{"id":55634,"date":"2013-06-25T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55634"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T07:49:08","slug":"microsoft-porting-xbox-pc-games-to-apple-android-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55634-microsoft-porting-xbox-pc-games-to-apple-android-phones","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft porting Xbox, PC games to Apple, Android phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contrary to their earlier report, Reuters is now indicating that the deal between Microsoft and KLab is only to bring Age of Empires to iOS and Android, and no other games are included in the deal.<\/p>\n

The historical strategy game will be released worldwide in English for iPhones and <\/a>Android-based phones, “with plans to release the game in other languages and on a Windows Phone in the future,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Original story<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a Reuters report citing the Nikkei, Microsoft will be offering its console and computer game franchises on iPhone and Android smartphones during this fiscal year. A deal with Japanese smartphone game maker KLab Inc has been made to license and port the titles.<\/p>\n

It will be safe to assume that the games will work on any compatible iOS and and Android tablet PC devices as well.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s “Age of the Empires” will be the first available as a free-to-play game, released worldwide by the end of the fiscal year 2013, with more titles to follow.<\/p>\n

Source: MyBroadband<\/a><\/h6>\n

More portable gaming news<\/h3>\n

Crytek has an iOS tactical game in the works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deus Ex: The Fall reveal dashes our hopes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Plants vs Zombies 2 free-to-play, release date revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Halo: Spartan Assault heading to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

App Store games in SA one step closer to reality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft will offer its console and computer games for Apple’s iPhone and other smartphone platforms this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":55635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[31,947,959,531,91,243],"class_list":["post-55634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55636,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions\/55636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}