Mobile Games Archives

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Can GameStop’s Kongregate app help Google catch up with Apple in mobile games? [Update: and it’s gone!]

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 18, 2011
3 min

[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...

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3 min

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Playdom co-founder starts Wild Needle to focus on social mobile games (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 11, 2011
2 min

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...

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2 min

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Zynga launches Mafia Wars Atlantic City for mobile phones

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 20, 2010
1 min

Zynga launched a mobile version of its Mafia Wars Atlantic City game today. The game is the social game company’s first designed for the...

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1 min

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Learning from Groupon, OpenFeint launches group deals for mobile game buyers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2010
2 min

If it works for Groupon, maybe the group-buying craze will work for mobile games. With that logic, OpenFeint launched a program today that will...

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2 min

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Gamers spent $2.6B to $2.9B in first half on digital online goods

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2010
1 min

While sales of video games in physical stores is declining, the amount spent online on digital goods for games is skyrocketing. Market researcher NPD...

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Warner Bros. taps industry veteran Greg Ballard to run digital games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 4, 2010
2 min

Movie studio Warner Bros. is getting serious about online games and digital distribution. The company announced today it has hired video game industry veteran...