Category Archives: Mobile

Much like movie theaters when the television was introductory to the home, gaming consoles on the decline as customers “move to a new solution” and to Ngmoco’s Ben Cousins the new solution are mobile and mobile platforms.

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Apple has provided a list of apps for iPhone and iPad which have been downloaded the most for specific regions, and the most prominent offerings on the list are games with Angry Birds the top of the pops.

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IGN has posted a hands-on with Mass Effect Infiltrator, the iOS game which launches alongside Mass Effect 3 next week.

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Mojang has announced Minecraft: Pocket Edition has sold over one million units for Android. The title, which was released in August on the Xperia phone before moving on to other Andriod platforms and iOS in September, had sold 700,000 units as of January. From then until present, the game sold an additional 300,000 units. The game is currently priced at $6.99 and the latest update was released around Valentine’s Day.

A new update of the PlayStation Official App is now available.

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SEGA has announced Total War Battles, which are mobile titles based on the strategy franchise which is in the works at Creative Assembly.

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There are now 300 million Android devices in the wild, Google SVP Andy Rubin announced at the Mobile World Congress.

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Compatible Android devices will soon benefit from “content which has been newly created for the PlayStation Suite and PlayStation Store”, Sony Mobile chief marketing officer Steve Walker announced at the Mobile World Congress 2012.

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A trademark filed by Square and dug up in January for something called Guardian Cross, has been announced as a title for iOS and Android, according to Siliconera.

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Bullet hell shooter Shogun: Rise of the Renegade has been released for Android. Get it here. The int13 vertical scroller released for iOS devices last month. There’s a moview below: looks very swish. Via IndieGames.

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The producer of TV series Dexter has made an iOS game called Vowel Movement, according to Eurogamer. It’s a word-based thing, obviously, where you win by moving vowels around sticky consonants. Get it here.

A mobile version of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction has released on Windows Phone 7, according to AnythingButiPhone. It features gameplay mechanics from its console and PC brother, such as “mark and execute”. An iOS version was released in 2010. Conviction original hit 360 and PC in June 2010.

Ex-Disney Interactive Studios head and Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian, alongside ex-Dreamworks VP Brent Pease and president Tim Harris, has set up a new mobile studio known as Industrial Toys. The company, which will “kickass art talent from ex-Marvel and DC,” will aim on making core games for the mobile market.

Seropian left Disney earlier this month. Thanks, PG.

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Space and has said it will be “the biggest game launch since the original Angry Birds.”

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Sony has announced its finalized its mobile business integration, and after purchasing Ericsson’s 50% stake in the mobile arm of the firm, the phone-end of the business shall hence be known as Sony Mobile Communications.

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GREE is setting up shop in San Francisco in order to facilitate the launch of its global platform during Q4 this year. The Japanese network operator, and social and mobile game developer, plans to use the time before launch to build relationships with local developers and publishers. Titles are to be offered through the firm’s existing service, along with that of OpenFeint – its most recent acquisition – and the first two will go live next month. It’s Japanese service boasts 190 million registered users, and it expects to its fiscal year-end sale to reach $2.1-$2.5 billion. Currently, the service offers over 7,500 games from more than 20,000 partners, and has its own internal development studio. Other offices for the firm are located in Beijing, Dubai, London, Sao Paulo, and Seoul. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Some startling figures have come out of Nielsen Games’ latest exposé of gaming trends in the US.

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THQ has announced an agreement with digital development studio Innovative Leisure, a new company formed by games veterans which reads like a list of who’s who of the industry, to publish the firm’s titles.

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“We’re talking with Sony games now. We are really trying to take it in areas that haven’t been done before and have stayed out of the marketplace because the ideas simply weren’t exciting enough. So while the gaming world is waiting for the KISS games that are going to explode, we’re busy taking the brand to places where no band has gone before. We’re talking with Angry Birds, KISS and Angry Birds, which will become a deal. It’s just endless what we can do, but we only do things when it’s right. Just because there are games, and just because there’s this or that out there, unless the deal is right and unless the content is exciting to our fans, we don’t do it.” – Gene Simmons on extending the KISS brand to video games and Angry Birds. Thanks, IndustryGamers.

Capcom has announced it will release Monster Hunter With Everyone: Card Master, known as Minna to Monhan Card Master in Japan, via DeNA’s Mobage mobile social gaming platform. Pre-registrations started today for the card battle game developed by Gloops. Each card is based off characters and monsters from the Monster Hunter series, and it allows players to form guilds, gather cards, and battle other guilds. The game will be released on feature phones and smart phones with microtransactions starting February 21. Thanks, Andriasang.