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Publishing giant also releasing new Facebook games based on TV series CSI and House
Read More »Film tie-ins come to iOS with new Timberlake flick
Regency Picture's upcoming movie 'In Time' cross-promoted with iPhone game
Read More »Girl with cerebral palsy gets £21k dev money
iPhone app helps fund operation that could make Grace Windram walk for the first time
Read More »App Store craze Whale Trail ‘cost £150k’
Game generates nearly £20,000 net sales in first four days
Read More »Steve Jobs vowed to "destroy Android"
Apple’s visionary co-founder Steve Jobs swore he would spend all of his company’s $40 billion to annihilate Google’s rival smartphone operating system. The technology magnate’s hatred of Android is laid bare in a forthcoming official biography. Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android as "grand theft" of his …
Read More »Batman: Arkham City gets companion iOS app
An official Batman: Arkham City app has been released merging the full game with the iOS platform. The app, developed by Dorling Kindersley, provides users with an interactive map with locations of the game’s 350 collectables and riddles via their mobile. The App Store page calls it the perfect digital …
Read More »Arkham City app to accompany console game
New iPhone app tracks game's collectables via an interactive map
Read More »Apple enjoys huge profit surge
The world’s biggest tech firm, Apple, has seen profits surge by $2bn to 6.62bn for its last financial quarter – a new record for the company. However, analysts have still conspired to paint a gloomy picture, claiming that revenues of $28.3bn were lower than expected. It’s the first time in …
Read More »Now Professor Layton is heading to iOS
One of the most cherished titles in Nintendo’s portable arsenal has announced its move into the iOS market while Studio Ghibli’s beautiful RPG Ni No Kuni has been confirmed for the West. Japanese development giant Level-5 has revealed that a new entry in the Professor Layton series is in development …
Read More »iOS5 release leads to internet traffic surge
The release of the newest operating system for the iPhone and iPad early yesterday evening lead to a surge in European internet traffic. Following the release of iOS 5 at around 6:00pm last night, UK net usage increased by around 200Gb per second, effectively adding around a fifth to the …
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