More than 2.5 million PC users have picked up a copy of Minecraft to date. The sales achievement was revealed by the game’s creator Markus Persson via Twitter, where he said: 2.5 million sales! That’s as much as Diablo 1 and Far Cry, according to Wikipedia.” The news comes just …
Read More »Why in-app billing won’t solve Android issues
This is the first of a series of articles from MoMinis to coincide with the launch of its $15,000 Mobile Game Development Contest – GameCast 2011. Find out more about the contest here. Just a few weeks ago Google launched in-app billing in the Android Market. In theory, it’s great. …
Read More »E3 2011: OnLive ready for iPad and Android
OnLive has announced the OnLive Player App to bring cloud gaming to tablets and smartphones. The app, which is due to arrive this autumn, will enable streamed play of virtually all” OnLive games on iPad and Android tablets. It will support both touch control and OnLive’s own Universal Motion Controller. …
Read More »OnLive opens to Apple and Android devices
E3 2011: Cloud gaming service coming to tablets and smartphones
Read More »100m downloads vaults Backflip to mobile cloud-9
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Read More »More emulators pulled from Android Market
Google has removed a series of console emulators by developer Yong Zhang from the Android Market, while also revoking his developer privileges. The apps includeNesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid and Gameboid,some of which had been riding high in the Android Market charts for months as paid apps. According to …
Read More »Android fortification begins after security scare
Automatic fix to be issued soon; â??No action from users neededâ??, firm says
Read More »Security flaw ‘affects 99% of Android devices’
Google mobile operating system can send unencrypted personal data, study claims
Read More »Real shows versus virtual shows
E3 is approaching fast, but can the biggest games show on earth cover the emerging game markets?
Read More »PopCap agrees Amazon exclusivity deal
PopCap will host its first two Android games exclusively on the Amazon App Store for 14 days, the company has said. The deal will see the release of PopCap title Chuzzle on Amazon’s mobile store until May 30th. Later in the month, the Android edition of Plants vs Zombies will …
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