Casual games company PopCap Games is acquiring ZipZapPlay, a San Francisco-based social games developer, best known for its titles Baking Life and Happy Habitat. Terms of the acquisition were not released. PopCap is maker of blockbuster games such as Bejeweled, Zume Blitz and Plants vs. Zombies, and together with ZipZapPlay, it hopes to reaffirm its…
Zynga acquires Wonderland Software, creator of GodFinger; Establishes Zynga Mobile UK
Zynga has acquired UK-based mobile game developer Wonderland Software, which is best known for its iOS hit game GodFinger. As a result, Wonderland Software will become Zynga Mobile UK, marking Zynga’s first operating studio in the UK. Also under the deal, Zynga will get Wonderland’s team and select IP, not including GodFinger. Moreover, Wonderland Software’s…
OpenFeint hits China through The9 Game Zone
OpenFeint is going to China in partnership with the online game operator The9. Together the two companies launched The9 Game Zone, a mobile social gaming platform for Chinese gamers and a new distribution channel for mobile game developers looking to expand to ever growing Chinese market. The9 Limited is one of the earliest providers of…
Sibblingz’s Spaceport 2.0 allows developers to make games for multiple platforms
Sibblingz’s social gaming platform Spaceport is now in version 2.0, enabling mobile game developers to build a game once using JavaScript, and have it play across every major global smartphone operating system, including iOS, Android and Symbian. According to the press release, Spaceport was developed in order to easily create games that run as hybrid…
Apple rejects ‘Smuggle Truck’ game about smuggling illegal immigrants
Some questionable apps have passed through Apple’s filtering process in the past, like that weird baby-shaking application, but luckily the folks in Cupertino are often on their toes. Smuggle Truck, a highly offensive game where a user’s objective is to drive a truck load of immigrants safely across the desert without getting them thrown out,…
Angry Birds is coming to China
It looks like there won’t be any country that’s safe from those Angry Birds, as Rovio said it plans to bring the mobile gaming phenomenon to China and it is aiming for a whopping 100 million downloads by the end of the year. During a conference, Rovio said that the Angry Birds game has received…
Order & Chaos Online Now Available Worldwide on iPhone & iPad; Get Your World of Warcraft On
We’ve been keeping a close eye on Gameloft’s “Order & Chaos Online” and with good reason. The game resembles Blizzard’s insanely popular World of Warcraft and that’s a very good thing. A good number of our editors have lost sleep over finishing just one more quest or raiding with our guild mates and we can’t wait…
Michael Vick condemns Android dog fighting app
There’s a new dog fighting Android app that is causing quite a stir and even Michael Vick is calling it out. Of course, it’s actually a trickier issue than it’s made out to be. “I’ve come to learn the hard way that dogfighting is a dead-end street,” Vick said in a statement. “Now, I am…
Gameloft Releases “Order Gameplay” Trailer for World of Warcraft Inspired ‘Order & Chaos Online’ for iOS
Last month, Gameloft revealed it would be delivering an MMORPG experience similar to that of the current champion in the MMORPG world, World of Warcraft. The reveal came in the way of a trailer, and judging by the tease Gameloft gave us last time, it looks like it’s going to be Gameloft’s most ambitious title…
EA Drops Prices of Big Titles to $.99 for iOS & Android for Easter; Dead Space, NBA JAM, and More
The countdown to Easter has officially begun as today marks Good Friday, so we’re just 2 more days from Easter Sunday. To celebrate, EA Mobile has marked down some of the best selling iOS & Android titles for this weekend only to $.99. If you’ve been waiting for some of EA Mobile’s biggest titles to…