Mobile

Upcoming PC shooter Planetside 2 will adopt a free-to-play model following the long line of MMOs that did so earlier this year. The FPS MMO sequel from Sony Online Entertainment will include free-to-play in some form, but concrete details have yet to be determined, reports VG247. The developer’s studio head …

But younger customers play for longer

Industry predicted to be worth $81 billion by 2016; Physical 'has peaked'

SPY Mouse, the latest iOS game from Flight Control developer and all around success story Firemint, went straight to #1 in Australia. MCV talks to Firemint’s Logan Booker about why: What makes SPY Mouse the successor to Flight Control? With SPY mouse, we really wanted to build on the gameplay …

Unique iPhone app used as tool for console counterpart

Mobile games publisher Gameloft has reported a net profit of €5.3 million (around $7.6m) for the first half of 2011, the same as it reported for the first half of 2010. The company’s revenues rose from €66.6 million to €76.8 million in the same period, so why were net profits …

Paris headquartered mobile games publisher Gameloft is launching a hopeful new revenue model for the Android operating system. The app publisher has begun the Gameloft Club, a subscription model being test-run in the UK. For a rolling cost of 99p each week, users will be able to select a new …

Smartphone group shuts down systems

Tim Cook, the new CEO of tech powerhouse Apple, has for the first time spoken to his new empire. In an email to employees obtained by Ars Technica, Cook praised outgoing CEO Steve Jobs and promised that he would very much stay loyal to the ideals set down by his …

Tim Cook says the iPhone group will continue with Jobs's on-going guidance