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Latest iOS game that caught our eye, Rebel Hero, comes from a company called BarbaricCo, which is Bosnia and Herzegovina-based company. What’s especially interesting about BarbaricCo is that it made an iPhone game even though the country has no App Store of its own. Pretty cool, right? Anyway, Rebel Hero is an action side-scroll shooter…
Thus far we’ve seen a number of different ways to get money out of the Angry Birds franchise. And just when we though we’ve seen it all, the Moscow-based Promsvyazbank announced it launch the world’s first line of Angry Birds-branded bank cards. According to The Moscow Times, this tie-in is the first official Angry Birds…
Need another game to take advantage of that Transformer Prime or other Tegra 3 device you’re rocking in your pocket or backpack? Well, look no further than Renaissance Blood THD – the newest addition in the TegraZone app store. Here’s a brief description of the game from TegraZone.com Da Vinci is dead. Now it’s up…
GameStop announced that it’s now selling a select number of Android tablets in over 1,600 of its retail stores across the country. The news broke on Friday as a promotion to “experience a new way to game” for Memorial Day weekend. The move is a clever acknowledgment from GameStop of the evolutionary shift in gaming…
It’s likely that we won’t see a ton of fake mobile games in the Android Market (Google Play) in the future. Nope, Google won’t introduce an app review process, but developers should now be more wary, since they could end-up paying for their deeds. According to a BBC report, an unnamed Latvian developer who posted…
YoYo Games launched GameMaker: Studio, a new software that promises to make 2D game development easy, relying on HTML5 technology. This in turn, will allow developers to make game once and see it running on multiple platforms, including iOS and Android. Although it’s touted as a “powerful” solution, GameMaker: Studio sports a drag-and-drop IDE with…
Zynga has teamed-up with American Express to launch the Zynga Serve Rewards program, which is tied to the Serve digital wallet and is touted to “break new ground in the prepaid card market” by offering in-game incentives for everyday spending. As a result of this co-operation, FarmVille players have the ability to plant an interactive…
Gameloft launched the Men in Black 3 game for iOS and Android users. Available as a free download, it sees you building your very own MIB agency while interacting with friends. Some of the things are free to use/build, some can be earned by playing mini-games, while some others are available through in-app purchase. This…
Juniper Research is looking at the mobile gambling prospects in its latest report. From there we learn that the surge in social gambling activity, along with the introduction of intrastate casino and lottery services in the US, will help push global annual wager via mobile handsets and tablets to $100 billion by 2017, up from…
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of the Fruit Ninja launch, Halfbrick will update its flagship game on May 24th. New version, which initially will target iOS users, will bring a number of features, including the time-increasing peach as well as “highly explosive” berries. Moreover, fictional “Starfruit” will be added to the mix to be used…