Player acquisition costs up 54% year-over-year on mobile in October
But costs and downloads were down very slightly compared to the previous month.
NaturalMotion’s A.I. breakthrough: Clumsy Ninja melds zany character with true human motion & reacts to you
After 10 years in the making, Natural Motion launches Clumsy Ninja, an autonomous virtual character game.
iPhone 5 vs iPhone 5S speed tests: Not much difference for real-world apps (except video)
Apple's brand-new 64-bit iPhone 5S is faster than the Phone 5 in unlocking, booting, and running benchmarks ... but not much faster in real-world applications, according to a side-by-side comparison test.
2K Games wants $20 for XCOM: Enemy Unknown on iOS
One of the best PC strategy games is now one of the most expensive iOS releases.
Apple design awards 2013: apps that ‘raise the bar in design, technology, and innovation’
The winners, as you would expect, included gorgeous design, innovative uses of Apple technologies, and some of the best-imagined apps on the app store. There are also two student-built apps that are simply amazing examples of the creativity of young developers.
Crazy popular Dots iPhone game moves to the iPad with multiplayer mode
Dots has 3 million users in just a month, and they have played more than 250 million games.
EA layoffs show Darwinism at work
Free-to-play games on mobile platforms are changing gaming as we know it.
Chinese ‘app store’ lets you install pirated iPhone apps — without jailbreaking
Chinese "app store" 7659.com is using Apple's own bulk enterprise licensing system to distributed pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users, completely free.
Shufflepix creator goes from zero to published iOS game in nine months
Switching careers and making games isn't easy. But Shinji Kim pulled it off in nine months.
3 things fruit ninjas can learn from Del Monte in mobile marketing
Rovio’s success with Angry Birds, the fastest growing game in history, is a great example of how app developers are applying some ‘traditional’ marketing lessons to drive more revenue.