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Tomorrow, the Angry Birds invade space – but they also have Great Britain in their sights. Insanely popular mobile games developer Rovio has already announced plans to launch anAngry Birds adventure parkin its native Finland, but now it plans to do the same for the UK, according toReuters. It seems …
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Finger-sketch game 'hits 30m downloads with half of its customers playing daily'
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Valuation of tech giant rises by $50 billion in less than three weeks
Read More »Mass Effect 3 Datapad app available on iOS
BioWare has released a new app to assist those who just can’t seem to get enough Mass Effect. The Mass Effect 3 ‘datapad’ is available now for free on the app store, offering interested parties access to extra features and info including codex entries from all three titles in the …
Read More »Current Steam mobile app ‘only phase one’
Valve plans to include viewable library and better screenshot support
Read More »Konami and Rebellion sign up for Zynga Platform
Traditional gaming giants Konami and Rebellion have signed up as partners for the new Zynga Platform. Zynga last week announced its intention to go live with its own content hosting platform, threatening the gaming base enjoyed by Facebook. The move could see the pair bring a host of high-profile core …
Read More »Free Lunch design acquires Dark Nebula
The popular series of iOS games, Dark Nebula, has been acquired by Gothenburg-based outfit Free Lunch Design. With over six million downloads and counting, Dark Nebula creator Anders Hejdenberg believes the acquisition was a natural fit to preserve the legacy of the series. "With a huge fan base and great …
Read More »Epic announces Infinity Blade: Dungeons
Epic has used the iPad 3 Apple press conference to unveil a new game in the Infinity Blade series. Infintiy Blade: Dungeons is set several thousand years before the original Infinity Blade game, which grossed $10 million in its first six months on sale. Just like Apple has raised the …
Read More »iPad 3: What to expect tomorrow
Wednesday March 7th at 6:00pm GMT – that’s when we’ll finally find out what Apple has in store for the third generation of its iPad. There are many sites devoted to nothing but Apple rumours, but for those without a spare two weeks to catch up with every morsel of …
Read More »Will the iPad 3 actually be the iPad HD?
With the expected reveal of the iPad 3 now just five days away, it transpires that there may in fact be no such thing. That’s because new evidence from the darkest corners of the internet suggests that Apple’s new tablet Mac may in fact be called the iPad HD. Pocket-lint …
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