This is a newly announced Android console developed by games peripheral company Mad Catz. With this extra dimension of iOS game compatibility the GamePop console could prove popular with some people. We don’t use any of Apple’s bits – the developer just gives us the app and we make sure that it’ll run on GamePop.” “From a technology perspective, it uses virtualitzation, but it’s a different kind of virtualization than what we use for example for our PC products,” said BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma. In the announcement detailling the iOS compatibility Bluestacks said that a new technology called ‘Looking Glass’, a virtualisation system that doesn’t use any Apple APIs, lets the Apple iOS software run. The GamePop looks like it will be the first non-Apple device out that will be able to tap into Apple’s huge iOS library. GamePop: iPad and iPhone games on your TV We don’t know much about the GamePop hardware but that your “games will run as fast or faster than they do on a top mobile phone”. However pre-order folk will have to be patient as it’s only in “winter” when the console is expected to be released. This offer remains until the end of June, what happens after that we don’t know. These include over $200 in paid mobile games!” For your fee, as a subscriber, you would get “access to the top games and apps on mobile that you already love like Talking Tom 2, Jetpack Joyride, Kids Shape Puzzle and 500+ more, constantly updated. After 12 months you could cancel your subscription without any kind of fee. When it was first announced we learned that it would not be sold but be given free to subscribers who promised to pay $6.99 per month plus an initial $9.99 shipping. Meanwhile Mad Catz has entered the Android console fray, revealing a Tegra 4 powered prototype box called ‘Project M.O.J.O.’.īluestacks GamePop is an eye-catchingly designed Android console. Now developers Bluestacks has revealed another interesting aspect to its console so it will stand out from the crowd – it will be able to run iOS games. The GamePop console seemed to be simply yet-another-Android-console in development but using a subscription payment model as a differentiator.
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