Tag: Android

It seems like only a few weeks since we were musing on the inevitability of Clash of Clans making the jump to Android, and now the inevitable has come to pass. Android gamers, get ready for the genuine article: Supercell's Clash of Clans is now available to download from Google Play.If you've just clicked that link and decided to call me a liar, I won't blame you. While the game is officially on Android now, it's only available in Canada and Finland. Don't panic though - this is the same sort of soft launch we see all the time in mobile games. "The global release of Clash of Clans on Android will come as soon as we are confident that the Android version is of the highest quality," said a moderator on the Supercell forums. "We hope that will be very soon!"In the meantime, sit tight Android users. There are still plenty of clones out there to cut your teeth on, and you'll want all the practice you can before the worldwide launch. iOS gamers have had a year to get ready, and they're just itchin' to raid the competition.

Clash of Clans is huge. It's a monster of a game; the kind of success that other mobile developers could only dream of. It's been the #2 top grossing app for as long as anyone can remember, and before that? It was #1. Strange then, that the game is still an iOS exclusive.But the tides might finally be turning for Android gamers. "You can't be global without being in Asia, and you can't be big in Asia without being on Android," Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen told the Financial Times last month. "I guess that's a long way of saying that we are very actively thinking about it."It's a thought that's long overdue. While Supercell has been hesitant to enter the Google Play storefront, their competitors haven't. Games like Castle Clash, Clash of Lords and Jungle Heat are among the top 25 grossing on Android, and all borrow pretty liberally from Clash of Clans playbook. If you're Supercell, that has to sting a little.Whether due to the frustrating success of copycats or the promise of global domination, it looks like the company has finally set its sights on Android - likely both for Clash of Clans and its popular farming sim, Hay Day. There hasn't been a formal announcement of any kind yet, but with talk like this brewing publicly, it seems to be less a matter of "if" and more a matter of "when."