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World's richest firm beats Microsoft's record with $623 billion valuation

Zoe Mode not buying into the mobile gold rush

GAME OF THE DAY: Some genres have struggled in the transition from TV to touchscreen. Football is not one of them. Early efforts to bring football to smartphones focused on trying to concentrate the established console game model on the smaller, button-less screen. And sometimes it worked, too – X2’s …

Mobile Pie's Will Luton speaks to Nimblebit co-founder David Marsh about running the small indie outfit

NaturalMotion has revealed that its free-to-play iOS game CSR Racing grossed in excess of $12m in its first month. Developed by UK studio Boss Alien, the game sees players competing in a succession of drag races. No steering is required – instead, success is determined by the player’s gear changing …

'People are moving to the mobile space, and related to that is shifting things to the cloud'

US outfit looking to expand Canadian branch to 60 employees over the next six months

GAME OF THE DAY: There are few core game genres that have successfully excelled on iOS. Cave shooters are certainly one of them. For those who are yet to experience ‘the Cave way’, it goes something like this: You fly a 2D ship horizontally or vertically along a level while …

Polytron’s Phil Fish has revealed that Zynga sought out the indie studio with hopes of porting their XBLA platformer Fez to mobile devices. GI.biz tracked down a series of tweets from the polarizing developer that explained the exchange. "Zynga approached us to port Fez to mobile. We politely refused. So, …

Mobile Pie's Will Luton ponders games as machines - products of vision and technical engineering