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Mobile’s increasing dominance of the game industry is over and will be usurped by new technology, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has said. Speaking to AllThingsD, Bushnell said that the industry reinvents itself every five years, and that while mobile had dominated, the next big opportunities for developers to flock to …

Cut The Rope developer focusing on limited number of titles rather than ten-to-20 a year

Iconic game character gets F2P title with new achievements, mazes and scoring objectives

Engine vendor to make available a number of games specifically tailored for devices

Technology enables the deployment of three-dimensional games to native and web app stores

Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen an increase of 2m new accounts since switching to the free-to-play model last November. In a State of the Game blog post, executive producer Jeff Hickman announced the figure – adding that the game’s high capacity servers are teeming with people,” thanks to …

Creative agency Tilting Point has named former PopCap man Giordano Bruno Contestabile as its new VP of product management and revenue. The move brings an end to the exec’s five-year stint at the EA-owned casual games studio, where he most recently served as executive producer to the Bejeweled franchise. Before …

A game called Sweatshop HD has been pulled from the Apple App Store owing to the sensitive nature of its content. Pocket Gamer reports that Apple said it was "uncomfortable selling a game based around the theme of running a sweatshop". The irony, of course, is that Apple itself has …

The North American version of Tera: Rising has pulled in 1.4m new accounts since going free-to-play in February, En Masse Entertainment has announced. The publisher also shares that engagement is up tenfold in terms of max concurrent players after last month’s switch. Along with going free-to-play, the MMO has been …

Mobile development platform provider releases Corona Cloud