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Legendary game designer shows off aptly-titled Super Mario Run at Apple’s iPhone 7 reveal event
Read More »Miyamoto reveals Super Mario Run at Apple iPhone 7 event
Is there a more telling sign of the times than Shigeru Miyamoto taking to the stage at an Apple event to announce a new Mario platform game for smartphones? As unlikely as it sounds, that’s precisely what happened last night. Super Mario Run is coming exclusively to iOS. A Mario …
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 »UK mobile games have the best ARPU in Europe (but they’re still behind the US and Japan)
App Annie report finds that US devs are more than twice as successful at monetising mobile games than British creators, with Japanese makers achieving returns six times higher
Read More »2017 iPhone will have curved edge display, reports claim
Next month’s iPhone 7 reveal is expected to have little in the way of surprise, but 2017 sounds as if it could be a totally different story. Nikkei Asian Review reports that three handsets are already being lined up for 2017 – one with a 4.7 inch screen, one with …
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 »iPhone sales fall for second consecutive quarter
Having declined for the first time ever in the first quarter of the year, Apple’s smartphone has repeated the feat in the company’s following quarter. 40.4m iPhone were sold in Apple’s Q3, down 15 per cent, although this was slightly ahead of some expectations. The company expects another decline in …
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
Read More »iPhone sales fall for the first time, leading to revenue dip
For the first time ever, Apple has seen a year-on-year decline in quarterly iPhone sales. The blow has been accompanied by a decline in revenues for the first time since 2003. For the quarter ending March 26th, Apple sold 51.2m iPhones. That’s well down on the 10m sold in the …
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