MindJolt's SGN Studio Launches Social iOS Game Mini Cafe
TechCrunch
While Mini Cafe is available only for iOS, the company expects to develop
companion Android app for all of its mobile games in the future. So why iOS
first? Digiaro explains that the majority of SGN's userbase and installs
are on iOS devices so it made ...
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Does Electronic Arts Have Eyes for PopCap?
PCWorld
If the rumors are true, this wouldn't be the first time EA has made a large
mobile purchase: in 2009, the company acquired mobile games publisher
Playfish for $400 million after payouts. Then in late 2010, EA snapped up
Chillingo for $20 million, ...
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Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Gamasutra
Waschbusch is also a veteran of T-Mobile and, most recently, developed
product strategy at Chinese PC game company Garena. "The acquisition of SGN
in April 2011 provided MindJolt with a talented game studio with a roster
of hit mobile games," said ...
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Hardcore iPhone game Infinity Blade lands on DeNA's social gaming network
VentureBeat
Japanese mobile games portal DeNA announced today it's bringing the popular
iPhone game Infinity Blade, one of the first mobile games geared toward
hardcore gamers, to its mobile social network. The game will be marketed as
Infinity Blade X for Mobage. ...
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Viewdle Lauches 'Third Eye' Augmented Reality Game
Forbes (blog)
By TOMIO GERON Photo sharing and gaming are two of the hottest areas for
mobile apps. Start-up Viewdle, which already has a photo sharing app
SocialCamera based on facial recognition technology, is launching a new
mobile game, Third Eye, ...
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A New Mobile Social Games King In The US? Former Facebookers Take Storm8 To ...
TechCrunch
Among other things, the company is claiming that it has become the
“largest mobile social games developer in the US”, boasting over 210
million downloads across iOS and Android. While those numbers are certainly
impressive, with Angry Birds raking in ...
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Morning Tech Wrap: Electronic Arts, Facebook, Hulu
Forbes (blog)
By PARMY OLSON Electronic Arts is in the process of buying mobile games
maker PopCap Games for more than $1 billion, according to a report in
TechCrunch citing multiple sources. EA's market cap is $7.49 billion,
TechCrunch notes, so an acquisition of ...
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How OpenFeint Hopes to Change the Mobile Gaming Industry
WebProNews
The popularity of social gaming platforms, especially on mobile devices,
has contributed largely to the gaming industry's recent explosion. It's
clear that many consumers are obsessed with games such as Farmville, Mafia
Wars, and Angry Birds, ...
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Professor Layton getting a mobile game called Professor Layton Royale
Metrowny.com
Now, developer of the Prof, Level-5 announced a partnership with Japanese
mobile company DeNA to bring an entry of the series to its Mobage mobile
platform. The game will be titled “Professor Layton Royale” for the
combination of elements from ...
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ngmoco and NimbleBit Bring Pocket Frogs Mobage to Android
Business Wire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile social games leader ngmoco, a DeNA
Co. Ltd (2432.T) company, and leading independent mobile game developer
NimbleBit have announced that they are bringing Pocket Frogs to Android for
the first time with DeNA's ...
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TechCrunch
While Mini Cafe is available only for iOS, the company expects to develop
companion Android app for all of its mobile games in the future. So why iOS
first? Digiaro explains that the majority of SGN's userbase and installs
are on iOS devices so it made ...
<http://techcrunch.com/2011/06
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Does Electronic Arts Have Eyes for PopCap?
PCWorld
If the rumors are true, this wouldn't be the first time EA has made a large
mobile purchase: in 2009, the company acquired mobile games publisher
Playfish for $400 million after payouts. Then in late 2010, EA snapped up
Chillingo for $20 million, ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/articl
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Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Gamasutra
Waschbusch is also a veteran of T-Mobile and, most recently, developed
product strategy at Chinese PC game company Garena. "The acquisition of SGN
in April 2011 provided MindJolt with a talented game studio with a roster
of hit mobile games," said ...
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Hardcore iPhone game Infinity Blade lands on DeNA's social gaming network
VentureBeat
Japanese mobile games portal DeNA announced today it's bringing the popular
iPhone game Infinity Blade, one of the first mobile games geared toward
hardcore gamers, to its mobile social network. The game will be marketed as
Infinity Blade X for Mobage. ...
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Viewdle Lauches 'Third Eye' Augmented Reality Game
Forbes (blog)
By TOMIO GERON Photo sharing and gaming are two of the hottest areas for
mobile apps. Start-up Viewdle, which already has a photo sharing app
SocialCamera based on facial recognition technology, is launching a new
mobile game, Third Eye, ...
<http://blogs.forbes.com/tomio
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A New Mobile Social Games King In The US? Former Facebookers Take Storm8 To ...
TechCrunch
Among other things, the company is claiming that it has become the
“largest mobile social games developer in the US”, boasting over 210
million downloads across iOS and Android. While those numbers are certainly
impressive, with Angry Birds raking in ...
<http://techcrunch.com/2011/06
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Morning Tech Wrap: Electronic Arts, Facebook, Hulu
Forbes (blog)
By PARMY OLSON Electronic Arts is in the process of buying mobile games
maker PopCap Games for more than $1 billion, according to a report in
TechCrunch citing multiple sources. EA's market cap is $7.49 billion,
TechCrunch notes, so an acquisition of ...
<http://blogs.forbes.com/parmy
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How OpenFeint Hopes to Change the Mobile Gaming Industry
WebProNews
The popularity of social gaming platforms, especially on mobile devices,
has contributed largely to the gaming industry's recent explosion. It's
clear that many consumers are obsessed with games such as Farmville, Mafia
Wars, and Angry Birds, ...
<http://www.webpronews.com/how
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Professor Layton getting a mobile game called Professor Layton Royale
Metrowny.com
Now, developer of the Prof, Level-5 announced a partnership with Japanese
mobile company DeNA to bring an entry of the series to its Mobage mobile
platform. The game will be titled “Professor Layton Royale” for the
combination of elements from ...
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ngmoco and NimbleBit Bring Pocket Frogs Mobage to Android
Business Wire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile social games leader ngmoco, a DeNA
Co. Ltd (2432.T) company, and leading independent mobile game developer
NimbleBit have announced that they are bringing Pocket Frogs to Android for
the first time with DeNA's ...
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