EA has released Peggle Blast – a free-to-play take of PopCap’s Peggle franchise – on iOS and Android. The gameplay largely mirrors Peggle’s standard mechanic of launching pinballs at pegs across a variety of levels. The game utilizes an energy system” for the microtransaction portion. When the player fails to …
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Package for analytics tool available for up to 200,000 MAUs
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The owner of mobile network 3 and telecoms giant BT appear to be on the brink of a battle to acquire either the EE or O2 mobile networks. The surprise news that BT was in talks to acquire O2 – a network it once co-owned but previously sold to Telefonica …
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Yoshiki Okamoto has said that his future lies completely within the realm of mobile game development. The Street Fighter II creator left Capcom in the mid 2000s to found Forsaken Kingdom developer Game Republic. After that closed in 2011 he joined Mixi and subsequently created iOS hit Monster Strike. Not …
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Publisher employing up to 20 staff at new office to develop new games
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XCOM: Enemy Within is now available as a standalone offering on mobile devices, publisher 2K and developer Firaxis have announced. The game is ported from the standalone Commander Edition of the title – which also contains the base game XCOM: Enemy Unknown – released for PS3 and Xbox 360. Enemy …
Read More »Oculus Mobile SDK out now
Software development kit includes integration with Unity 4.5
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