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Apple has announced that it sold in excess of 4m iPhone 4S handsets in the device’s first three days of availability. That works out at around 55,555 units per hour, or 926 units per second. It’s also twice as many as iPhone 4 sold in the same period. In addition, …
Read More »Team Fortress 2 players earn $2m via in-game trades
More than $2 million has been generated through Team Fortress 2 microtransactions, Valve has said. The free-to-play shooter allows players to create, buy and sell virtual items to wear during games of deathmatch. The Washington-based Valve said the microtransactions economy generated the $2 million in less than a year since …
Read More »Android apps paraded with new OpenFeint Channel
Studio partners to feature in games hub
Read More »Moshi Monsters’ Lady Goo Goo gagged by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has successfully taken out an injunction against the creator of manufactured character Lady Goo Goo – preventing any music being officially released from the virtual pop star. Goo Goo, created by global kids community site Moshi Monsters, enjoyed around a million views per month on YouTube for would-be …
Read More »iOS5 release leads to internet traffic surge
The release of the newest operating system for the iPhone and iPad early yesterday evening lead to a surge in European internet traffic. Following the release of iOS 5 at around 6:00pm last night, UK net usage increased by around 200Gb per second, effectively adding around a fifth to the …
Read More »Burnout iOS game confirmed
Downloadable Xbox Live and PSN game Burnout Crash will be heading to the iPad and iPhone this year. EA’s Criterion Games studio has ported the top-down car crash game to Apple’s iOS platform. The publisher says it will arrive this holiday season” on iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4. The …
Read More »Apple living-room device could reshape gaming – Newell
The notion of separate platforms 'will disappear' if the iPhone group launches its own TV sets
Read More »Zynga to establish new standalone platform
Social gaming powerhouse Zynga has unveiled plans to take its games beyond Facebook to a dedicated online portal. Currently titled Zynga Direct, the new platform will be a standalone community separate from Facebook that will act as a hub for all of the company’s titles, according to Gamasutra. It claims …
Read More »Android app ‘pirated 2,300% more than iOS edition’
Compatibility of smartphones 'a real nightmare', says Appy exec
Read More »US study dissects iPad user habits and wealth
Comscore data claims the Apple device has driven 97 per cent of tablet traffic in the US
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