Experts explain difficulties in policing mobile marketplaces
Read More »Bigpoint ‘happy to fail’ in mobile return
CEO says firm will keep iterating until it has mobile games it can be proud of
Read More »Apple ‘actively investigating’ allegedly nude celebrity photo iClould hack
Apple has for the first time commented on the apparent iCloud hack that led to this week’s nude celebrity photo leak. On Sunday night hundreds of pictures of celebrities such as The Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence appeared online, with claims on 4chan saying that they were obtained via a hack …
Read More »ME reveals Top 50 Mobile Innovators 2014
Another Place Productions, Marmalade, Chillingo, DeltaDNA and Guerilla Tea among this year's list of the best UK talent
Read More »Three quarters of UK developers making games for mobile
Less than 20 per cent of studios working on PS3 and Xbox 360; Unity used by 62 per cent of devs
Read More »Tablet gaming revenue to hit $13.3bn by 2019 – report
The tablet gaming market still has plenty of room to grow, according to a new report from market research firm Juniper. Games Industry highlights the company’s new findings, which claim that tablet gaming revenue will reach $13.3bn by 2019. Revenue is expected to hit $3.6bn this year, so Juniper is …
Read More »WWE SuperCard downloaded 1.5m times
Free-to-play mobile trading card game WWE SuperCard has combined for 1.5m downloads between iOS and Android platforms, 2K has announced. The publisher didn’t go into specifics regarding how those downloads are divided up on each platform, but the total between the two was reached in less than two weeks out …
Read More »Amazon acquires game streaming site Twitch for nearly $1bn
Service attracted more than 55 million unique spectators in July
Read More »GungHo sells stake in Supercell
Puzzle and Dragons firm gains $344m as it focuses on emerging markets
Read More »Android claimed 84.7% smartphone sales share in Q2 2014
84.7 per cent of smartphones shipped worldwide in the quarter ending June 2014 used Google’s Android operating system. That’s up from 79.6 per cent in the same quarter a year before, IDC data claims. iOS claimed a market share of 11.7 per cent, down from 13 per cent the year …
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