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Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …
Read More »iPhone 4 jailbreak arrives, is effortless
Just days after the US Government deemed the ‘jailbreaking’ of mobile handsets to be legal, the first hack for the iPhone 4 has gone live. What will be more worrying for Apple, however, is the ease with which the new hack can be applied. Users don’t even need access to …
Read More »Income nosedives at Capcom
Japanese publisher Capcom has reported income of YEN 216m for the quarter ending June 30th 2010 – a 94.8 per cent drop on the same period in 2009. Net income for the period fell 72.6 per cent year-on-year to just over YEN 1 trillion. Net sales fell 2.4 per cent …
Read More »iPhone jailbreaking legalised
The bad news just keeps coming for Apple. The US Government has ruled that owners of the iPhone are legally able to ‘jailbreak’ their phones, a process that allows then to run unvalidated code of the machines. Owners usually jailbreak iPhones so to run programs not obtained via iTunes. This …
Read More »Game Changers: Channel 4
Alice Taylor discusses C4's Develop Award-winning indie game commissions
Read More »Download the ME iPhone app
The ME iPhone app (iTunes link), from MCV sister-site Mobile Entertainment, distills all the latest content news on the ME website and puts it into the palm of the hand. The app is essential for games companies looking to get ahead in the world of mobile. Its main features include: …
Read More »XBLA Plants vs Zombies gets co-op
PopCap’s downloadable version of Plants vs Zombies for Xbox 360 looks like it will receive new features not seen on the PC or iPhone. The casual strategy title boasts two Xbox 360 achievements that hint the game will include a two-player mode and online multiplayer. The first achievement is given …
Read More »Jobs doesnt understand game development
David Helgason, Unity Technologies CEO, has said that he believes Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t understand the economics of games development.” I think he also said that consumers will decide what they think of them, and they have decided that some of the middleware games – including some of the …
Read More »Pre-owned app heading to iPhone
Fast-growing pre-owned games specialist Game Trading Technologies has lifted the lid on a brand new iPhone app that will allow users to monitor the price of their games collection and easily locate the nearest store where they can trade their titles in. Called GameBook Mobile, the app allows iPhone or …
Read More »â??Mobile gaming will beat consoles within a yearâ??
Develop 2010: Fishlabs CEO predicts big things for the mobile games industry
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