Blizzard’s popular digital card game Hearthsone: Heroes of Warcraft has exited beta. The free-to-play title is now available across PC and Mac, whilst an iPad edition will launch soon. Blizzard has also revealed iPhone, Android and Windows tablet versions of Hearthstone are currently in development and will receive a future …
Read More »Apple posts record iPhone and iPad sales, but is still outpaced by Samsung
51m iPhones and 26m iPads were sold by Apple in Q4 2013. Both numbers are record-breaking for the firm, which in the same period a year before sold 47.8m iPhones and 22.9m iPads. The sales led to revenue of $57.6bn and net profit of $13.1bn – which was flat –for …
Read More »Surgeon Simulator iPad version to include dentist visit
Indie developer Bossa Studios’ first-person operation game Surgeon Simulator is heading to iPad with a new, likely grisly, dentistry mode. Teased as Surgeon Simulator – Shh, I Dentist Now, the new mode will have you botching procedures and operations on some unfortunate individual’s mouth (as opposed to the head and …
Read More »Ridiculous Fishing and Badland named games of the year on App Store
Premium titles lead Editors picks for iPhone and iPad
Read More »Ridiculous Fishing and Badland named as Apple’s Games of the Year
Apple has named its editorial and commercial Games of the Year on iTunes. The editorial picks are Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing as its iPhone pick with Simogo’s experimental Device 6 and PopCap’s Plants vs Zombies 2 as the runners up. In the iPad category Frogmind’s Badlands was named as Apple’s pick …
Read More »Apple posts first earnings decline in 11 years
For the first time in 11 years Apple has posted an annual decline in earnings. Profits for its most recent financial year came in at $37bn, down from $42bn the year before. Revenue for the year hit $171bn, up from last year’s $157bn. Despite this, fourth quarter profit was ahead …
Read More »Apple unveils iPad Air alongside new iPad mini
Both models have new 64-bit A7 chip, retina display
Read More »Unity gets iOS game controller support
Developers also able to implement gamepad API in older versions of iPhone and iPad OS
Read More »New iPad mini to debut at Apple event
Fresh iPad expected along with more details on OS X Mavericks and the new Mac Pro
Read More »Ensemble founder Bruce Shelley joins Shenandoah Studios
Strategy games veteran heads to Drive on Moscow developer
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