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Intel Developer Blog: How you can use Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers to analyse and optimise your game
Read More »Award-winning mobile game 80 Days sets sail for PC later this month
Hit iOS and Android title 80 Days is coming to PC and Mac in an expanded and revamped form. Inspired by the iconic Jules Verne novel Around The World In Eighty Days (rather than the god-awful 2004 Steve Coogan/Jackie Chan movie effort), from which it takes its moniker, 80 Days …
Read More »Games absent from Top 25 US mobile apps chart – report
New data revealing the top 25 most popular mobile apps in the US for June 2015 shows Facebook out in front, while games are no where to be found. Gamasutrareports on new data from analytics company ComScore, which reveals not one game made the list. The firm attributes the lack …
Read More »Mobile game Pokémon Go to bring pocket monsters into the real world via GPS
A new app claims to finally achieve the dream of every child of the 1990s: make the world of Pokmon a reality. Of course, having an electric mouse and psychic ghosts run around the streets of London is a little outside the realm of possibility, but free mobile game Pokmon …
Read More »Star Wars: Uprising is the first game sequel to Return of the Jedi, and it’s out this week
Before The Force Awakens hits cinema screens later this year, the Star Wars universe is about to expand thanks to a new mobile game. Star Wars: Uprising is a title for iOS and Android due out this Thursday, September 10th, that continues the story left off at the end of …
Read More »Pokemon Shuffle launches on mobile platforms
The Pokemon Company and Nintendo’s free-to-play puzzle game Pokemon Shuffle is out now for iOS and Android devices. Nintendo had made good on its promise to bring the game to mobile devices prior to the end of the year, with the title available to download on theApp StoreandGoogle Play. Pokemon …
Read More »Learn how to use Cocos2d-x to make cross-platform apps
Intel Developer Blog: A short tutorial showing you how to get started with compiling a Cocos2d-x demo to run on Android and Windows
Read More »Galak-Z heading to mobile devices in 2016
PS4 indie release Galak-Z will come to iOS and Android devices in 2016, developer 17-Bit and publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America have announced. The mobile release will swap out the game’s subtitle from Galak-Z: The Dimensional to Galak-Z: Variant Mobile. The port will be optimized for the new platforms with …
Read More »Pac-Mac 256 arrives on smartphones, along with an interesting IAP system
Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Hipster Whale have finally released the long-awaited Pac-Man 256 on smartphones. The game, from the studio behind the extremely popular Crossy Road, is named after the infamous level 256 glitch in the original Pac-Man. Due to some technical peculiarities of that title, the 8-bit level …
Read More »Monster Strike bringing in $4.2m a day
Japanese studio Mixi’s mobile co-op action RPG Monster Strike made $4.2m a day during its most recent quarter, according to the developer’s latest financial results. Industry analystDr. Serkan Totorevealed Mixi saw a total of $378m in sales for the title’s iOS and Android versions between April 1stand June 30th. The …
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