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Nearly half of us in the UK have dropped our mobile phone down the toilet, it is claimed. 31 per cent of handset damage is liquid-based, and men appear to be the most clumsy users. Of the water damage victims 73 per cent were male while 27 per cent were …
Read More »New ARM smartphone chip supports DirectX 11
Mobile processor could bring 'console quality graphics' to smartphones
Read More »Digital ‘will be worth $50 billion by 2016’
Mobile gaming to triple in value to more than $17.5 billion, says Analyst firm
Read More »Adobe drops mobile Flash development
A leaked email from Adobe appears to signal that the company is to quit development of its Flash player plug-in for mobile devices. The news has lead to many pundits proclaiming that this is the first move toward an end for Flash on the internet, as was famously predicted by …
Read More »Gameloft reports record third quarter sales of $56m
Financial results show 17 per cent growth from previous year
Read More »US mobile dev opens London studio
'London has a large and diverse business hub with world-class developers' says Babaroga exec
Read More »Investments awarded to seven Android devs in Asia
Beneficiaries to receive between $250,000 and $5 million each
Read More »EA’s Origin draws 5m users
More than five million gamers use EA’s online download platform Origin every day, says the publisher’s COO Peter Moore. The former EA Sports boss told Screen Play about the service after being heckled at the EB Games Expo in Australia last weekend by one member of the audience. We’re only …
Read More »Zynga to establish new standalone platform
Social gaming powerhouse Zynga has unveiled plans to take its games beyond Facebook to a dedicated online portal. Currently titled Zynga Direct, the new platform will be a standalone community separate from Facebook that will act as a hub for all of the company’s titles, according to Gamasutra. It claims …
Read More »Sony prices Vita games as high as PS3 titles
£50 for triple-A mobile releases, while digital editions get a 20 per cent discount
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