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Supercell cashing in on free-to-play tablet titles
Finnish outfit, Supercell, has announced that its free-to-play iOS apps Hay Day and Clash of Clans are doing very well thank-you-very-much, grossing $500,000 in revenue between them each and every day. That leaves the tablet-focused mobile developer with $350,000 per day after Apple has taken its 30 percent, adding up to in excess of $10m ... Read More»
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Square Enix Explains Why Their iOS, Android Games Cost So Much
Most iPhone, iPad, and Android customers are well acquainted with Square Enix and the rather exorbitant prices they charge for their mobile games. Buy why are they so expensive? According to a recent chat with Kotaku, Square Enix sent out a corporate note though its faceless PR wing explaining how they justify charging $5 to ... Read More»
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Sega Digs Into Retro Pile, Ports Crazy Taxi To iPhone, iPad Devices
Proving that no franchise is too old to make money off Apple customers, Sega is porting their popular Crazy Taxi to iOS. Interestingly enough, the trailer has some of the original music in it. As seen in the trailer below, the brief snippet of gameplay is punctuated by Offspring’s “All I Want,” just one of many tracks ... Read More»
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Bad Piggies: fake version hits 80,000 Chrome users with adware
Bad Piggies, the spin-of to Rovio’s juggernaut Angry Birds franchise has been blitzing the App Store charts since it launched. But today it was revealed that a fake version of the game has stung over 80,000 Google Chrome users with adware viruses. More below. Pocket Gamer reports that security firm Barracuda Networks has revealed that ... Read More»
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Crazy Taxi heading to iOS formats in October, watch the trailer
Crazy Taxi has been announced for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch by Sega for launch this month, but little else has been said. The announcement was made in a new trailer, which you can check out below.
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Offworld Review by Gaming on Batteries
Offworld represents that sorely missing category in mobile gaming- strategy titles, and good ones at that. Taking on the role of the best bounty hunter in the universe, the player is deseiged with tons of battles, that can be replayed to grind up levels, and even an easy to follow along story. While the story ... Read More»
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Agent Dash Review by Gaming on Batteries
James Bond never ran away from danger, he was usually running into it, or at least calmly dismantling the machinations of the evil doctor or mad scientist of whatever movie he was in. For the first time, gamers can take the role of a secret agent, much like James Bond, to infiltrate the the secret ... Read More»
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Wingbreaker Shoots Onto the iOS Platform
If you are a fan of titles like Axelay and it’s slanted forward scrolling overhead levels you will like Wingbreaker, though not as slanted, there is no real way to see very far ahead of your ship. Harrier EX, Firepower 2000 and Tiger Heli fans will probably find something cool here too, though you are ... Read More»
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Carmageddon iOS expected next week
Carmaggedon may arrive on iDevice as early as next week, although Stainless doesn’t seem keen to commit. Speaking to Joystiq, a Stainless founders Patrick Buckland and Neil Barnden said the game is in certification with Apple and “should” hit the App Store next week. The app will be free for the first 24 hours – ... Read More»
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Samurai Empire for iOS Now Available
Fusing two different genres in gaming is a dangerous proposition, few titles actually pull it off well and become more than their parts. We saw Role Playing Games and Bejeweled mixed in Puzzle Quest and many other mixes over the years. Samurai Empire is the first to mix city building with card based battles with ... Read More»
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Super Penguins Preview by Gaming on Batteries
The last time we saw Super Penguins here at Gaming on Batteries, it was the announcement that the ice running birds were hitting the iOS platform. This is a preview of the, hinted at in that news post, Android version of Super Penguins by Supersolid games using the Zeepad 7 inch Android Tablet (why so ... Read More»
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Women Officially Take The Lead As Majority Of Mobile Gamers
More mobile games are played by women than men, says a recent survey conducted by USA Today, effectively making them the largest group of gamers in the world. Times changes everything, it seems. Where most common stereotypes and data have suggested that male players vastly outnumber women in the gaming world, there’s been a total ... Read More»
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Blade Guardian is Mistwalker’s new game, due this week
The next game from the talented team at Mistwalker is an iOS tower defence affair called Blade Guardian, founder Hironobu Sakaguchi revealed on Twitter. Due on October 1, it’s Mistwalker’s second major iOS release after surfing title Party Wave. Hit up Eurogamer for a small gallery of images; informaiton is otherwise a bit thin on ... Read More»
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The Walking Dead Episode 4 release date narrowed down
The Walking Dead Episode 4 has been blessed with a launch window at last, and it’s agreeably soon. Joystiq reports the latest instalment of TellTale’s adventure will arrive in October. Rejoing in the title of Around Every Corner, the new episode was written by Gary Whitta, who penned Book of Eli. The fifth episode, the ... Read More»
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iPhone 5: over 5 million sold and counting
iPhone 5 has sold over 5 million units since it launched on the 21st of September. That’s a lot of money for Apple and a lot of new handheld gaming devices on the streets. An official Apple statement on the explosion of sales also added that over 100 million iPhone users have upgraded to iOS ... Read More»