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LucasArts has released a new Clash of Clans-inspired Star Wars game in iPhone and iPad. Star Wars: Commander is unsurprisingly free-to-play but comes with some pretty hefty IAP options, including a 69.99 14,000 crystal pack. IAPs start at 2.99 for 500 crystals. The listing specifies: "Before you download this experience, …
Read More »Clones descend on Flappy Bird creator’s new game Swing Copters
Swing Copters is the new game from Dong Nguyen, but good luck finding it. Not that the game isn’t available – it is, both on iOS and Google Play. But as The Guardian points out, clones of the game were so quick to arrive that some were even released before …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Memories launches on iOS
Ubisoft has released Assassin’s Creed mobile spin-off game Assassin’s Creed Memories onto Apple’s App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The free-to-play title features card battles across different periods of the franchise, such as Renaissance Italy and Colonial America (along with new areas, including Feudal Japan and Imperial …
Read More »The Walking Dead Season 2 finale hits next week
The concluding episode of The Walking Dead Season 2 will launch across all platforms next week, Telltale has announced. The episode will launch worldwide August 26th on PC and Mac, as well as in North America for PS3 and Vita. Xbox 360 gets its release on August 27th, alongside PS3 …
Read More »The Pokemon Trading Card Game is coming to iOS
Nintendo may finally be about to make its long-awaited jump onto iOS. No, the company is not, as previously pledged, enabling Mario to move onto smartphone”, but YouTuber Josh Wittenkeller has said on Twitter that the platform holder IS porting its Pokemon Trading Card Game to iOS. The game was …
Read More »MCV @ GAMESCOM PREVIEW: Skylanders Trap Team
From the moment Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO, bemoaned the poor sales of Wii U, you knew Skylanders had a problem. The record-breaking kids IP that introduced the world to ‘toys-to-life’ was finding it harder and harder to find where the kids were playing. Wii and DS sales had fallen down; …
Read More »Pokemon card game heading to iPad
A Pokmon trading card game is in the works for release on iPad devices later this year, The Pokmon Company has confirmed. Video personality Josh Wittenkeller originally broke the news on Twitter, posting an image that appeared to show a white iPad playing a version of The Pokmon Trading Card …
Read More »Android claimed 84.7% smartphone sales share in Q2 2014
84.7 per cent of smartphones shipped worldwide in the quarter ending June 2014 used Google’s Android operating system. That’s up from 79.6 per cent in the same quarter a year before, IDC data claims. iOS claimed a market share of 11.7 per cent, down from 13 per cent the year …
Read More »Apple Design Award winner Monument Valley reaches 1m sales
Award-winning premium mobile title Monument Valley has sold in excess of 1m copies in its first four months out, developer Ustwo has announced. Joystiq reports the game’s lead designer Ken Wong revealed the figure at a recent presentation, adding that it had recouped development costs in its first week on …
Read More »European iOS devs have received $6.5bn from Apple
App Store creator claims credit for half a million jobs in Europe
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