OpenFeint launches Game Channel to discover Android games
OpenFeint, the mobile social network division of Japan’s Gree, is announcing a Game Channel today that will help users discover new game apps on Android mobile devices. Amid...
More kids are playing games thanks to rise of smartphones and tablets
More kids are playing video games between the ages of 2 and 17, according to a new market research report. The NPD Group reported...
Just like with TV, there’s a prime-time for apps too
Mobile app usage peaks at around 7 pm during the day, according to the mobile analytics firm Flurry. The data shows that, just as...
NaturalMotion to debut My Horse game with beautiful graphics for iPhone (exclusive)
Game developer NaturalMotion is launching a realistic horse simulation game called My Horse in the next day or so on Apple’s App Store. The...
iSwifter is the first to bring Flash-based Google+ games to the iPad
iSwifter’s innovative app for streaming Flash content to the iPad now supports Google+ games, making it the first app to do so, the company...
Japanese mobile game companies make their own strategic moves
Japan is seeing a lot of action in the heavy rivalry between the two mobile social game networks DeNA and Gree. DeNA announced today that it...
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...
The rise of tablet gaming
Tablet gaming could be a huge market, disrupting traditional game hardware markets. With more than 25 million units sold, the iPad has become much larger...
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...
The road ahead in mobile games
Mobile gaming is the wide-open battleground of the entertainment industry. While Zynga dominates social games and big publishers rule console games, the global smartphone...