Digitally Downloaded writes: "Imagine a game like Real Racing or Mass Effect Infiltrator, but twice as big. It’s an exciting thought."
EA has begun a massive round of layoffs at its development studio FireMonkeys in Melbourne.
FireMonkeys, which was created in 2012 after EA merged IronMonkey Studios and FireMint, is one of the largest development houses in Australia. Focused exclusively on mobile development, the company is responsible for making Real Racing 3, as well as The Sims: Freeplay and Need for Speed: No Limits.
Firemonkeys released an exciting update to Real Racing 3 today, which includes a particularly intriguing feature - squeezed in amongst the Road to Le Mans content - called Party Play.
Party Play allows four friends to connect via BlueTooth controllers to an iPad, enabling local splitscreen multiplayer. Take your iPad out to your flatscreen TV with a HDMI adaptor and bingo, the Apple microconsole has arrived.
It's a no brainer to me that Apple would capitalise on its current - and effective - ecosystem to do this. Why else would they do MFI controllers if not to set up for a Microconsole?
Don't know the definition between micro console and handhelds, but I'll bite.
I microconsole is like Ouya or the Fire TV. So it is a console that sits under your TV, but rather than the full disc-based Xbox style of thing, it runs off a Android, Amazon or - in this case - iOS dashboard and downloads stuff direct from the stores.
So you play it on your TV (it's not a handheld) but you play mobile games (cause you download them from iTunes and they cost $1)
At least, that is my understanding
Well that sounds pretty Ace. I guess they would have to be games specific though, considering so many games have now been designed for touch?
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