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Last time we talked about Ngmoco, they were teaming-up with AT&T to bring their Mobage social gaming platform to the U.S. Then before that, they acquired European mobile games developer Rough Cookie. Now Ngmoco is buying another company – Lionside, which is best known for its sports games for Facebook like Lionside Football and NBA…
Angry Birds craze doesn’t seem to stop. The Finnish company Rovio has built an empire around the popular bird-tossing game, selling t-shirts, lunch boxes, speakers and other goodies. There are three Angry Birds titles available — the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio — which combined have surpassed 350 million downloads.…
iPad compatible arcade cabinets are nothing new. We’ve already seen ThinkGeek’s iCade and later on Atari’s gaming controller. Taito thinks there’s still space in this market niche, hence it decided to launch a Space Invaders themed iPad arcade cabinet in Japan. The so called InvaderCade will be released on October 11th where super-eager gamers will…
One of Rockstar Games’ most classic games about a police officer seeking revenge has been announced to be coming to mobile platforms. Max Payne for mobile is said to have enhanced HD graphics, controls that are fully customizable with support for a wired controller, and will allow players to connect to the Rockstar Games Social…
Square Enix is no stranger to the mobile platform game as they’ve released a number of titles on iOS for a couple of years now, but support for the Android market has been nonexistent. That’s all about to change as Square Enix has not only announced some upcoming iOS games, but games will start to be…
Gameloft’s next installment in the Gangstar was announced last week, but aside from the concept art and the hint of the game being set in Rio, we knew absolutely diddly squat about the game. That changes today as Gameloft has released the debute trailer for Gangstar Rio: City of Saints. Gangstar Rio: City of Saints’…
Capcom sure has been busy with its mobile games lately. I mean, today’s news of Yun and Fei Long being added to Street Fighter IV Volt would be enough to keep iPhone gamers busy for a good portion of the day, but as you can see from the title of this here article, Capcom has released…
A man by the name of Michael Pineschi submitted his new app for iPhone and iPod touch to the App Store just a few days ago. It’s called “Phone Story“, and it’s a pretty graphic game involving the making of smartphones in China. 20 hours after Apple approved it, they changed their minds and pulled…
Street Fighter IV Volt was an already impressive upgrade to the previous version of Street Fighter that was released last year. It came with 18 characters, online multiplayer, as well as a rather interesting way to battle your opponent’s avatar while you’re fighting them online. Also factor in the game has spot on fighting mechanics,…
Remember when people used to buy dedicated portable gaming equipment? The Nintendo Game Boy hit American shores in 1989 and over the years we’ve seen it become more and more capable, with the latest incarnation being the poorly selling 3DS. Folks have started wondering why Nintendo simply doesn’t bring their widely loved franchises to platforms…