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Apple has upped the cost of games and other downloads on the App Store platform. Prices for apps increased in several countries – including the UK – and dropped in others. Games like Angry Birds which were previously 59p now cost 69p, while 1.19 apps have become 1.49. Apple reportedly …
Read More »Apple increases baseline App Store prices
Various international prices increase, others drop following platform maintenance
Read More »Free to play titles take charge of Apples App Store
The growing momentum of free to play games is not just taking over the MMO market – it’s also taken control of Apple’s App Store marketplace. TouchArcade has word from the latest Flurry report which shows that free-to-play games now account for 65 per cent of the total revenues from …
Read More »Origin on iOS mirrors Xbox Live feature set
Publisher EA has for the first time detailed exactly how its freshly launched content portal Origin will work on iOS. The system bears more than a passing resemblance to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. And it won’t support Apple’s Game Centre wither, with EA clearly hoping to forge its own network of …
Read More »Apple App Store downloads pass 15bn
Significant gaming force Apple has announced that it’s sector-bossing App Store has now passed the 15bn download milestone worldwide. That’s spread across over 425,000 apps. There are now over 200m iPhone, iPad and iPod in circulation across the globe with the devices officially available in 90 countries. Developers have grossed …
Read More »Apple: App Store passes 15bn downloads milestone
Online store now carries more than 425,000 applications
Read More »Anonymous hacks Apple server
Internet hacker group Anonymous has claimed it has unlawfully obtained information from an Apple web server. The collective released data online via its Twitter page containing the usernames and passwords of 27 customers from one of Apple’s servers. The group also hinted at a bigger attack on the tech giant …
Read More »Android consumers ‘are put off by paying’
Google doesn't have the game genes, and Android is swept by piracy, says panel of mobile game developers
Read More »Bungie’s Marathon coming to iPad
Famed Halo developer Bungie has revealed that a version of 1994 shooter Marathon is to be released on the iPad. The controls will obviously get adapted from the old keyboard and mouse setup, tough will still use virtual on-screen buttons. It’s said that it will run at a steady 30fps. …
Read More »First wave of iPhone 5 speculation arrives
Next Apple phone may feature A5 processor, large touch-screen and unique tapered shell
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