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Iconic Russian puzzler Tetris, first developed in 1984, has now achieved 100m paid downloads across all mobile formats since EA Mobile bagged the mobile rights in 2005. It was first made available for mobile by G-Mode in Japan in 2001, so the lifetime sales total is actually even greater than …
Read More »Over $450m lost to iPhone piracy
But is the report based on unreliable data?
Read More »Blackberry backs games
Real oppotunities exist for developers on business platform, says RIM
Read More »Xbox Live coming to Windows Mobile
Microsoft is planning to ramp up its mobile gaming activities, tying Windows Mobile into its Xbox Live community. At least, that’s what it says it’s doing in a job advert for a Principal Program Manager – Live Engagement Job, which was uncovered by MobileTechWorld: "We’re connecting players via the Live …
Read More »OnLive looks to iPhone
The experimental cloud game streaming service OnLive will eventually be available on smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone. Today, at a Wedbush financial conference in New York I showed OnLive running simultaneously on 2 iPhones, a TV, and a computer,” said company founder and CEO Steve Perlman. Writing a blog post …
Read More »Nokia finally gives up on N-Gage
Gaming service to be phased out in 2010 in favour of Ovi Store
Read More »Glu impresses Deloitte
Having seemingly got its business back on track after a tough spell spent adapting to the modern market conditions of the now iPhone-dominated mobile sector, Glu has won acclaim in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 listings. The firm ranked 129th in the report, which outlines the 500 fastest growing technology and …
Read More »Digital Chocolate and EA win at ME Awards
Trip Hawkins’ portable games studio Digital Chocolate and EA Mobile were the big games-related winners at last night’s ME Awards, hosted by MCV’s sister magazine Mobile Entertainment. The ceremony, hosted by Mobile Entertainment magazine, rewards innovation and creativity in the mobile content sector and took place earlier tonight at the …
Read More »New Flash-based platform hits mobiles
GoPlay platform looking for new developers
Read More »Glu loses Euro MD
Glu’s EMEA managing director Frank Keeling has left the company, MCV’s sister site ME has learned. The former Vodafone and RealNetworks exec joined the mobile games publisher in December 2007 to head its European activities, but his role has now been split between EMEA marketing director James Scalpello and EMEA …
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