Southern China-based iDreamsky, which has recently received over $2 million in funding from Hua Xiu Investment Group, announced SkyNet, a social gaming and distribution platform for Android games in the Chinese market. The SkyNet platform will come preloaded on Android devices manufactured by Lenovo, Coolpad and many others. In total, the company expects its platform…
Capcom Arcade Receives ‘Final Fight’ & ‘1943’ in Recent Update for iOS
Last November, Capcom released a free app called Capcom Arcade that brought some of the company’s classic arcade titles to the iOS platform. When the app was released, there were only a handful of games available such as Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, 1942, Street Fighter, and Commando. That’s a great Capcom line-up if you ask me,…
Windows Phone 7 games could hit Xbox with new Silverlight
Microsoft’s MIX conference is just a week away and rumors suggest that we’ll be seeing a new version of Silverlight which will make it possible to play Windows Phone 7 games on your Xbox 360. WinRumos has a source which is saying that Silverlight will definitely be coming to the Xbox 360 at the MIX…
Angry Birds Rio hits 10 million downloads in 10 days!
We never doubted Angry Birds Rio will be a popular game, quite the contrary. Still, the official figures left us speechless. 10 million downloads in 10 days – WOW! The number includes both the iOS and Android devices, with latter getting the free ad-supported version of the game. As you know, Angry Birds Rio is…
Mike Tyson – Main Event is in da AppStore
It was back in October 2010 when we first told you Mike Tyson will get its own iPhone game. Then at the SXSW 2011, our very own Will Park got Tyson to briefly talk about the game. Mike was smart enough not to insult Will, knowing our Editor-in-Chief could easily knock him out in a…
OpenFeint unveils 14 games it helped port to the Android platform
Now that Apple has its own Game Center service, OpenFeint wants to dominate the Android platform. Recently the social gaming network announced plan to help finance the porting of popular iOS titles to Android, in partnership with The9 and the $100 million Fund9. The first results of that initiative are here, with the following OpenFeint-enabled…
Glu Mobile’s Big Time Gangsta hits the AppStore
Glu Mobile, which these days calls its self a publisher of 3D social mobile games, launched Big Time Gangsta App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. I’m sure you can imagine what’s it all about. If you can’t or don’t want to, here’s the official pitch: Big Time Gangsta takes the player into the dark…
World of Goo Coming to iPhone, $0.99 on Launch Day
World of Goo, an excellent physics puzzle game for the Wii and PC, recently landed on the iPad 2, and will be making its way to the smaller screen soon, according to developer 2D Boy. The game has been submitted, and once it’s accepted, it will be $0.99 for the first 24 hours after release…
Nerd Alert: NES and Commodore Decals for iPhone 4
While doing some random iPhone 4 accessory shopping this morning, I came across a couple of real gems from… you guessed it… Etsy. The decals I stumbled upon are for the retro gamers out there, and they’re guaranteed to turn a few heads. The first decal reproduces the look of the original NES controller. The…
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Goes on Sale in Europe and Asia
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, also known as the PlayStation phone, has gone on sale across Europe and Asia today with “an additional 6 markets over the next 2 weeks”, which one would assume includes North America. Countries in the launch include the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Hong Kong, and…