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Game of Thrones is on track to be Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s most expensive mobile game in its history, claims the firm’s senior VP of mobile, social and emerging platforms Greg Ballard. Last week the publisher announced a slew of new mobile titles as it aims to make a strong …
Read More »It costs more to play as a female in mobile games
Fewer games than you think offer free playable female characters by default A 12 year-old has discovered that it costs gamers more money to play as female characters than male characters in the most popular iPhone games. The Washington Post has run an article by 12 year-old Madeline Messer in …
Read More »Analytics firm App Annie plans Singapore office
Mobile analytics firm App Annie has opened a new office in Singapore. The company said the move was due to the flourishing and fast-growing mobile market in India and Southeast Asia. It claimed the INSEA and ANZ regions were almost as large as China, Japan and South Korea combined in …
Read More »Angry Birds Stella Pop shoots onto smartphone
Yes, there’s another Angry Birds game – Angry Birds Stella Pop has been released on iOS and Android. The game borrows branding and characters from 2014 release Angry Birds Stella, but also ties up with Outplay Entertainment’s Pop series to provide a branded bubble popping puzzle experience. We wanted Stella …
Read More »Agent Alice breaks Wooga download record
Smartphone game maker Wooga has reached new heights with its most recent release Agent Alice. Games Industry reports that the hidden object title has been downloaded 3m times in just four days and is currently tracking at 800k sales per day. That beats the numbers of its previous best performer, …
Read More »Iwata: Wii U could be just one game away from reversing fortunes
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said that one big hit could still be enough to cause Wii U sales to rocket. Following the generally accepted theory on platform lifecycles, it is natural for you to presume that the sales of Nintendo 3DS will drop X per cent each year or …
Read More »Candy Crush Saga players are spending less
Spending on Candy Crush Saga is in decline. The Guardian reports that quarterly spending on the smartphone hit was in decline throughout 2014, although the game’s in-app purchases still generated $1.33bn and has almost certainly passed lifetime revenues of $3bn. However, having peaked in Q3 2013 at $551m, the game’s …
Read More »Iwata: Wii U still has considerable room for growth, teases Mii smartphone app
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has maintained his staunch support for Wii U, arguing that the machine’s best days are ahead of it, particularly in the West. I believe the Wii U business still has considerable room for growth, as a number of software titles that are compatible with the console …
Read More »Forget Mario on smartphones – Iwata wants smartphone games on Nintendo
The calls for Nintendo to release its games on smartphone may seem relentless, but it seems like the platform holder has other plans. Polar opposite plans, in fact. Kotaku reports that president Satoru Iwata told Nikkei that far from bringing Mario to iPhone, the company instead plans on bringing more …
Read More »Big Hero 6 iOS game has a £49.99 IAP
Disney has gone big on the charges for the in-app purchases in the smartphone spin-off game for Big Hero 6. Apps Playground reports that among the game’s IAPs is an eye-watering 49.99 purchase of the in-game Prism currency. iTunes shows that other denominations are available at 0.79, 2.99, 6.99, 12.99 …
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