Tag Archives: app store

This year’s most popular iPhone apps have been revealed – and the majority are games. Angry Birds has become the most popular paid-for iPhone app of 2010, while Facebook was the most downloaded free app. Paper Toss and Angry Birds Lite were the most popular free-to-download games, while Doodle Jump, …

Despite the likes of EA, Capcom and Ubisoft continue to enjoy growing success in sectors such as the App Store and Facebook, publishing giant Activision has said it has no intentions of entering either space. We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games,” chief …

Twelve months after Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada predicted the demise of physical media, another games industry stalwart has declared that the days of packaged games are numbered. John Carmack, one of the most respected and longstanding game programmers in the world, believes digital distribution is the natural and inevitable …

The App Store model will reign, says id Softwareâ??s star programmer

For a brief period yesterday iPhone and iPad owners were briefly able to download what to all intents and purposes was a functional portable version of smash indie PC hit Minecraft. Called Minecrafted, Gizmodo reports that the title was built without code or content from the original” but boasted more …

Industry veteran partners with EU indie to make Unity-built iPad title

Day one sales numbers pegged at just 40,000 units as Microsoft faces uphill battle in competitive smartphone sector

Up-and-coming social and casual games studio Zattikka has announced the launch of Mr Bean: Out of Control. The iPhone and iPad game is the first in a series of downloadable distractions based on the classic slapstick character portrayed by Rowan Atkinson. It is available now on the App Store. In …

British mobile studio Tag Games sends â??lifestyleâ?? app to top of charts

Discoverability issue not unique to Appleâ??s online shop, says GameSpot exec