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Top iPhone Game Apps: Disney's JellyCar 3 Overtakes Cut the Rope
by Danny Cowan
[02.22.11]
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from JellyCar 3 and Glass Tower 2 to NBA Elite 11 and more.
Mobile Phone
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Digital Chocolate Raises $12 Million In Series D
by Eric Caoili
[02.22.11]
Millionaire City developer Digital Chocolate announced that it's raised $12 million in a new financing round, which it plans to put toward expanding its scale and reach.
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Official Minecraft iOS, Android Release Coming Later This Year
by Mike Rose
[02.21.11]
Minecraft creator Mojang has revealed to Gamasutra that an official iOS version of the hit open-world game is currently in the works. [UPDATE: Android version also upcoming.]
PC, Mobile Phone, Indie
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Top iPad Game Apps: Newcomer Pirates vs. Everything Climbs Charts
by Danny Cowan
[02.18.11]
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most iPad games as of today, with Pirates vs. Everything, Back to the Future, and Sand Slides currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
Mobile Phone
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Plants Vs. Zombies, Infinity Blade Honored At International Mobile Gaming Awards
by Leigh Alexander
[02.18.11]
PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies won Best Casual Game at the 7th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards, which crowned six titles in various categories during the Mobile World Congress show.
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Feature: Games Versus Media
by Staff
[02.16.11]
In Gamasutra's latest feature, Tale of Tales' Michaël Samyn (The Path) examines the video game medium from the perspective of what it's capable of and what users want: games with rules, or a new form of media.
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Report: Sony Preparing Tablet With Android OS, PlayStation Suite
by Eric Caoili
[02.16.11]
Sony is working on a 9.4-inch display tablet device that will feature its PlayStation Suite framework, its Qriocity service, and Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.
Mobile Phone
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Interview: Owlchemy Labs Talks Smuggle Truck's 'Newsgame' Controversy
by John Polson
[02.16.11]
As Boston-area indie Owlchemy Labs releases a playable demo of its 'newsgame' Smuggle Truck, the creators talk to Gamasutra about the controversy over the game's U.S. immigration-centric content.
PC, Mobile Phone, Indie
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Top-Grossing iTunes Apps: NBA Jam, Angry Birds Lead iPhone Charts
by Danny Cowan
[02.15.11]
Apple's latest U.S. App Store game charts by revenue see NBA Jam and Angry Birds earning top iPhone sales, while Smurfs' Village and Scrabble remain big sellers on the iPad.
Mobile Phone
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DeNA Rebrands MobageTown To Prepare For Global Expansion
by Eric Caoili
[02.15.11]
Japanese mobile social network operator and game developer DeNA announced a rebranding for its popular MobageTown service to just "Mobage", and unveiled a new logo with English text.
PC, Mobile Phone
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Top iPhone Game Apps: NBA Jam, JellyCar 3 See Big First-Week Sales
by Danny Cowan
[02.14.11]
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games, from JellyCar 3 and Skee-Ball Free to NBA Jam and more.
Mobile Phone
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Microsoft's Ballmer Highlights Possible Windows Phone 7, Kinect Integration
by Leigh Alexander
[02.14.11]
At a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer showed a tech demo of the company's Windows 7 phones integrated with a game of Rally Ball on Xbox 360's Kinect.
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Bill Roper: Publisher Funding For Largescale MMOs 'Just Doesn't Work'
by Staff
[02.14.11]
Talking to Gamasutra, ex-Blizzard and Flagship veteran Bill Roper has offered sharp criticisms of publisher funding models for larger MMOs that are "not sustainable."
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Top iPad Game Apps: Discounted World of Goo Leads Platform Sales
by Danny Cowan
[02.11.11]
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular iPad gaming applications on the App Store, with World of Goo, Bakery Story, and Angry Birds Seasons among the top downloads.
Mobile Phone
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RealNetworks' Game Revenues Drop 9% In 2010
by Eric Caoili
[02.11.11]
As it cuts both employees and expenses, RealNetworks reported that its Games division (GameHouse, Zylom) saw a 9 percent FY revenue drop to $111.4 million, but $4 million in divisional profits.
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Nokia Partners With Microsoft, Adopts Windows Phone As Primary Platform
by Eric Caoili
[02.11.11]
Facing increasing competition from Android and iOS, Nokia has announced a partnership with Microsoft that will see the Finnish company replacing Symbian with Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform.
Mobile Phone
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Lawmakers Ask FTC To Investigate Apple, Google's In-App Purchases
by Eric Caoili
[02.10.11]
Following recent complaints and reports about accidental charges in mobile games, several democratic lawmakers are urging the Federal Trade Commission to review in-app purchases on Apple and Google/Android devices.
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New Publisher Outplay Entertainment To Create 150 Jobs in Dundee
by Mike Rose
[02.10.11]
Outplay Entertainment, a new games publisher based in Dundee, Scotland, is to receive £2.25 million from the Scottish Government, creating 150 jobs and encouraging growth in the Scottish video games industry.
PC, Console/PC, Mobile Phone, Casual
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Interview: Bigpoint's Big Plans Begin With Battlestar Galactica
by Christian Nutt
[02.10.11]
Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz speaks to Gamasutra about his company's first big U.S.-targeted launch -- this week's Battlestar Galactica -- how it plans to attack the American market, the fate of Planet Moon, and more.
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Best of FingerGaming: From New Bust-A-Move to Devil May Cry
by Danny Cowan
[02.09.11]
Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming's top stories -- this time covering Bop It!, New Bust-A-Move, and Devil May Cry 4: Refrain.
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