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The Remastered version of Tim Schafer’s classic adventure game Grim Fandango is out now for iOS and Android devices. Grim Fandango Remastered is launching on both iOS and Android, and will set mobile gamers back 7.99. This follows the title coming to PlayStation 4 and PC earlier this year, and …
Read More »Hearthstone hits 30m players
Free-to-play collectible card game Hearthstone has registered 30m players, Blizzard has revealed. The company announced the news via its Twitter account earlier today: "BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair!" Blizzard’s statement would seem to debunkYahoo editor …
Read More »Jurassic World: The Game stomps onto iOS
Remember when every big summer movie would get an accompanying triple-A action console game? In the modern games industry, things are very different. Canadian mobile developer Ludia, whose previous titles include Jurassic Park Builder, has released Jurassic World: The Game on iOS. It’s a card battler, with players hatching and …
Read More »Microsoft details plans to bring iOS and Android apps to Windows 10
Subsystems and Objective-C compiler will help mobile devs bring their titles to new operating system
Read More »Microsoft opens door for devs to port iOS and Android apps to Windows
Microsoft has extended an open invitation to mobile developers to port iOS and Android apps to Windows and sell them via the Windows Store. Gamasutra reports on the announcement at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, currently taking place in San Francisco. The firm is introducing new software development kits designed to …
Read More »Dev quits iOS, says Apple ‘doesn’t care’
Indie developer Jeff Vogel will no longer make games for iOS, criticising Apple for its apathy with regards to the problems the firm causes for developers. Vogel recently released a brand new role-playing game Avernum 2 for iOS but pulled it just a few days later, now claiming he will …
Read More »Jeff Vogel abandons iOS because ‘Apple doesn’t care’
Problems with latest release lead long-running indie developer to shun Apple’s mobile platform
Read More »Capcom reveals Ghostbusters Puzzle Fighter for iOS
The latest Ghostbusters game is coming to iOS in the form of a puzzle-card game-RPG mashup. Ghostbusters Puzzle Fighter, due out in June, will be developed by Beeline, the studio behind the freemium Ghostbusters mobile game released back in 2013. Despite embracing the moniker of Capcom’s popular Street Fighter-tile-matching hybrid …
Read More »Free-to-play EA Sports UFC launches worldwide on iOS, Android
A mobile edition of EA Sports UFC is now available as a free-to-play offering on Android and iOS. EA soft-launched the game earlier this year in Canada, Russia, Singapore, and South Korea – racking up 2m downloads ahead of this week’s worldwide launch. EA Sports UFC PS4 and Xbox One …
Read More »Halo: Spartan Strike launches on Steam, iOS, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone
343 Industries and Vanguard Games’ twin-stick shooter Halo: Spartan Strike has launched on Windows PC, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone and – somewhat unexpectedly – iOS. The PC version is available now via Steam, while the Windows 8.1 release can be had on the Windows Store. Meanwhile, mobile editions can be …
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