, an amalgamation of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 hardware and Oculus' virtual reality know-how. The Gear VR is scheduled to launch later this year, which meant that the Oculus Platform would also have to launch early. Unfortunately, it's so early that there isn't even a payment system in place yet.


Oculus notes that monetization systems are hard, and any digital app or product vendor would agree. They haven't gone around to implementing that part yet, and early adopters will have to live with it. While the Galaxy Note 4 is an Android smartphone, and you can install Android apps, both free and paid, just fine, Gear VR products will only come from the Oculus Platform and the Oculus Platform alone. So the bottom line is, if you're a game developer looking into getting your wares up on the Gear VR, you'll have to accept the fact that you won't get money for it until much later.


On the one hand, it's a perfect way to lure more interested buyers, as the cost of the Galaxy Note 4 and Gear VR combo alone is already quite steep. But it could also spell an early death for the platform, or at least for the Gear VR. A platform is only as strong as the apps available for it, something that Samsung must truly know from its experience with Tizen. While some game developers would be willing to give away their games, especially if there are IAP options, OUYA's history shows that actually forcing them to do so will only be met with backlash. Of course, Oculus isn't intentionally doing it and has just been caught in a tight spot. Hopefully Samsung, who is definitely knowledgeable about running their own store, can lend a helping hand, for its own Gear VR's sake if nothing else.


SOURCE: Polygon

VIA: Gamasutra





e-Cal update brings better features for task lists

If you've been using the e-Cal calendar as your productivity tool of choice, then this new update might make you a bit happier, if you've been wishing for more task list integration. And if you're searching for a calendar app to use instead of your device's built-in one, then you might want to consider e-Cal, given its simple but very useful features.



The update to the calendar app now ensures that the tasks features is free for everyone, since one of the selling points of e-Cal is that it's free. Makes sense that its important features should be free as well right? You can also now view all the tasks you've scheduled in an all-tasks lists, to ensure that you've written down all that you need to do, and to be able to look at them in just one glance. Another update to the app is that you can now turn off that sometimes annoying text included which says "created with e-Cal" because after all, who would want watermarks all over the place.


e-Cal also has a roadmap for their future plans to improving the app. The next update will be adding countdown to important events, the ability to put a star on events you want to highlight and adding more themes for those who are bored with the normal calendar looks. For their farther plans, they said they will be providing even better integration with their other app, the e-Cal Event Planner. They will also be including weather info in all the calendar views, which includes day, week and month views. They also plan to add a half-week or 3-day view, for when your week is just too jampacked.


The app is available not just in English but also in Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portugese, German, Chinese and Russian. e-Cal calendar app is available for free from the Google Play Store.


SOURCE: e-Cal


Galaxy S5 G900 and Galaxy S4 i9506 CyanogenMod 11 nightlies are here

We have some good news for owners of the T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S5 smartphone. If you like to hack the software on your device, CyanogenMod 11 Nightlies are now available for both the T-Mobile LTE smartphone and the international unlocked versions of the device.



Along with nightlies for those versions of the Galaxy S5 also comes nightlies for another version of the Galaxy S4, the i9506 LTE-A version to be precise. The software or the S5 is labeled on the CyanogenMod page as being for klte.


There is a single nightly offered for the S5 right now. The Galaxy S4 software is on the CyanogenMod page as being for ks01lte. There is a single nightly available for that device as well.


As always, to install the software on your device you will need to unlock the bootloader and run the CyanogenMod ROM. Once complete, you'll have your fancy custom ROM to play with.


DOWNLOAD: CyanogenMod (1), (2)

SOURCE: Android Police





Humble Mobile Bundle 8 packs 6 games

Mobile gamers looking to get their hands on some new mobile games to play on the go should check out the Humble Mobile Bundle 8 game pack that landed recently. Like the standard Humble Bundle, these games are available in a group for whatever you feel like paying.



The catch to the Humble Mobile Bundle is that you only get access to four games for any amount paid. To get access to Little Big Adventure and Tower Madness 2 you have to pay more than the average amount.


Gamers who pay $5 or more for the bundle will get Epoch.2. The mobile games the bundle brings with it no matter what you pay include Tentacle Wars, Doodle God, Doodle Devil, and Wave Wave.




Humble Mobile Bundle will be available to purchase until October 8 at 11:00 am Pacific. So far, 15531 bundles have been sold and right now, the average paid for the bundle is $3.81.


SOURCE: Humble Bundle


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BlackBerry Blend app brings content from BB phone to tablet and computer

BlackBerry isn’t giving up anytime soon. Yep, the Canadian smartphone pioneer is still in the business. CEO John Chen is still confident that the company can still be relevant in the market today. Recently, it released a new model in the form of BlackBerry Paspport—a phone that combines touchscreen goodness with the familiar physical QWERTY keyboard.



To make things better for those who still own a BlackBerry, here's a new app that brings content and messaging from BlackBerry to Android. Officially called as the BlackBerry Blend, this app blends the content you’re receiving on your trusty old BlackBerry phone to any Android tablet you own. If before, you can only read your mails on your BlackBerry, you can now access them in real time on a tablet.


This new app gives BlackBerry users another reason to love the company and assurance that it’s not bidding goodbye (at least not yet). Admit it, a BlackBerry handset may be too small for some and doing most of your work stuff on the tablet is fast becoming a norm these days.


BlackBerry Blend allows you to receive instant notifications, read and reply to work and personal messages, access documents, contacts, media, and calendar. All these and more the same way you would on a BlackBerry phone. Even without VPN, you can read and respond to text messages and BBM, as well as, access mails right on the tablet once the app is installed. Of course, just as long as the Android tablet is connected to the Internet via WiFi, 3G, or 4G/LTE.


BlackBerry Blend app only works with select BlackBerry phones but the new Porsche Design P’9983 and BlackBerry Passport phones will have the app pre-installed already. Versions of the BlackBerry Blend are also available for Mac, iOS, and PC.


Download BlackBerry Blend app from Google Play Store


SOURCE: BlackBerry





Moto 360 firmware update improves performance of smartwatch

The first round-faced smartwatch running on Android Wear, the Moto 360, is pretty sweet already on its own, but of course, as with most 1st generation devices, there might still be some bugs in it. The round smartwatch owners received a prompt to download and install a new firmware update.This has reportedly bettered the performance of the wearable, even if there are no major feature-based improvements.



It's not exactly Android Wear 2.0, but more like 1.0.1.1448224 (previously 1.0.1.1387258) and build number KGW42R (previously KGW42N). As for what this has brought the Moto 360 owners, they've reported that the Google Now cards are more "fluid and responsive" on their smartwatch. But other than that obvious improvement, there are no major changes yet that can be seen after the update.


According to the official changelog from Motorola, the update will supposedly improve the Bluetooth connectivity between the smartwatch and the Android device it is rooted to, as some users have reported that there have been some "momentary disconnects" between the devices. Another minor improvement is that there is now a message that will confirm that your Moto 360 is charging, particularly when the smartwatch's battery is fully drained.


If you haven't received any firmware update yet, don't panic and wonder if your Moto 360 is broken. Motorola said they will be continually rolling out the update in phases in the next few days. And maybe you wouldn't even notice that it has been updated yet, so no need to rush or worry.


VIA: Droid Life





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