Mobile Games

Words too hard? Zynga has new 'With Friends' game
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP This undated image provided by Zynga Inc., shows
Zynga's latest mobile game, "Matching With Friends" which was released in
Australia and Canada for the iPhone and iPad on Wednesday, June 6, 2012,
and will be available worldwide in ...
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Computer game giant WeMade eyes mobile market
Times of India
The 12-year-old company behind
massively-multiplayer-online-role-player-game (MMORPG) "Legend of Mir"
planned to ride into the US market on the back of the mobile gadget
lifestyle. The game has been a hit in Asia, particularly in China, and
boasts more ...
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Build a place for celebrity shoppers with PlayFirst's Mall Stars mobile game
VentureBeat
The game reflects the new mobile-focused strategy at PlayFirst, one of the
oldest casual game publishers that recently pulled out of Facebook to put
most of its efforts into the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The title is a
strategy game that tries to ...
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Words too hard? Zynga has new 'With Friends' game, no spelling required
Washington Post
NEW YORK — There's no spelling required in Zynga's latest mobile game,
"Matching With Friends." For those who play the popular,
Scrabble-inspired game "Words With Friends," the latest title should
feel familiar. Instead of using letters to form into ...
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Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem on passion, characters, and building a mobile
game ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz
"Our approach is can we build great games?" Decrem says. "Can we create
games that people use for a long time, and build a network, and build
franchises." With three development teams in the US and Europe, Disney
Mobile doesn't lack for resources.
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Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says Xbox SmartGlass takes an open view of
mobile ...
VentureBeat
But it remains to be seen whether fans will opt for Microsoft's view of the
future of gaming and how tablets and smartphones fit into it. The company
introduced its Xbox SmartGlass app, where users can tap mobile devices and
use them to control a game ...
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Zynga launches 'Matching With Friends' game for mobiles
Times of India
The game is being released Wednesday for the iPhone and the iPad. It will
initially be available only in Australia and Canada. It will come to the US
and other countries in the coming weeks, though Zynga isn't giving dates
yet. Like other mobile games ...
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Aussie gamers have the first bite at Zynga's Matching with Friends
The Australian
ZYNGA has confirmed that its latest mobile game "Matching with Friends" has
come to Australia well ahead of its US release. For those who play the
popular, Scrabble-inspired game "Words With Friends", the latest title
should feel familiar.
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Game Consoles Are Dead. Long Live Game Consoles.
Huffington Post
As the video games industry gathers for its annual pow-wow at E3 this week,
there is a real worry. Is the history of the games industry, dominated for
the last 25 years by games played on a television, over? Will everyone play
on Facebook or on mobile ...
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