Tag Archives: ios

Apple clamps down on clone apps

Apple appears to have deleted a range of App Store games that were found to be infringing on copyright law as well as unethically duplicating popular game designs. The US App Store has removed counterfeit apps such as Plant vs Zombie, Angry Ninja Birds and Temple Jump, according to news …

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iOS apps 3x more likely to crash than Android apps

Mobile app monitoring outfit Crittercism claims that iOS applications crash considerably more often than Android applications. Apple’s iOS 5.01 alone accounted for 28.64 per cent of all application crashes across all iOS and Android mobile devices, asreported by Forbesin a ‘Data dive’ into the Crittercism results. Even normalising for the …

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Cave retreating from shooters? (Bullet) Hell no!

Just last month cult 2D shooter developer Cave suggested it might distance itself from the shooting genre – but those fears appear to have been well and truly quashed. In the weeks that have followed the news the studio has gone on to reveal no less than four brand new …

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Spry Fox sues Yeti Town dev over iOS copyright breach

The critically acclaimed freemium game Triple Town has been flagrantly plagiarised by a rival games studio, according to allegations in a copyright infringement suit. Mobile games group Spry Fox last week launched a lawsuit against casual game studio 6Waves Lolapps, alleging that its latest release – called Yeti Town – …

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