Apple Inc. (AAPL) Hires Former Xbox Live Marketing Executive to Push iPhone / iPad Gaming

AAPL Push iPhone iPad Games

Following the release of Apple’s iPhone in 2007, Apple Inc. (AAPL) experienced heavy adoption of its first smartphone, leading to the release of the second generation phone. After initial support for web apps AAPL also announced the App Store, which revolutionized the landscape of gaming on mobile devices. Many third-party app developers created apps tailored to the iPhone and iPod … Read More

Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) to Acquire PopCap Games

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) on Tuesday announced that the company will be acquiring PopCap Games. The acquisition is priced at $650 Million plus $100 Million stock and multi-year Earn-Out. EA has been busy acquiring upcoming and established game developers and publishers from the mobile gaming industry. The gaming giant recently acquired Chillingo and Firemint, both companies have produced highly successful titles for … Read More

Lego Harry Potter for iPhone and iPad [Sneak Peek]

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Today we received an update about Warner Bros. and TT Games upcoming game “LEGO Harry Potter” for iPhone and iPad. The game will be available soon. We got some preview shots of the game however details regarding availability and game features were not revealed. The game will allow Harry Potter fans to get more involved in the world of wizards … Read More

Deer Hunter: African Safari for iPad [Game Review]

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Deer Hunter: African Safari for iPad [rating: 4/5] First there was Deer Hunter, then Deer Hunter for iPad, then Deer Hunter: African Safari and now Deer Hunter: African Safari for iPad.  They do say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and that certainly appears to be the case with Glu’s popular hunting series. If you’ve played any of the series … Read More

MultiPong for iPad The Perfect Pong Game especially for Parties

MultiPong for iPad Review_1

MultiPong for iPad [rating: 5/5] I was introduced to gaming many, many years ago with a Binatone TV Gaming system that allowed my brothers and I to fight over a handful of pixels on the TV screen instead of over Subbuteo, draughts or who gets to eat the last Jammy Dodger. Where Pong of the 80’s was a simple 2 tone … Read More

SEGA Scares Up a Halloween App Sale on the App Store!

SAN FRANCISCO – October 28, 2010: SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced that they are treating their fans to spookily low prices for five of their hit titles on the App Store, including the latest chapter in the blue blur’s 2D saga, Sonic the Hedgehog™ 4 Episode I. To take advantage of these discounted apps, which will last until Nov. 1, … Read More

Chillingo’s ‘Cut The Rope’ Surpasses The Two Million Mark

Om Nom’s Unstoppable; Now With Full Support From EA London, UK., – October 28, 2010– Leading mobile game publisher Chillingo, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that ZeptoLab’s chart-topping, addictive puzzler, ‘Cut the Rope’ has now sold more than two million copies worldwide on the Apple App Store in just three weeks since launch. “Cut the … Read More

Kuboku for iPhone A Numbers Game that Almost Adds up to Perfection

Kuboku iPhone

Kuboku [rating: 4/5] Sudoku’s are a lot like Marmite, you either love them or you hate them, that’s how decisive they are. For me I fell on the side of love ever since I first started playing them in my daily newspaper. For those of you that missed the rise of the Sudoku puzzle throughout the western world a Sudoku is a … Read More

Halloween Game pack for iPhone from Invictus

Invictus today announced Halloween themed updates for three iPhone games. Froggy Jump gives a Ghost frog and a haunted mansion and lots of new scary items! Froggy Launcher offers a Zombie Frog and special Halloween costumes to wear! Grim Filler was previously a paid app. Now it’s FREE to download and is among the top 100 app FROGGY JUMP Play … Read More

MMA by EA Sports A must have for any fighting game fan

MMA by EA Sports iPhone_4

MMA by EA Sports [rating: 4.5/5] My history of fighting games has been of the fantasy fighting type, from Tekken and Battle of Toshinden to Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. The fantasy aspect of these games allows fighters to defy the laws of gravity and perform acts unknown to man and these features always made these games much more enjoyable for … Read More

Reckless Racing for iPhone. A Top Down Racer That Sets New Standards

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Reckless Racing [rating: 4.5/5] EA a renowned name for producing quality titles across all devices and no more so than the range of games they’ve produced for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Most of these games however are big named games ported from other game systems, Reckless Racing however breaks that mold as it debuts onto Apple’s handheld device. There have … Read More

Samurai II: Vengeance for iPhone and iPad. A Sharp Update on the Original Samurai

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Samurai 2: Vengeance [rating: 4.5/5] Back in July we reviewed a new game named Samurai: Way of the Warrior HD and were suitably impressed with it’s beautiful graphics, blood drench gore fest and wonderful Japanese environments. There were shortcomings, so I was interested to see how in less than 6 months does Samurai II: Vengeance match up to it’s predecessor? The first … Read More

Cut the Rope sells 1 Million copies in just 10 days

Prolific iOS publisher Chillingo today announced that their latest smash hit game, puzzler Cut the Rope, has hit the 1,000,000 sales mark. Not remarkable enough for you? How about this: that million mark was reached in just 10 days! Created by developer ZeptoLab, Cut the Rope is a delightful little physics based puzzle game and is available for both iPhone … Read More

Let’s fire for iPhone – Light up the city skies!

Let's fire

Let’s Fire [rating: 2.5/5] Let’s Fire created by Corefan is a game based on a simple premise of fireworks exploding in the sky. Travel around the world and perfect your firework display and score points as you go. The idea of the game is to control the firework display by controlling the fireworks explosion. You have to make it a perfect … Read More