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Read More »Game of War dev Machine Zone worth $3bn – report
US mobile studio Machine Zone is currently wrapping up a new round of fundraising that will value the developer at more than $3bn, a new report claims. Sources with knowledge of the business told The Wall Street Journallast week that the company is projecting $600m in revenue this year alone. …
Read More »Google Play downloads outnumber iOS by 60%
Android downloads jump by 15% in second quarter of 2014
Read More »Does Kinect-style motion control work on mobile?
We speak to X-TECH founder Arman Atoyan about how full-body motion control works on smartphones and tablets
Read More »Yes, you can be allergic to iPads
A child in America has been diagnosed as allergic to Apple’s first-gen iPad. Areportin the American Journal of Paediatrics has suggested that the Nickel in the iPad caused an eleven-year-old to suffer persistent and severe rashes. It explained how dermatologists sought out Nickel around the child’s environment after discovering he …
Read More »Mind Candy’s Michael Acton Smith standing down as CEO
Mind Candy CEO Michael Acton Smith is stepping aside to pave the way for a new leader so he can return to something more akin to his original role. The founder of the Moshi Monsters firm has revealed he will be moving to a creative leadership position, with COO and …
Read More »Four out of five App Store apps aren’t visible – report
Apps that have no visibility at all – or zombie apps” – make up 80 per cent of Apple’s App Store library, new research from Adjust shows. Joystiq reports on the mobile analytics firm’s findings, which defines app visibility as ranking on any of the 39,171 App Store top lists …
Read More »The six-year-old Apple App Store in numbers
Apple’s App Store has reached the ripe old age of six, and as of right now contains some 1,252,777 apps. A further 578,000 will be added in the next 12 months, too. That’s according to Adjust’s Birth, Life and Death of an App report, which reckons that there were 453,902 …
Read More »Games make up 85 per cent of top grossing apps on iOS and Android
Nearly 85 per cent of the top 50 grossing apps on Apple’s app store and Android’s Google Play shop, a new study claims. Findings from a Midia Research survey published by The Guardian came up with the figure from app stores in US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. …
Read More »BlazBlue: BattleCards heading to iOS this fall
Fighting franchise BlazBlue is heading to iPhones and iPads later this year in the form of a card game, Aksys Games has announced. Siliconera reports the publisher unveiled BlazBlue: Battle Cards for iOS during a presentation this past weekend at Anime Expo 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The game features …
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