Gaijin Entertainment Making Android Games
Gaijin Entertainment, an award-winning developer and publisher of multiplatform video games, is announcing that they will start releasing games for Android. The company’s first Android releases, real-time strategy game Modern Conflict and social game Gomoku With Pals, are now available as free downloads from Android Market. Modern Conflict brings Gaijin’s acclaimed iPhone / iPad war […]
OnLive Bringing Console-Like Games To Phones
OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of cloud gaming, announced that it is bringing console-class gaming to tablets and phones with the revolutionary OnLive app for tablet and mobile platforms. The latest, top-tier, high-performance games-previously limited to only consoles and computers-will be available for instant play via the free OnLive app on over 500 million mobile devices […]
PopCap Survey Finds Huge Social Games Growth
PopCap Games, maker of some of the world’s most popular video games, today unveiled the results of a survey updating a 2010 report targeting social gamers in the U.S. and U.K. The survey found that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week, up 71%. Among other results in the new […]
Chrome Browser Game Going 3D
Spacetime Studios has ported their mobile 3D MMO game, Star Legends, to Native Client (NaCl) open-source technology thus enabling PC and Mac players to join Android and iOS players for the first time in gaming history. Pocket Legends, Spacetime Studios’ flagship title, was the world’s first mobile 3D MMO. It was also the first global, […]
Fruit Ninja Heading To China
Halfbrick, the leading Australian games studio behind the chart-topping mobile games Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, today announced its partnership with premium Chinese Android developer and brand management team, iDreamSky (iDS). With more than 200 distribution channels, device manufacturers and content developers as partners, iDS will officially be Halfbrick’s Chinese distribution partner. "Halfbrick and Fruit […]
Crime Story Releases For Android
The search for a missing brother begins your rise through the ranks of a treacherous underworld rife with murder, corruption and greed as Game Insight, a fast-growing social and mobile games company, today announced Crime Story – a free, empire-building game now available for Android. The announcement follows the recent launch of Game Insight’s top-grossing […]
Activision Announces Independent Games Winners
In an effort to help foster creativity and innovation from the rising talent in the independent game development community, Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is proud to announce today the winners of the first round of the inaugural Activision Independent Games Competition. The winners are being rewarded for their hard work and creativity with cash […]
In a 7-2 Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down California Violent Video Game Law
In what is likely to be hailed as one of the greatest legal victories for the game industry, the Supreme Court struck down the controversial California law that would have criminalized the sale of violent video games to minors. The 7 to 2 victory is a resounding win for the industry, which argued that the […]
GameSalad Offers Game Companies HTML5 Publishing Capabilities
GameSalad Inc., which empowers aspiring and established game designers to easily develop sophisticated web and mobile games, today announced the ability to publish games using HTML5, widely regarded as the next standard language for delivering content on the web. With HTML5, the more than 1 billion people using web browsers today can now enjoy GameSalad […]
Industry Veteran Ulf Waschbusch To Lead Mobile Development At MindJolt
Leading social, mobile, web games company MindJolt today announced mobile veteran Ulf Waschbusch will lead internal social mobile game development under the SGN studio. An expert in the mobile space, Ulf has held senior mobile product roles for Google, MySpace and T-Mobile, most recently serving as Chief Product Officer at Garena, one of the largest […]