Mobile

Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia in global mobile web usage

Web analytics company StatCounter reports that Apple is now the leading mobile OEM for global web usage, bagging a 25.9 per cent share in January 2013. The iPhone maker steals the crown from former top spot holder Nokia, which falls to third place with 22.2 per cent, as Samung rubbed …

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Temple Run 2 passes 50m downloads, fastest-growing mobile game to date

Temple Run 2 has become the fastest-growing mobile game to date, surpassing 50m downloads in just under two weeks on iOS and Android. The now record-setting title hit the milestone 22 days ahead of Rovio’s Angry Birds Space across iOS, Android, PC, and Mac. "Temple Run has evolved into something …

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Zynga’s design chief walks

Zynga lost yet another executive today with the departure of Brian Reynolds. The company faced a mass exodus of its leadership last year, and the loss of its head game designer is certainly a poor way to ring in the new year. Reynolds was lead game designer on Firaxis’s Civilization …

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Playjam unveils final GameStick design

Upcoming Kickstarter-backed Android console GameStick has at last been pictured in its final guise. Creator PlayJam has published pictures of the final hardware, which can be seen below. Chief amongst the improvements is a tweak to the form factor to add extended hand grips and the addition of a 32BG …

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