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Group opens dedicated smartphone app studio
Read More »Android to unlock in-app purchase system
Google smartphone devs can soon thrive from free-to-play
Read More »Windows Phone app catalogue ‘the fastest growing’
Around 2,500 games available on the Microsoft platform, data suggests
Read More »Bleszinski: Dual-analogue isn’t for touch-screens
Gears Of War designer praises PSP2 legacy control layout
Read More »Amazon wins Angry Birds Rio exclusivity deal
Rovio's next game won't appear on Android Market, retailer claims
Read More »Devs paid to move iPhone games to Android
$100 million fund to facilitate smartphone game switch
Read More »Huge European growth for Android
Google’s mobile operating system Android grew 1,580 per cent year-on-year to 7.9m units in 4Q 2010, according to data from IDC. The Western European mobile phone market grew 3.2 per cent year-on-year to this quarter, with shipments of smartphones increasing to 25.6m units, 99.4 per cent higher than in 4Q09. …
Read More »Second studio emerges after Relentless layoffs
New smartphone game outfit 'will remain agile with minimal overheads'
Read More »Viruses plague Google Android
Mobile phone platform Google Android has been hit by over 50 apps with viruses buried within them. The malicious applications – now removed from the Android Marketplace – were duplicates of legitimate apps which had been modified to include viruses. They had been downloaded between 50,000 and 200,000 times. BBC …
Read More »GDC11: ‘Game development is drowning’ – Iwata
Quantity muscles over quality for the likes of Apple and Google, Nintendo president claims
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