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UK games publisher Chillingo has announced that its latest iOS title, Cut The Rope, has sold one million copies in ten days since launch. The company is claiming that the physics-based puzzler is thus the fastest selling title yet on Apple’s App Store. Cut The Rope has topped App Store …
Read More »Venus Williams signs up to Sports Active 2
Following its signing of football legend and global celebrity icon David Beckham to front its promotional campaign for EA Sports Active 2 in the UK and Europe, EA has announced that tennis star Venus Williams is to act as brand ambassador for the US campaign. The game, which is in …
Read More »Bad Company 2 heading to iPhone
EA Mobile has confirmed an iPhone and iPod Touch release for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The version will include many of the hallmarks the series has become most noted for – realistic military simulation, controllable vehicles and, hopefully at least, destructible environments, though the latter has not been explicitly confirmed. …
Read More »Dead Rising shuffles to iPhone
Having enjoyed great success with the iPhone adaptation of survival horror title Resident Evil 4, Capcom has confirmed that it is to port fellow zombie IP Dead Rising to Apple’s devices. IGN reports that the game follows a similar template to the console titles – that is, players are tasked …
Read More »Apple launches game website
A new section of the Apple website dedicated to video games has gone live. The hub features a web store where users can buy Mac games including StarCraft II, Modern Warfare and The Sims 3. Visitors can also download demons and updates, view the latest trailers and read a selection …
Read More »Jobs: iPod Touch outsells DS and PSP combined
Apple claims handheld dominance; Game Center arriving next week; 120m iOS devices shipped
Read More »iPod outsells DS and PSP combined
Steve Jobs has used tonight’s iPod-centric press gathering to signal a new era in portable gaming – and it’s one that the outspoken Apple CEO claims complete ownership of. In a sharp change of tact from his previously reserved approach to the handheld gaming sector, a bolshy Steve Jobs claimed …
Read More »Carnival Games hits iPhone
Having proven to be one of the most successful third-party titles on the Wii and DS, publisher 2K Games has released a version of Carnival Games on iPhone and iPod Touch. Available now for 2.39 on the Apple iStore, the title comes with ten mini-games including Bumper Boats, Star Shootout, …
Read More »Gamestation app hits iTunes
Having already enjoyed success with its GAME app, retailer GAME Group has gone live with a Gamestation app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The download gives users the ability browse through the chain’s top selling games, search for titles or even pre-order games. Screen shots, user reviews and trailers are …
Read More »Apple man ‘pushed out’ after tech errors
Has antennagate cost Mark Papermaster his job in charge of iPhone design?
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