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A new colour has been added to the iPhone 7 lineup. Consumers are now able to buy the iPhone 7 in red, as well as the existing colours Jet Black, Black, Silver, Gold and Rose Gold. As is often the way with red tech, it is being launched in conjunction …
Read More »The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Sunless Sea are coming to iOS
Two beloved indie creations are finally getting the mobile treatment. One of them is Edward McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, which has finally landed on iOS yesterday. The Nicalis-published title is priced at 10.99, but doesn’t include expansions Afterbirth (which launched in late 2015) or Afterbirth+ (which released earlier …
Read More »Children’s AR game developer Osmo secures $24m funding round
Company using money to expand into iPhone development
Read More »Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans stealth-launches new title The Trail
Free-to-play adventure game appears on iTunes in the Philippines after two years of development
Read More »iOS developers can now implement paid app subscriptions
Auto-renewal, tiers and up to 85 per cent revenue among the offerings for mobile creators
Read More »3DS sales up over 200 per cent as Pokémon Go phenomenon carries on
In what is becoming a now weekly MCV story, UK sales of 3DS consoles and 3DS Pokmon games continue to rise as the Pokmon Go obsession continues. According to retail sources quoting GfK figures, Nintendo was the No.1 boxed games publisher (both in units and value) last week. The firm …
Read More »App Store developers have made more than $50 billion, Apple reveals
CEO Tim Cook adds that July 2016 saw a record-breaking amount of money earned by devs
Read More »Develop: Brighton Indie Showcase shortlist revealed
Three VR titles and iPad game Twisted Lines join six PC entrants
Read More »Developing for ‘all or nothing’ iOS ended up losing us money, says Jeff Minter
‘Despite excellent reviews and the sheer number of devices out there which you might think make it viable, we couldn’t in any way justify carrying on with it’
Read More »Dev pulls abstract vagina-touching title from App Store after Apple tells it ‘to make a different game’
‘Even if you are not showing it directly, it’s what is simulated – and that is the issue,' Lovable Hat Cult reportedly told by platform holder
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