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South Korea could block Android Market

According to yonhapnews.co.kr, the South Korean Government is aligning itself to ‘ban’ the Android market. Indeed, “Google Inc. may be barred from operating an Android market place in South Korea, if it continues to circulate game contents without approval from the country’s regulating body, government officials said Thursday.”
“If Google does not take any measures, we [...]

PAC-MAN now available for Android; Sherpa gets positioning assistance

Today Namco announced that PAC-MAN, along with Inspector Gadget, Rolling with Katamari, and Brain Coach, is now available for the Google Android smartphone platform.  Users can find the games in the Android Market app store.
In somewhat related software news, Sherpa developer Geodelic announced today that it has partnered with Skyhook, developer of a positioning system [...]

Phoload: free applications for Android smartphones

Phoload, a provider of applications and games for other mobile devices, has begun showcasing free applications for the Android platform.  The service includes only free (and ad-supported) applications for download, and allows developers to upload their own applications directly to the site.  Users of Android devices that view the site through their phones will view [...]

EA now selling Tetris and Monopoly for Android directly

EA mobile has directly released 2 games for Android: Tetris and Monopoly Here & Now. Don’t bother looking for them on the Android Market as EA wants you to pay for them and the Android Market is still only for free apps.
Both of the games are available for $7.99 from www.eamobile.com. Tetris is also available [...]

Connect2Media to offer 12 Android games

Mobile Entertainment is reporting that Connect2Media has plans to make 12 different games available for the Android OS platform once Google opens up the Android Market for non-free applications. The story says that the first games should be available in Q1 of 2009.
The initial games will include ‘4 in a Row EX’ and ‘Classic [...]

6 upcoming Android games

The guys over at TalkAndroid.com have posted a nice feature on 6 upcoming games that are being developed for the Google Android smartphone platform. Some of them are pretty basic, like the Atari Tempest clone SpaceBugs, but others are much more complicated and attempt to blur the line between online and reality by building [...]