Software

In October 2013, I attended the EB Expo in Sydney and met the independent developer, Injoy Labs. At the time, they had a working prototype of their game, Cell Surgeon, but the game was still quite a ways off...

Over the years I have spent countless hours besieging towns, villages and fortresses in Rome: Total War. I spent many a days with all the various versions of Total War as well. Something about working your w...

As we all know, Google has most recently been referring to its upcoming software releases by the first letter of its name - this year's being Android N, last year's was Android M, and so on and so forth. While ...

NVIDIA announced this morning that two more major developers, SEGA and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, are jumping on board with their GeForce NOW subscription game streaming service for the NVIDIA SHIE...

Nintendo is about to start its official onslaught on mobile devices and its first act shall be Miitomo, a free-to-play pseudo-social game that features Nintendo's trademark Mii avatars. The premise is presumabl...

In the highly competitive space of video streaming, YouTube has been trying valiantly to cover all its bases. It's game streaming effort, YouTube Gaming, has been doing reasonably well since its launch in Au...

I'm sure many of us weren't expecting to hear anything official about Android N until Google I/O 2016 later this year, but it appears that Google is going to jump the gun itself this year by announcing the avai...

YouTube has announced a new tool for its creators that lets them apply a custom blurring effect to objects in their videos. Creators could already use a blurring tool to blur out faces from their videos, so the...

I am an 80's kid, so I grew up watching the Smurfs. The new era Smurf movies are fun, cool and exciting, but they just don't have the same appeal as the cartoons. If you want to relive those days of old, Ubisof...

For those of you who are yet to come over to Gmail as your primary email provider, you've been able to access your other accounts from Outlook, Yahoo and more in the Gmail app on Android. Unfortunately, because...

Many of you will know the name Picasa as a place to store photos and many of you will have used it for many years. Unfortunately, that run is going to come to an end as Picasa is shutting down and Google ...

For Rockstar Games, the mobile gaming revolution has been a great time to dig out all its last-gen games (or in some cases last-last-gen) and repackage them for mobile platforms - and let's be honest: it's a wi...

Alto's Adventure is a name that has circulated the Internet for a year now, but unfortunately the hugely popular mobile game has only been available on iOS. Thankfully, today that exclusivity disappears as A...

We knew Final Fantasy IX for Android would be releasing soon based on the state it was in for a livestream we saw last month, but we didn't expect it this soon. Not two months after announcing that it was...

Even though we focus on Android here at AndroidSPIN, it's been an interesting experience watching Firefox OS try and break into the mobile industry. It's been enlightening, definitely for us, but presumably ...

I have a pretty big soft spot for Kairosoft games - if you haven't heard of Kairosoft before, you might have heard of their breakout mobile game: Game Dev Story. From there, the studio has released a mountain o...

For those who don't know, Chinese New Year is just around the corner and we'll soon be welcoming the Year of the Monkey. To help celebrate the festivities, Rockstar Games has discounted its most culturally-r...

Mobile game publisher Glu Mobile has made a number of big announcements over the last few months and has been generally successful over that period as well. Coming off an incredibly successful game featuring Ki...

Microsoft has been doing a pretty spectacular job recently of getting its tendrils into the Android (and iOS) world, whether it be via first-party developed apps or purchasing well-established companies to c...

Nintendo is a company in flux at the moment with its traditional means of sales (i.e. consoles and associated video games) slowly faltering. 2016 promises to be a year full of surprises from the Japanese game c...