Mobile Games

Another ex-Ensemble mobile game startup, BonusXP, comes out of stealth ...
VentureBeat
BonusXP is coming out of stealth today as a new mobile game studio, founded
by a team whose members come from Zynga's Bonfire Studios, Robot
Entertainment, and id Software. The Allen, Texas-based studio includes Dave
Pottinger, chief executive and ...
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Zynga's Mark Pincus On Targeting Mobile, Real Money Gaming
PC Magazine
In an interview at Fortune Brainstorm Tech Wednesday, Zynga founder and CEO
Mark Pincus talked about the company's goals, building a mobile
infrastructure, and "real money gaming." Pincus said Zynga has taken a
fundamentally different approach to ...
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Bigpoint company shake-up includes closing mobile games development
Joystiq
German online games publisher Bigpoint, best known for free-to-play and
browser games, will be dumping its mobile games development side very soon.
Two managing directors, brothers Tobias and Philip Reisberger, and the
chief communications officer, ...
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Bigpoint closes mobile division, cancels games, lays off staff
Gamasutra
This, he says, is why Bigpoint is moving away from mobile game development,
closing down its mobile branch, cancelling numerous mobile games currently
in development, and laying off 29 employees in the process. Speaking to
GI.biz, Hubertz explained, ...
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Great Big War Game Review
Business Insider
Until Nintendo begins developing games for smartphones and tablets (an
unlikely scenario), Rubicon Mobile's Great Big War Game is the closest
you'll get to enjoying an Advance Wars style experience on iOS and Android.
The sequel to Great Little War ...
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Subatomic Studios Chooses Autodesk for 'Fieldrunners 2' Game Development
MarketWatch (press release)
"With mobile game development, it's all about balancing high-quality and
speed of execution. This marketplace evolves so fast, you have to make a
game in nine months; otherwise, it's going to be history. As a company we
have evolved to create games faster ...
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Korean telcos dangle games as LTE bait
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Country's three operators identify mobile games as key to
broadening appeal of LTE to local users, and hopes to grow subscription to
16 million by end-2012, according to report. Kevin Kwang. By Kevin Kwang |
July 19, 2012 -- Updated 02:14 GMT ...
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Zynga's Mark Pincus discusses how mobile could disrupt the game industry ...
VentureBeat
Mark Pincus, the chief executive, chief product officer, and founder of
Zynga, isn't shy about expressing his opinion. The head of the largest
social-gaming company spoke at our opening fireside chat at
MobileBeat/GamesBeat 2012 last week in front of a ...
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For some Zynga games, mobile produces more revenues per user than Web: CEO
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Some of Zynga's most sophisticated games,
including "FarmVille," generate greater revenue per user on smartphones
than on Facebook's Web-based platform, the company's chief executive, Mark
Pincus, said Wednesday.
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Demolish the Undead in Glu Mobile's Mutant Roadkill
Reuters
July 19, 2012 - Glu Mobile Inc., a leading global developer and publisher
of freemium games for smartphone and tablet devices, today announced the
availability of its new freemium game, Mutant Roadkill. Players are dropped
into Mutant Roadkill's race for ...
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