Google Launches Android Studio

Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged Rollout | TechCrunch: "Today, during Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a group of tools for app developers, including a new developer suite called Android Studio. It’s an IDE based on IntelliJ. This was a popular announcement, as the crowd “ooh’d” and “ahh’d” as screenshots were shown on stage. This tool has more options for Android Development, making the process faster and more productive. A “live layout” was shown that renders your app as you’re editing in realtime. . . ." (read more at link above)

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Microsoft Releases Xbox One Videogame Console

Microsoft Releases Xbox One Videogame Console - WSJ.com: "Under the hood, the new Xbox is powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD +1.49% chips, in a shift away from chips based on International Business Machines Corp. IBM +0.21% designs. The change makes the new Xbox more similar to Sony's upcoming PlayStation, making it easier to develop games for both companies' devices. But the two devices are also different in that Sony plans to offer a way for its advanced data centers to stream game images and button presses over the Internet to its PlayStation, allowing customers to play potentially any game instantly with a Web connection. That includes older games, which otherwise can't play on the new device. Microsoft didn't unveil that technology for Xbox One." (read more at link above)

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Microsoft and Sony Diverge on Cloud Gaming

Microsoft and Sony Diverge on Gaming 'Cloud'
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft and Sony have taken diverging approaches in their expanding war for the hearts and minds of gamers. Yes, their next-generation consoles both offer high-fidelity games, and they can both play music and movies. But the rest is rather different. . . .(read more at link above)
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Google Play game services

Introducing Google Play game services - Google Developers Blog: " . . . With game services, you can incorporate:

• Achievements that increase engagement and promote different styles of play.
• Social and public leaderboards that seamlessly use Google+ circles to track high scores across friends and across the world.
• Cloud saves that provide a simple and streamlined storage API to store game saves and settings. Now players never have to replay Level 1 again.
• Real-time multiplayer for easy addition of cooperative or competitive game play on Android devices. Using Google+ Circles, a game can have up to 4 simultaneous friends or auto-matched players in a game session together with support for additional players coming soon.

Several great Android games are already using these new game services, including World of Goo,Super Stickman Golf 2, Beach Buggy Blitz, Kingdom Rush, Eternity Warriors 2, and Osmos . . . Google Play game services are available today through an SDK for Android, and a native iOS SDK for iPhone and iPad games. Web and other platform developers will also find corresponding REST APIs, with libraries for JavaScript, Java, Python, Go, Dart, PHP, and more. . . ."


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Good software craftsmanship means working fast

Made in USA: "In software, paradoxical as it sounds, good craftsmanship means working fast. If you work slowly and meticulously, you merely end up with a very fine implementation of your initial, mistaken idea. Working slowly and meticulously is premature optimization. Better to get a prototype done fast, and see what new ideas it gives you. It sounds like making movies works a lot like making software. Every movie is a Frankenstein, full of imperfections and usually quite different from what was originally envisioned. But interesting, and finished fairly quickly. I think we get away with this in movies and software because they're both malleable mediums. Boldness pays. And if at the last minute two parts don't quite fit, you can figure out some hack that will at least conceal the problem. . . ."


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Xbox Announcement LIVE May 21

XBOX - A New Generation Revealed

Watch it LIVE, Tuesday, May 21st 1:00 pm ET (US) here (click on link or picture above)

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New Miami Investor Groups

Meet Miami's newest investor groups | The Starting Gate: " . . . .“The panel was world-class and the discussion helped us all get a better grasp on the increasing availability of venture capital in the South Florida region," said Nestor Villalobos, founder of Arctico and a Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge finalist this week (at left). He believes South Florida is quickly emerging as "the place to be for startups across the country looking to start or grow their businesses.” Glen Surnamer, COO of Bookigee, said he too thought the area is hitting an inflexion point. “I think the Miami early stage scene is becoming more comfortable being Miami, rather than trying to be the Bay, NY, Boston, Austin, etc.  This is important because each of those scenes emerged organically out of very specific sociological, demographic and economic circumstances,” Surnamer said. “The point here is that Miami entrepreneur culture has to organically germinate out of the seeds that underpin us. This is clearly starting to happen.”. . . " (read more at link above)

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OUYA available at retail on June 25 for $99

Ouya Snags $15 Million in VC Funding, Gets Delayed | Game|Life | Wired.com: "Ouya, the $99, Android-powered game console, has been bumped from its planned June 4 retail launch to June 25, according to a press release issued by its maker . . . The company (also called Ouya) announced that it has received $15 million in venture capital funding from an investment group led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and which also includes the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners." (read more at link above)

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White Hat Underground at HackMiami 2013 Conference

Hackers Unmask the White Hat Underground at HackMiami 2013 Conference in Miami Beach - MarketWatch: " . . . hackers, information security professionals, hacktivists, and musicians will be arriving at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront Hotel this weekend (5/17-5/19) for the HackMiami 2013 Hackers Conference in Miami Beach. The HackMiami Conference will provide a forum for the most skilled hackers within the white hat digital underground to showcase cutting edge hacking tools, techniques, and methodologies . . . In addition to conference activities, HackMiami will be co-sponsoring the "Surviving Miami," concert taking place at the famous Tobacco Road bar on Saturday evening (5/18). HackMiami will feature Dave Marcus, the Chief Architect of Advanced Research and Threat Intelligence at McAfee Federal Advanced Programs Group, as keynote speaker for the HackMiami 2013 Conference. . . ." (read more at link above)

HackMiami.com

Holiday Inn Oceanfront Hotel 

4333 Collins Ave

Miami Beach, FL 33140

05/17 — 05/19/2013


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The Internet Archive software collection

The Internet Archive aggressively expands its software collection, now the largest of its kind - The Next Web: Head here to explore the archive. If you’re looking for somewhere to start, check out this collection of cover disks from old issues of MacAddicts,GameStar and Linux Format Magazine. Or, check out this collection of vintage PC games, including titles like Dungeon Keeper (1997) and Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998).


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Zynga announces Solstice Arena (mobile social MOBA game)

a "multiplayer online battle arena" title -- a MOBA game

Zynga announces Solstice Arena, a social MOBA coming to mobile | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog: " . . . While it is a much more complicated game than a lot of Zynga's other offerings, Solstice Arena still makes use of social and freemium elements for sure. In addition to online matchmaking (for both skill and team setup, promises A Bit Lucky), there will be social hooks in the game, and the title will have a metagame in the form of items that can be leveled up outside of matches. There will be an in-app currency, and it'll be used to purchase heroes, buy boosts, and other outside of game elements. Obviously, the developers don't want the game to simply be pay-to-win, but this is Zynga we're talking about. While not everything is figured out just yet, it's not a stretch to predict there will definitely be no shortage of places in the app to spend real money if that's what you choose to do. . . ." (read more at link)


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US gamers: 72% play online, 56% on mobile devices

Always on? Study says 72% of U.S. gamers now play online - GeekWire: "Among other highlights from the survey: The number of U.S. gamers who use a PC for online gaming declined by 4 percentage points over the past year, to 68 percent. That’s still enough to make the PC the most popular platform for online gaming but mobile is catching up quickly. The number of respondents who said they use mobile devices for online gaming rose 12 percentage points over the same time period, to 56 percent." (read more at link above)


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Google Getting Serious About Gaming

Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game Designer | TechCrunch: "Somewhat under the radar, Google has hired the computer games veteran Noah Falstein to the position of Chief Game Designer. Yes, that’s right, the search giant, not normally known for its games development, appears to have a major gaming project in circulation, at least something that requires someone as experienced as Falstein at its helm. What that might be we can only speculate. A Google Glass-related augmented-reality game seems a possibility, though there could be something even more serious going on, given Falstein’s areas of interest. . . ." (read more at link above)


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Zynga?

What Will Actually Save Zynga? - Digits - WSJ: "Daily active users of Zynga’s games fell 8% sequentially and 21% year-over-year. Zynga’s monthly active users also fell: 15% sequentially and 13% year-over-year. Zynga’s average bookings per DAU is also declining, down 11% year-over-year. Some quick context: There weren’t any mobile game launches between “Bubble Safari” and “What’s The Phrase,” which came out earlier this month, but there are more are on the way. That can lead to a major drain on Zynga’s DAUs, who have proven to be very fickle gamers." (read more at link above)


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Smartphones, Cameras, Game Consoles

Smartphones Sting Canon, Nintendo - WSJ.com: " . . . The emergence of smartphones—global shipments are expected to reach nearly one billion units this year—has reverberated across the technology landscape, crimping everything from personal-computer demand to music-player sales. The impact has been especially pronounced with digital cameras and portable game machines, where Canon and Nintendo are the biggest competitors. "Cellphones are cloaked mobile-gaming devices that you always have in your pocket," said Serkan Toto, a Tokyo-based mobile-games consultant. "You haven't seen anything yet.". . ."



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Spaceport.io team moves to Facebook

Facebook acquires team, but not technology, of Spaceport.io

Mobile Game Engine: "After looking at Facebook’s mission of building best-in-class mobile experiences, as well as much internal discussion with my co-founder and mentor and YouWeb Incubator founder Peter Relan, our team saw a huge potential in working more closely with Facebook. With that said, today we’re announcing that the Spaceport.io team will move as a team to Facebook to make an even larger impact on the mobile world. Meanwhile the Spaceport platform will continue to be in capable hands supported by my co-founder Peter Relan and his YouWeb team. Facebook will not be acquiring the technology itself, so developers can continue to build and create apps, games, and content unimpeded and with confidence that Spaceport will be around and fully supported for some time to come."


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