Headlines this week
- Earlier this week, Pinterest up and acquired the crew from Fleksy Keyboard. Unlike when Microsoft bought SwiftKey, Pinterest is swallowing up the development team from Fleksy which means the keyboard will likely get much fewer updates moving forward. For now, we don't know for sure what will become of the keyboard, but it's not looking good.
- Halfbrick Studios, creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride is the next developer to join the VR train. This week they announced that they're working on a version of Fruit Ninja for VR headsets. It'll come with a few game modes and should play like the original. The game should be compatible with all popular VR headsets and should be released this month.
- During E3 2016, it was announced that Pokemon Go would be released during July at the latest. More information was also released about the optional wristband which will cost $35. Some other details have been revealed, like the fact you'll have to walk a bunch to make eggs hatch like regular Pokemon games. The hype is high and we'll see how it goes next month.
- A recent study was released this week that showed app download to be down by a dramatic amount in the US. This could be caused by a number of reasons, but the most likely ones are that people have already have these apps and don't need to download them, or they're comfortable with the apps they've got. The conclusion seems to be that this is just the app market becoming more mature.
- Microsoft had a busy E3 this week, but one of their major announcements was the release of Minecraft Realms. This allows you to buy servers directly from Microsoft to play Minecraft and also includes cross-platform support between mobile, PC, and Gear VR. We imagine consoles will be included later. On top of that, mod support is apparently coming as well.
- Microsoft also announced that they intend on purchasing LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. LinkedIn is the social network known to be used by professionals and a ton of people even use it to host their resume'. We don't know how these two companies are going to work together or if it'll be like SwiftKey where they remain separate, but the boards on both companies voted unanimously so it's probably going to happen soon.
- Telltale Games is working on a Batman game in the same vein as their other hit titles. This last week, some screenshots of the game showed up to give you an idea of what it's going to look like. The release window was also released and the game should be coming out sometime during the summer of 2016.
- Ubisoft announced a new Star Trek game this week called Star Trek: Bridge. It's a VR game that will put you in the captain's seat on a Star Trek ship and allow you to command the bridge. It's a fun idea that should be arriving on the Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR sometime this fall.
- Samsung has seen a lot of success with its Game Launcher and there are whispers that they plan on updating it with a ton of new features in the near future. Included will be a way to check your RAM instantly to make sure you have enough and a new feature called Game Scene that shows you all of your installed games in a tiled interface.
- If you've been wondering how to play this hidden games on Facebook Messenger, here is a nifty tutorial on how to do it.
- In this week's Android Customization, Feisty shows us how to see what version of Android we're running!
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