Games market analyst Colin Sebastian has claimed that Nintendo’s freshly confirmed 3DS could potentially threaten iPhone’s rise as a viable portable games machine With a differentiated 3D display, high quality games, and profitable business model for publishers, we believe the 3DS could help reduce the competitive threat from smartphones,” Sebastian …
Read More »iPhone eats up PSP and DS share
Apple’s digital distribution model makes it tough to track sales numbers for iPhone games, but a new report from Flurry says that the device’s share of the US market grew considerably last year – at the expense of the PSP and DS.Mobile Entertainment reports that in 2009 the iPhone claimed …
Read More »‘70% of iPhone devs heading to Android’
Mobile ad firm releases new SDKs and says customers are going cross-platform
Read More »iPad launch line-up will be games heavy
44 per cent of the apps currently being tested on iPads are games, according to analytics firm Flurry. That’s based on its monitoring of usage of apps containing its analytics software. Entertainment is the next largest category with 14 per cent, followed by Social Networking (7 per cent), Sports (6 …
Read More »iPhone game disappears following dev’s Apple rant
Though price hikes more likely to have spurred the game's ban
Read More »GDC: Epic details UE3’s latest improvements
New functions add more flexibility, control and detail to popular engine
Read More »iPhone not encroaching on DS
There’s more than enough evidence to suggest that Apple can rightly lay claim to be the fourth platform holder of the modern video games market – but Nintendo has dismissed the idea that Apple’s gain is its loss. There’s been no data to suggest an encroachment on our business,” Nintendo’s …
Read More »GDC: Unity claims ‘engine with broadest support’
New version of increasingly popular engine unveiled in San Francisco; Adds Android, iPad and PS3
Read More »GDC: Valve confirms Steam and Source for Mac
Digital distribution service and engine heads to Apple platform in April
Read More »US: iPad finally dated
Apple has announced that its iPad tablet will go on sale in the US on Saturday 3rd April. That’s the Wi-Fi-only model – the Wi-Fi + 3G model will go on sale there in late April. That’s a slight delay – the Wi-Fi version was expected to go on sale …
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