Fantasy football is kinda lame because you, generally, have to do most of the busy work from your main computer instead of something convenient, like, say, an app. Drafting in particular usually always has to be done on a rig, making you to have to put up camp at home base instead of enjoying your incredibly busy life. Good news, though: Yahoo has just added mobile drafting to its wicked popular fantasy football app (Free). Now, you can draft wherever you are.
Today, the Yahoo! Fantasy Sports mobile team is proud to share some news. We’re launching the 2013 Fantasy Sports app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android smartphones, with a new design and lots of great new features. Front and center is what you’ve all been asking for — mobile drafting!
We’re letting you know about this, btw, because it sure seems like the roster side of football games on iPhone and iPad sure have become the main selling point for the various franchises. Just look at what Madden became this year — it wasn’t so much a simulation as it was a roster builder.
[Neither here nor there I guess, but Social was pulled from the App Store. EA is shutting it down officially on September 2nd, according to this post on its web site. We’re thinking it got yanked in March specifically, since that was the last sign of activity from the game’s Facebook page. If you were a fan of it, maybe this app’s new functionality will appeal to you on a similar level.]
The NFL season starts this September, by the way. But, I don’t know why you’re going to bother watching though. The Colts are certain to run the table and destroy everyone this year. Donald Brown will also win the MVP.
[via MacRumors]
I had it on my Windows machine of the time, and as much as I liked the look and feel, the keyboard/mouse ergonomics never quite clicked with me. I think it could be nice on tablets if they can figure out selection vs rotation. It definitely seems possible.
I agree. For some reason the keyboard and mouse controls for Homeworld are some of the only controls that have stuck with me over they years. Ill reinstall Homeworld occasionally and start playing and remember all the controls like clockwork. Not sure why :). I could totally see the game working on touchscreen no problem.
Extremely super easy. 1 touch == selection boxes, 2 finger pinch spread == zoom, 3-4 finger swipe == adjust camera.
And BOOM! You ruined the perfect game.
GG
Glad we're getting these awesome classics on ios. Just waiting on that Freespace 2 port someday, if ever.
My word... that would be fantastic! Especially with the forthcoming controllers.
I like the cut of your gib, sir.
Wow. I never thought labour Freespace 2 on a mobile platform. Could be absolutely amazing!
Hmm cool , now Warcraft PLEASE ;)))))))))
Why are they just "thinking" about it , Homeworld can work on touchscreens as already demonstrated in Kickstarter campaign with guys who wanted to acquire rights for game ( failed short of money though ) and if they want bags of money it should be ported to iOS asap, it can bring them same , if not bigger amount of money than Steam anyway.
Awesome.
I only played the sequel Homeworld 2 and rocked my world.
Would like to see how this pans out.
Though I suspect it would be a iPad exclusive game. Either way, Excited I am.
Please port these awesome games over to iOS! I would purchase these games and the expansion packs in a heartbeat...
Plz plz plz... Do it! 10 bucks? I'm in! 20 bucks? I'm still in! :D
They'll make dollars over dollars!
..... and pounds :)
I can think of a good 20 people that would buy this if they did it. Myself included. Most classic and epic space rts there was. I play galactic conflict to get my homeworld fix and it juste doesnt suffice.
All these developments with the Homeworld franchise lately is really getting me excited. Remakes of the original and sequel would be awesome. Moving it to mobile as well would be absolutely brilliant. I hope to see a modern sequel on a new engine as well :).
I always hoped the series would get to the point where ship damage was much more detailed. I want to see ion cannons ripping open the hulls of large ships and people flying out of the hull breach and so on. That would be so freaking awesome!
Gripped on all this news! Even if it is just a tweet.
Oh man...what I wouldn't do. Classic RTS games would be so much fun on iPad, and Homeworld really is one of the all-time greats. I wonder if they'll tweak the mission layout at all...these games were notoriously hard since it was so easy to end up with less of a fleet than what you'd really need for later missions, and there's no way to correct that other than loading a save from a previous mission - the save slots required for classic-style Homeworld might be tricky on iOS - or starting the whole game over. This lead to much more limited strategy options than what I, and many others would have liked. I don't see modern gamers being too keen on hopping back three or four missions to build a better fleet, either. Not that I wouldn't play it through on iPad one way or another, of course. :)
More of this sort of thing, please!
Wow, lot of memories from that game. Bring it on!
I'd pay in kitten souls for a port of that! At the time it came out it was revolutionary in that it was a true three dimension RTS that demanded that you think strategically in every vertices. Giving it touch controls seems almost common sense and the most natural control scheme to implement with this game, though I worry as to how they can deal with the minutiae of hotkeys that while not necessary are very helpful...
The galactic backgrounds in these games are STILL one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in any computer game... I remember stopping and staring at them for hours on my old PC with the mothership floating in endless space .... Wow great memories... If I can own these games in my pocket on my iPhone it may just bring a tear to my eye...
I absolutely loved Homeworld! PLEASE bring it to ipad. I'll pay whatever you want. Make it a full price game no IAP's and it would sell for minimum $20.
So when we getting Arkham Series ported :D. No? No? Ok.
They also have "been thinking about" putting Borderlands 2 on the Vita. And much as I play my iOS devices more than anything else as of late (only free time is train commute time from Yokohama to Shibuya) I would consider any distraction from porting the best game ever to a portable device which could totally handle it the worst thing ever to happen in the history of this universe.
One of my 'best games ever' list..
Watchlisted and hoping for a stealth release as it happened with KOTOR
God I hope this game comes out (of the closet.JOKE!!!) for us on iOS.
Loved this on the PC years ago.
When they first purchased the licence during the THQ they did say that tablet builds would be in the future for this franchise and this "new" news just adds more to it. :)