EA Mobile Announces The Simpsons: Minutes To Meltdown Game
With the world premiere of The Simpsons Movie less than a week away, EA Mobile has announced The Simpsons: Minutes To Meltdown game for your mobile phone. Tag along with Homer as he races through...
View ArticleN-Gage Still Exists, I-play Offering New Games
When was the last time you saw anyone with a Nokia N-Gage? I’m pretty sure the last time I saw one was in 2003 at the Cingular AT&T store. I actually forgot they even existed until about 15...
View ArticleInterview with John Carmack, 'id Mobile' coming soon
Interesting interview with John Carmack over on GameDaily.com if you’re old enough to remember when Wolfenstein and Doom came out. I remember buying a $5 demo of Doom at an Egghead Software store....
View ArticleNew mobile ‘Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass’ game
Guitar Hero addicts now have another title to tame the shakes in “Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass” for mobile phones. The game is similar to past mobile GH offerings except that this time, “there is...
View ArticleJapanese Social Mobile Games Company DeNA On Track To Top $1 Billion In Revenue
The Japanese gaming company DeNA, which is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, reported robust first quarter earnings today. For its fiscal first quarter DeNA’s revenue reached $279 million, up 175%...
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Heyzap Brings Location Awareness And Netflix-Style Recommendations To Mobile...
Heyzap, the social discovery platform for mobile and online games, has been hard at work adding pieces to its mobile experience. The startup recently brought check-ins to its mobile platform, allowing...
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Chartboost Launches New Direct-Deal Marketplace For Mobile Game Publishers
New direct-deal advertising marketplace Chartboost launches today, allowing mobile game developers to use cross-promotion techniques to increase the size of their game’s user base, and therefore, its...
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W3i Announces $10 Million Marketing Fund For Indie Game Developers
W3i, a monetization and distribution network for mobile app developers, is announcing the launch of a new $10 million “AppX Game Developer Marketing Fund” at this week’s AppNation conference in San...
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Angry Birds Space Lands At Last
Bird-lovers and pig-haters, today is your lucky day: Rovio has finally pushed the button on the launch of its newest installation of its hugely successful Angry Birds franchise: Angry Birds Space. The...
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Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed
The magic of mobile games is that they can be played anywhere, but it turns out that quite a lot of us are more than happy to play them when not on the move, according to a new survey from mobile...
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Rovio’s Big Year: Angry Birds Helps Gaming Company Soar To $106M In Sales,...
We all know what a wild success the Angry Birds franchise has been for Rovio, with the best-selling mobile games spawning cookbooks, toys and much more besides. Today the company revealed just what...
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Angry Birds Catapults Itself To One Billion Downloads
A little footnote — no, actually, a big footnote — to Rovio’s news earlier this week that revenues had increased by more than tenfold in 2011: the games developer says that its Angry Birds games have...
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Tapjoy Launches $5M Fund To Invest In Mobile Game Development In Asia
Mobile ad and monetization platform Tapjoy is announcing a new $5 million fund – the “Tapjoy Asia Fund” – which aims to support development and marketing of free-to-play mobile games on both iOS and...
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Wedge Buster Lands $2.2M From Drew Brees, Rob Dyrdek & Others To Build The...
Mobile and social gaming have exploded in popularity over the last few years and both are quickly becoming multi-billion dollar industries. With an estimated 35 million players in the U.S., fantasy...
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Not Safe. Why Mobile Social Games Are Just As Vulnerable As Zynga
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You...
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With Curiosity, Peter Molyneux Explores Whether A Cube Can Capture The...
Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of classics like Black & White and Fable, has taken his first foray into mobile today with Curiosity, an app for iOS and Android devices that asks...
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Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again?
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You...
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What Games Are: Here Come “Local” Mobile Games
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You...
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Applicasa Raises $1 Million To Help Mobile Game Developers Manage Virtual...
Applicasa, a Tel Aviv-based company which got its start as a mobile backend service provider competing with Parse, Kinvey, StackMob and others before shifting into mobile game management, has raised a...
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Mailbox’s Virtual Queue Succeeds In The Waiting Game Where Peter Molyneux’s...
Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was released in beta this week, currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing. That’s according to the...
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