Mobile

Haven’t we been here before? The Daily Mail has today run yet another story of a child racking up a overdraft-smashing bill on a free-to-play iOS title. This time it’s The Simpsons Tapped out, in which eight-year-old Theo Rowland-Fry spent 980 on virtual donuts. It was only when my wife …

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Market for used games may not disappear with physical media

Developers to receive 100 per cent of revenues for six months

Mobile games companies and more already signed up to show off their smarts

Zynga-onwed social game Draw Something has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its release. The mobile phenomenon was released last year and rapidly rose to popularity, quickly passing the 50m downloads mark within a few months. Draw Something saw its active user numbers dip shortly after, but has …

Security firm suggests code for smartphone apps the target of attack

Cloud gaming on Sonyâ??s next generation machine could enable cross-platform play

Fiscal year 2012 shows 64% growth for mobile publisher

Touchscreen need not play second fiddle to physical controls in the first person shooter sector, DeNA’s Ben Cousins argues. And the former exec intends to prove it with upcoming release The Drowning. The game will shun virtual joystick controls in favour of a gesture-based affair. Shooting is handled by the …