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
EA Mobile brings Madden NFL 11 to iPad for the first time
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., – August 10, 2010 – EA Mobile™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ: ERTS) and the world’s leading mobile games publisher, today announced that the fan-favorite Madden NFL videogame franchise is available on the latest digital devices and platforms reaching new consumers. For the first time, consumers can now play Madden NFL 11 on iPad™. Madden NFL 11 … Read More
GAMEVIL Continues With High Profit Margins in 2Q
SEOUL, KOREA – August 9th, 2010 – GAMEVIL(R) (KOSDAQ:063080) achieved net profit percentage of 50.6% during the second quarter of 2010 continuing its high profit margin quarter after quarter. Sales, operating income and net income were 6.72 billion KRW, 3.54 billion KRW, 3.40 billion KRW, with a year on year increase of 25.2%, 11.3%, 29.3% accordingly, making it the best second … Read More
Microsoft unveils first 3D games for Windows Phone 7 Series. Direct3D only!
Microsoft has today released some screenshots of a couple of 3D games that are currently in development for the Windows Phone 7 Series. Is it just me or is that an awfully big mouthful for such a small device? Anyway, the images look interesting, but this is not an impressive enough couple of titles to excite people into buying another … Read More
Mobile Operators Announce App Store To Compete With Apple
A consortium of mobile operators, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and Vodafone, have announced an agreement to create a unified mobile application store. This is of course a direct attempt by the providers to muscle away some of the power Apple now exerts on the mobile market and place it back in the hands of … Read More
Apple Tablet Poised To Take Over Mobile Gaming?
Considering the success of the iPhone platform in mobile gaming, it only makes sense for Apple to try to extend that dominance as far as possible. The imminent arrival of the oft-rumored but as yet delivered Apple tablet computing device has the potential of making Apple the dominant force in mobile gaming, muscling out established players like Nintendo and Sony. … Read More