Nintendo CEO: Smartphone games are worthless
In a feisty attack on the fastest-growing sectors of the video-game industry, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said that smartphone games and social-media games focus...
Our obsession with mobile games is growing (exclusive survey)
Our appetite for mobile games is growing, with more than a third of U.S. and U.K. adults saying that they play mobile games, according...
OpenFeint and Adknowledge open up a new way to make money from mobile games
The days when game developers could only get 99 cents for a mobile game are fast disappearing. Now they’re figuring out new ways to...
FTW syncs your saved games across devices
If you’ve ever played a game like Angry Birds on the iPhone and the iPad, you’ve probably been frustrated by the fact that you...
Do women play more games than men?
Women now play games more than men, according to a report by mobile app analytics provider Flurry. At least that’s true in the realm...
Fuse aims to make App Store simpler for game developers
Fuse is launching a game publishing company on the App Store today with an interesting proposal for game developers: deep data-driven marketing and proprietary...
Popular places to play mobile games: in the car and on the toilet
Everyone assumes that people play mobile games while they’re on the run, but the reality is that mobile game users are seven times more...
Kongregate takes another crack at launching online arcade on Android
It’s round two in the Google versus Kongregate mobile arcade match — and hopefully there will be less drama this time around. Flash game portal...
Can GameStop’s Kongregate app help Google catch up with Apple in mobile games? [Update: and it’s gone!]
[Update: Well, that was short-lived. Google has pulled the application from the Android Marketplace, citing a violation of its terms of service.] Kongregate, the...
Playdom co-founder starts Wild Needle to focus on social mobile games (exclusive)
Rick Thompson is hoping that lightning strikes another time. Thompson was the chairman and co-founder of Playdom, the social game company that Disney bought...