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• Article | 12/05/2012 MediaTek and Gameloft team up to put more games on phones

  Semiconductor company MediaTek and Gameloft have joined forces to develop games for phones based on MediaTek's chipsets, they announced on Friday.
• Article | 10/05/2012 PopCap Games CEO: Android still too fragmented, China helping company innovate

  Android's increased fragmentation across hardware devices and OS versions, and its lack of a central app store, have left game developers disappointed...
• Article | 10/05/2012 Angry Birds reaches 1 billion downloads

  Rovio announced today that its Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than one billion times, an astounding accomplishment for a simple slingshot...
• Article | 10/05/2012 Angry Birds maker Rovio plans for amusement parks in China

  Mobile game publisher Rovio is planning to build theme parks in China revolving around its hit product Angry Birds, months after a local amusement par...
• Article | 3/05/2012 Lenovo-backed firm sidesteps hardcore gamers, with Chinese video game system

  The Lenovo-backed company behind China's newest homegrown video game system is aiming for product sales to reach hundreds of thousands of units over t...
• Article | 2/05/2012 German court grants Motorola an injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox

  Motorola Mobility won an injunction on Wednesday preventing distribution of Microsoft products including Windows 7 and the Xbox in Germany, but it can...
• Article | 2/05/2012 Japan's Gree to buy U.S. mobile game maker Funzio for US$210 million

  Japanese mobile game provider Gree said Wednesday it will buy California-based developer Funzio for US$210 million.
• Article | 1/05/2012 Angry Birds Space rockets to 50 million downloads in 35 days

  Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous...
• Article | 27/04/2012 Nintendo to begin digital sales of mainstream titles for 3DS

  Nintendo will launch sales of digital versions of mainstream 3DS titles through retailers, beginning with a new Super Mario Brothers game in August, i...
• Article | 26/04/2012 Nintendo misses annual sales target for 3DS games console

  Nintendo said Thursday it missed its annual sales target for the 3DS handheld game console, despite repeated promises from the company that price cuts...
• Article | 25/04/2012 Skype app released for Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld

  Internet telephony operator Skype has released an app for Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld game console.
• Article | 24/04/2012 Motorola wins round at ITC in Xbox patents dispute

  The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft infringed on patents of Motorola Mobility in its Xbox games console.
• Article | 19/04/2012 Sony releases developer tools for hardware-independent PlayStation games

  Sony has released a set of programming tools for its PlayStation Suite, a new push to expand the PlayStation platform beyond the company's own gaming ...
• Article | 19/04/2012 Draw Something adds undo, picture sharing, and chat

  Now you can more easily mock or applaud your friends' artwork in Draw Something. An update to the hugely popular doodling game released Wednesday intr...
• Article | 17/04/2012 Sony announces digital media hub for its PlayStation, PC, tablet, phone lines

  Sony will launch a new digital media recorder designed to capture and stream video to Sony-made PlayStation game consoles, PCs, tablets and smartphone...