Angry Birds hits 350M downloads, more films and media coming
Gamers have downloaded game developer Rovio’s Angry Birds, a popular iPhone slingshot-style game franchise, more than 350 million times, the company’s general manager Andrew Stalbow...
GameStop may soon start selling iPhones, iPads and iPods
Video game retailer GameStop may soon push mobile gaming in its stores. The company is apparently planning to start offering Apple’s entire suite of...
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...
Angry Birds maker Rovio seeks $1.2B valuation in upcoming funding round
Angry Birds maker Rovio is in the process of a fundraising round that would value the company at $1.2 billion, according to a report...
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...
NaturalMotion shows off a cool horse game for the iPad (video)
Game developer NaturalMotion showed off a cool, super-realistic horse simulation game on the iPad this week that wowed attendees at the Casual Connect game conference...
Cloud-based video games will put pirates out of business
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates? That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming...
Kontagent brings social gaming analytics to mobile devices (exclusive)
Social gaming analytics provider Kontagent is bringing its analytics tools to mobile apps, the company announced Wednesday. It’s typically harder to collect data on...
Storm8 comes on strong with three new Android games (exclusive)
Storm8 has launched three strong games on Android mobile devices in recent weeks, bringing to 13 the number of titles the mobile game company...
EA’s next mobile lineup features multi-platform multiplayer mayhem (video)
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the...