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EA’s continuing efforts in the mobile space are paying off. Thanks to a ridiculous sale in December, the publisher managed to best all competitors and become the top publisher in the App Store throughout December. The Sims: FreePlay was the top-grossing iPad app. The news comes from the company’s third quarter fiscal year earnings report, [...]

French developer and publisher Gameloft reported another quarter of growth for the October-December period, enjoying an 18 percent boost in revenues to € 47 million ($61.9 million) compared to the previous year. Gameloft attributed its “significant success” in sales and record fourth quarter to recently launched titles that replicate console-like experiences for mobile players, like [...]

Swiss company Digital Capital has launched itself as a “funding vehicle” for digital games, offering funding to mobile, console and PC developers. “With the growth of digital distribution there are so many opportunities for investors,” said co-founder and veteran business advisor Todd Tribell. “Our focus will always be on quality, with the sole aim of [...]

Newsbrief: Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA today announced a partnership with Chinese mobile platform Baidu, with DeNA’s Mobage platform now available via Baidu’s Yi Store in China. A new dedicated Mobage section is now open in the Yi Store, allowing Chinese mobile gamers to download Mobage titles for Android devices. The Yi Store uses cloud [...]

Unlike its unflinching US equivalents, News Corp-owned Sky TV is readying its service for availability via broadband, rather than solely through traditional cable box delivery. The company announced plans today to bring a mixed on-demand/pay-per-month streaming service to the UK in the coming months — a move we’ve yet to see made on this side [...]

Sid Meier has been in the industry for years, long enough to see new trends rise and fade. How does the luminary plan on approaching tablet and mobile games? “Essentially, I think we would not approach [mobile/tablet gaming] differently,” Meier said. “I think we would imagine, what would be a game we would like to [...]

Newsbrief: For its latest indie game promotion, the pay-what-you-want Humble Indie Bundle has debuted its first mobile-focused pack, offering games that support Android in addition to Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux. This new bundle includes popular indie titles such as 2D Boy’s World of Goo, Hemisphere Games’ Osmos, Mobigame’s Edge, and 11 bit Studios’ Anomaly. As [...]

No smartphone is safe from cheap indie games (unless it’s a Blackberry). Just as the Steam mobile app goes out of beta, allowing unfortunate impulse purchases from iOS or Android devices, the Humble Indie Bundle has announced its first Android release, available now. Under the same “pay whatever, support charity” pricing scheme as previous Humble [...]

The adage of “success breeds imitation” seems to be the rule in the mobile and social games world. While trying to duplicate the formula for a game is one thing, outright copying it is a whole other matter. That’s what developer Spry Fox claims happened to its popular Triple Town game for Android, Facebook, and [...]