After three pivots, Playhaven finds a niche in monetizing mobile apps
Playhaven started life as a gamer’s social network. Then it morphed into making communities for mobile games. Now, after its third pivot, the company...
OpenFeint’s single sign-on for social games to replace Apple’s UDID (exclusive)
Apple caused panic among app developers last week when it announced that it would phase out an identification system for users on its mobile...
Hands on with Microsoft’s slick speech-powered Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 (video)
Microsoft is rolling out a whole host of speech recognition features for its Windows Phone 7 devices and Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 consoles in a...
Despite Apple crackdown, Tapjoy helps monetize more than 10,000 mobile apps
Tapjoy is announcing today that it helps monetize more than 10,000 mobile apps on the iPhone and Android mobile devices. That’s a significant number...
How Funzio’s Crime City shot to the top of the App Store
When a game shoots to the top of the Top Grossing list in Apple’s App Store, that’s probably a sign that it’s a good...
Why Nintendo should start making games for iPhone and Android
Nintendo investors are extremely unhappy with the company’s nearly 30-year old strategy of making games only for its own consoles and have started demanding...
Nintendo posts unexpected quarterly loss and slashes full-year profit forecast
Nintendo reported a first-fiscal-quarter net loss, hurt by both slow sales of its 3DS handheld game device and a strong yen. The Kyoto-Japan-based company...
Lodsys targets Rovio, EA, Square Enix and more with amended patent lawsuit
Patent licensing company Lodsys fired a shot at some of the biggest game makers in the world with an amended patent lawsuit against Angry...
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
In Q2, developers favored Apple’s iOS over Google’s Android
Developers are a critical battleground in the war of apps between Apple and Google. And Apple’s pulling ahead, according to Flurry’s latest stats. In the...