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Android, iOS to Get Xbox LIVE Gaming Too

One of the appealing features that Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system came to the market with back in 2010 was support for Xbox LIVE, which provided users with the possibility to enjoy great gaming on the small screen of their smartphones. The feature proved a success among Windows Phone users, and i...

9 January 2012
12:41 GMT

Analyst: Social and Mobile Gaming Will Grow in 2012

2012 is nearly upon us and this means that across the video game world analysts and companies both are trying to look into their crystal bowls in order to see what might happen during the next year and how video games might evolve.One trend that will likely continue to gain steam will be the move towards social and m...

28 December 2011
20:01 GMT

Gamers Are Abandoning the PSP and the 3DS for the Smartphone

A report from analysis form Cowen and Company has shown that only 37 percent of gamers are playing on a dedicated handheld device while a majority of 52% were using a mobile phone to get their gaming fix.The report says, “Over the last five years, the penetration of dedicated handheld platforms into survey resp...

18 November 2011
07:47 GMT

Capcom Wants to Make Street Fighter and Monster Hunter More Social

Video game publisher Capcom has decided to make a significant push towards an increased presence in the mobile and social gaming space, with the leaders of development for Street Fighter and Monster Hunter Frontier leading the charge.Yoshinori Ono, who is known for producing the Street Fighter series, told Japanese m...

17 November 2011
20:31 GMT

Nintendo Wii and DS Are Not Threatened by Social and Mobile Gaming

One of the main representatives of video game publisher and hardware maker Nintendo has said that the very rapid increase on both mobile and social gaming is not having a negative effect on traditional gaming linked to the Wii home console and the DS handheld.Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the president of the American div...

11 November 2011
06:34 GMT

Nvidia Tegra 3 to Enable Next-Gen Mobile Gaming

Nvidia has just unveiled a ton of details on their quad-core Tegra 3 application processor for mobile devices, and also delivered some demonstrations of its capabilities, noting that users will benefit from a great experience when playing games of phones or tablets that are powered by this chip. In the video embedd...

9 November 2011
06:11 GMT

No Xperia PLAY 2 Planned for Now, Only Improvements

Earlier this year, Sony Ericsson announced the availability of their first PlayStation-certified mobile phone, the Xperia PLAY, which also comes with a unique design, featuring a sliding game pad with the usual PlayStation controls on it. No specific info on how sales of Xperia PLAY went has emerged until now, but...

9 September 2011
17:51 GMT

Report: Digital, Online and Mobile Gaming Will Limit Console Development

An investment review coming from Digi-Capital suggests that video game hardware developers might never launch a ninth console generation because of the impact that digital distributed content, online gaming and mobile devices will have on the video game industry.The PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 ar...

17 June 2011
15:21 GMT

OpenFeint Launches GameFeed, a Cross-Platform New Feed

OpenFeint, the leading social gaming network, has just announced the availability of a new cross-platform new feed, called GamesFeed, which is meant to keep users up to date with things that interest them most. The new GameFeed was launched with real time gaming updates from players’ OpenFeint network, and was...

8 June 2011
16:11 GMT

99 Cent Games Are Killing the Industry, Epic Games Says

Epic Games President Mike Capps has recently weighed in on the state of the gaming industry and how the advent of small, lightweight games that cost just 99 cents for mobile platforms like the iOS or Android, are killing regular $60 games. The gaming industry is changing dramatically, and will continue to do so in...

22 April 2011
02:40 GMT

PopCap Study Shows Mobile Gaming as Surpassing Consoles and PC

PopCap Games, the company which dominates the casual video games market, has released a study that shows how the present of gaming is being dominated by those who play on mobile devices, with subjects in both the United States and in the United Kingdom saying that mobile play time is now more important than that spen...

1 March 2011
13:41 GMT

Sony Ericsson to Launch the PlayStation Phone on December 9th

Leading mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is reportedly getting ready to bring to the market a new device, one that would most probably set a new standard when it comes to mobile gaming, the long rumored PlayStation Phone, and it appears that the release day for this device is getting increasingly nearer.Moreover, so...

25 November 2010
04:47 GMT

Electronic Arts Buys Angry Birds Publisher

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has acquired Chillingo, the publisher of such iPhone powered hits as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, with the intention of using it as a launch pad to expand its operations in the mobile gaming space.Sources close to the transaction have been quoted as saying t...

21 October 2010
13:31 GMT

Epic Games Expects Mobile Gaming for Next Generation of Consoles

Mark Rein, who is the vice president of developer Epic Games, has said that he expects mobile gaming to dominate the future, with the new generation of gaming consoles all featuring mobility as one of the most important features.Talking to develop Mark Rein took a look into the next few years of gaming hardware, sayi...

7 October 2010
15:01 GMT

Steve Jobs Calls iPod Touch Most Popular Portable Game Player

Steve Jobs, the Chief Executive Officer of Apple, has claimed that the iPod Touch is the “most popular portable game player in the world” at an event while unveiling a new version of the device which is sure to capture even more of the market share of mobile gaming.Jobs went on to say that, “The iPo...

2 September 2010
08:29 GMT

Xbox LIVE to Enhance Mobile Gaming on WP7

Windows Phone 7 operating system should bring a nice range of chances to the manner in which Microsoft sees mobile phone usage, and the gaming capabilities of upcoming devices are included here too. Besides offering access to Xbox LIVE and a new mobile gaming experience, the Games hub on Windows Phone 7 comes with a...

17 August 2010
12:41 GMT

Xbox LIVE Games Announced Officially for Windows Phone 7

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just unveiled the first batch of Xbox LIVE titles that should become available for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system when launched later this year. More similar games, as well as other software solutions, should become available for the platform. The upcoming Windows...

17 August 2010
02:50 GMT

Smartphones Help US Mobile Gaming Market Increase

On Wednesday, comScore, Inc. unveiled the results of a new study on mobile gaming, showing that the market has a great potential, even if the number of U.S. mobile gamers decreased last year. According to the company, the decline was driven by a 35 percent decrease of mobile gaming on feature phones, which account f...

15 April 2010
04:57 GMT

Apple Slams the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable

When it comes to gaming on the move, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable recently got to meet a new challenger in the Apple-made iPhone. Both Nintendo and Sony have long regarded the new device as lacking the power and the public needed to compete with the long established handhelds. But now Apple has made t...

10 September 2009
18:01 GMT

Sony Ericsson Yari Takes Mobile Gaming to New Levels

Sony Ericsson announced recently the release of yet another handset meant to offer an enhanced mobile experience to all mobile users around the world, the Sony Ericsson Yari. The new handset, the company says, has been developed so as to deliver the ultimate in mobile fun, both in the gaming and multimedia segments. ...

1 June 2009
10:28 GMT

Mobile Gaming Gets a Boost from Smartphones

Smartphones have registered a great amount of success lately, and their wider usage is also seen as a great way for mobile gaming to propel. According to comScore, more and more users are downloading mobile games in the US. In November last year, their number reached 8.5 million, 17 percent higher than a year before....

2 February 2009
10:00 GMT

Nokia's New Games and Mobile Gaming Plans Presented at GDC 2008

Nokia announced a strong presence at this year's Game Developers Conference (18 - 22 February, San Francisco), bringing new N-Gage and SNAP Mobile games, live demos of its N-Gage First Access program, plus a keynote by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Markets, Nokia. "This year is our...

19 February 2008
03:43 GMT

MWC 2008: International Mobile Gaming Awards Winners Announced

IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards) announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the winners for the year 2007. This year's International Mobile Gaming Awards edition came with a total prize worth of 40,000 USD, enough to stimulate gamers all over the globe. The registrations started in Jul...

14 February 2008
04:13 GMT

Nokia Launches N-Gage Mobile Gaming Service

One of the services that Nokia has decided to bring out on the market is the N-Gage mobile gaming one. This is meant to allow people to test any N-Gage games for free from any of the tens of millions of compatible Nokia devices on the market. If the user likes it, he can choose to purchase and download it on his PC o...

30 August 2007
03:45 GMT

International Mobile Gaming Awards Looks for Its Winners

This year's edition of the International Mobile Gaming Awards is preparing for the festivities of granting the winning title to the most creative game concept that will subscribe.This is one of the most important competitions in the domain and has also considerable importance in the evolution of the winner'...

3 July 2007
02:43 GMT

First Mobile Phone Gaming Tournament

Mobile gaming has proved to be more and more addictive in the last few years, as it has become capable of providing higher performances. We now have better graphics, more challenges and even a gaming championship for mobile games.Few understand the high amount of skills that people might need in order to perfectly ma...

11 June 2007
04:00 GMT

NTT DoCoMo Introducing Wii-Like Gaming for Phones

Mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has announced that starting May it will begin selling three cell phones that offer motion-sensitive gaming. In short, they work in a similar way to the Wii, the main difference being that, while only being cell phones and including less advanced technology, they won't quite compare to ...

23 April 2007
10:05 GMT

AMD Planning to Bring XBox 360 Graphics to Handhelds

AMD has revealed its plans of bringing X360 quality graphics onto handhelds that will be powered by AMD's next-gen graphics technologies. The company will also be introducing a suite of tools that are meant to help content creators jumpstart the development of applications for handhelds based on the OpenVG 1.0 a...

15 March 2007
04:14 GMT

Vollee Announces Closing of Series A Financing Round

Vollee has announced the closing of a $4 million Series A financing round from lead investor BlueRun Venture, after Benchmark Capital has joined as an investor during the last year. The company offers PC and console quality games on 3G-enabled mobile devices with a development and porting process of less than four we...

9 March 2007
06:09 GMT


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