Mobile Games

Could Mobile Phones Kill Consoles? Not A Chance
Cinema Blend
We also have to look at the factor of high-end mobile games not being
completely compatible with every phone out there. Even if you have a couple
hundred million people with iPhones it doesn't mean they all have the
latest iPhone 4s or the newest iPad, ...
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Mobile 'Edutainment' App For Kids Pluto Games Raises $500K From YouWeb And
Others
TechCrunch
Learn More Pluto Games, a mobile 'edutainment' platform for kids, has
raised $500000 in seed funding from incubator YouWeb and angel investors
including co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake Dave Roux; Brett Wander,
Chief Investment Officer at Charles ...
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Dream Zoo Helps Zynga Bump Its Daily Active Users on Mobile to 13M
Inside Social Games
In the third quarter ending in September, Zynga had 9.9 million daily
active users on its mobile games, a number that was already a tenfold
increase over what it had at the beginning of 2011, when its games had
issues cracking the top 50 on the iOS top ...
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Angry Birds turns two this weekend. Rovio celebrates in style.
VentureBeat
The smash hit mobile game Angry Birds turns two on Dec. 11, having been
downloaded over half a billion times since launch. To celebrate the
occasion, Rovio is offering up new levels, menus and special 'birdday'
achievements, which will be made ...
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GREE wants you ... to work for it San Francisco (and play its games)
Games.com News (blog)
In other words, GREE looks like it's doing everything in its power to
ensure that it catches up with competitors like DeNA and its ngmoco-powered
Mobage mobile game network. (Zynga has also revealed that it has quite the
following on mobile devices.) ...
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Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic: Game gives players chances to impress
Montgomery Advertiser
For the first time, the game will not be played in Mobile's Ladd-Peebles
Stadium. But changing the venue to Cramton Bowl doesn't change the fact
that the high school all-star football game is generally one of the most
hotly contested of its kind. ...
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November video game software sales rise 15%
Los Angeles Times
The first is that console games are dead. The second is that mobile and
social games killed console games." Conversely, dollar sales of consoles
and other gaming hardware declined, mostly because of price cuts that have
occurred in the last year. ...
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=== Blogs - 1 new result for [Mobile Games] ===

Inside Mobile Apps · Life is Crime-Maker Red Robot Labs Expands ...
By Kathleen De Vere
You've gotta make great games if you want people to buy it." Red Robot is
one of a handful of mobile game developers that is backed by a top-tier
venture capital firm. The company has a notable team behind it with Ouye
bringing expertise in ...
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=== Web - 2 new results for [Mobile Games] ===

Mobile Gaming Survey: Most Cell Phone Users Play Games | Ask ...
Mobile gaming is becoming very popular among cell phone users. What types
of games are they playing, and are they becoming addicted?
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Mobile Gaming Market | Mind Commerce
Mobile games are usually downloaded via the mobile operator's radio
network, but in some cases are also loaded into the mobile handsets when
purchased, via ...
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