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iPhone Game Developer Ngmoco consolidates power, purchases Freeverse
Just days after Freeverse announced that it had sold over 5 million apps comes news via TechCrunch that Ngmoco, a top iPhone game publisher with widely recognized titles like Rolando and Touch Pets, has purchased Freeverse after securing $25 million in venture capital. Most of Freeverse’s apps sell for $0.99, and a good number of […]
Continue reading...Freeverse apps surpass 5 million download mark
Monday, February 22, 2010
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In late June of last year, game developer Freeverse announced that they had sold over 1 million copies of their popular iPhone and iPod Touch app Flick Fishing. Since then, Freeverse has had continued success on the iTunes App Store as they recently announced that their library of apps have now been downloaded over 5 […]
Continue reading...Guess how much Gameloft made on the iTunes App Store last year?
Monday, February 15, 2010
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A few weeks ago, Gameloft released its financial results for 2009 and made a point of highlighting all of its revenue derived from the iTunes App Store. When the dust settled, Gameloft netted about $25 million in revenue from app sales to iPhone and iPod Touch users, and in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone, […]
Continue reading...Development for iPhone platform now double that of PSP and Nintendo DS
Friday, February 5, 2010
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Electronista reports: The iPhone platform is more popular to write games for than the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, according to a new study from Game Developer Research. Demand for the iPhone has surged to where about 19 percent of all game developers are writing for the iPhone and iPod touch. The figure is more […]
Continue reading...How the iPad came to be [Photo]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Nothing like a shroom trip to turn the iPhone into the iPad! via digg
Continue reading...Steve Jobs unveils Duke Nukem Forever [Comic]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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This comic is f’n hilarious and one of the best we’ve seen. Much props to Pidjin for coming up with this piece of Apple/Nerd comedy gold.
Continue reading...GTA: Chinatown Wars now available on iTunes for $9.99
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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First announced in August, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is finally available in the iTunes app store for $9.99. Chinatown Wars is a recent addition to the GTA franchise, and was originally popularized on the Nintendo DS where both critics and users heaped praise upon it. From the looks of it, Rockstar has maintained the […]
Continue reading...Gameloft apps averaging over 1 million downloads a month
Monday, January 11, 2010
In early September, Gameloft announced that its line of iPhone apps, which include top selling titles such as Gangstar: West Coast hustle, Assassin’s Creed, Avatar, NOVA, and NFL 2010, had topped 6 million downloads in just over 12 months – amounting to about 500,000 downloads a month. Since then, Gameloft has been on a tear, […]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak, inventor and Tetris Champion?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is an engineering legend who naturally holds a place in the inventors hall of fame. But there’s a lot more to Woz than his role in designing the personal computer. Not only did he put on 2 massive music festivals in the early 80’s, but he’s also one of the world’s […]
Continue reading...App downloads skyrocket during holiday weekend; Tap Tap Revenge 3 nets 300,000 downloads in 24 hours
Monday, December 28, 2009
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With the holiday shopping season now firmly behind us, an untold mass of people are busy getting acquainted with new iPhones and iPod Touch devices, and it only makes sense that many of them are migrating en masse to the iTunes App Store to see what all the fuss is about. So it makes sense […]
Continue reading...Epic Games demos “Unreal Engine 3” on the iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Developed by Epic Games, the ‘Unreal Engine’ is a 3D gaming engine used in many popular video games such as Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Gears of War, BioShock 2, and Mass Effect. And below, check out the Unreal Engine running on 3rd gen iPod Touch. Notably, the engine requires OpenGL ES 2.0, so it can only run […]
Continue reading...“Gunman” app is like laser tag and paintball for your iPhone
Monday, December 21, 2009
Holy Shit. If this app is half as good as it sounds, then this might be a literal killer app for the iPhone. I’m talking about “Gunman” (iTunes Link), a recently released iPhone app from Shadowforce that takes augmented reality to a whole new level by meshing it with a first person shooter. Gunman is […]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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