A range of in-app purchases in EA’s mobile titles will be used to collect for wildlife charity WWF over the next week. As part of the collaboration between EA Mobile and WWF, players of specific titles in EA’s mobile catalogue will be able to fundraise for specific animals and ecosystems …
Read More »Japanese mobile firm Mobcast acquires Lumines IP
Japanese smartphone developer Mobcast has purchased the rights to Q Entertainment’s Lumines and Meteos puzzle franchises. Furthermore – as reported by Siliconera– the Tokyo-based studio has already announced it is working on a new mobile entry of the Lumines series for both Android and iOS. Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is …
Read More »The Witcher Battle Arena out on iOS and Android
CD Projekt RED and Fuero Games’ mobile MOBA collaboration The Witcher Battle Arena is now available on iOS and Android devices. Both Apple App and Google Play stores currently carry the free-to-play title. The game features two teams of three competing over conquest points to capture and hold. As far …
Read More »Apple hikes app prices
Minimum cost of a premium game now stands at 79p
Read More »App Store developers generated $10bn in revenue last year
App Store developers combined to generate revenue exceeding $10bn in 2014, Apple has announced. The figure marks a new annual record for Apple’s digital shop, and it brings the cumulative total for developer revenue to more than $25bn since the App Store’s launch in 2008. This year is off to …
Read More »App Store devs generated $10bn in revenue in 2014
Consumers also spend half a billion dollars on New Year's day
Read More »Mobile game usage growth slowed in 2014 – report
Time spent gaming on smartphones and tablets continued its upward trend last year, but at a significantly slower rate compared to 2013. Research from mobile analytics firm Flurry claims 2014 mobile game usage grew 30 per cent from 2013’s total. Not bad in a vacuum, but relatively weak when stacked …
Read More »Just 5% of Monument Valley installs on Android paid for
Developer Ustwo reveals high piracy rates on Android compared to iOS
Read More »Nvidia’s Tegra X1 mobile chip has a teraflop of power
Processor runs Unreal Engine 4 Elemental demo
Read More »2014: The Developers’ Post-Mortem
Notable names discuss the leading trends of an eventful year for games developers
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