Mobile Games & Gaming Blog

Hootsuite Acquires SwiftApp

Arjan Olsder — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:13:21 +0100

iPhone developer HootSuite has acquired fellow developer Swift App in order to secure future development of their applications for Google’s Android platform. The announcement follows shortly after...

GDC: Unreal Engine Ready for WebOS

Arjan Olsder — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:39:48 +0100

While we wrote about the unveiling of Unreal Engine 3 for the iPhone last Wednesday, Palm has now surprised us with the announcement that WebOS will also support UE3 based mobile games. The...

iPhone to Allow Multitasking in OS 4.0?

Arjan Olsder — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:33:35 +0100

While iPhoneOS 3.2 hasn’t even been rolled out, the first rumors about iPhone OS 4.0 have started to surface. The biggest update? The iPhone will finally allow multitasking and thus, become a real...

GDC: PocketGamer Award Winners

Arjan Olsder — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:47:43 +0100

Though the Pocket Gamer Readers’ Choice Awards are still running, Pocket Gamer has announced the winners in all other categories at their Awards Night this week. The Pocket Gamer Awards 2010: iPhone...

Unity 3D Expands to Android

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:17 +0100

Unity Technologies has released version 3 of their Unity 3D SDK. The new version of their SDK will not only add support for Sony’s Playstation 3, but also for Google’s Android platform. In version...

Palm Opens Up WebOS with their PDK

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:59:01 +0100

Though Palm’s WebOS SDK offered very limited possibilities for app and game development, the company has now announced their PDK, Plug-In Developer Kit which will change all that. With the PDK,...

Motorola Limits Backflip to Android Market

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:55 +0100

Motorola seems to have limited their new Backflip phone to only allow apps that have been purchased or downloaded over Android Market. With this move, consumers can no longer shop around. At this...

Apple Released iPhone SDK 3.2 B4

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:38 +0100

Today, Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 4 (two weeks after the last one). Though iPhone developers can download the SDK, it will be focused mainly at iPad development. One of the remarkable moves...

Z2Life Adds Voicechat

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:31:29 +0100

An iPhone community we don’t hear much news from, Z2Live, seems to have added something that could leverage them above the competition. The company added voicechat to their platform. With voicechat,...

Metismo Adds Web to Bedrock

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:23:40 +0100

Metismo has announced to start supporting exports of games to the web through a mix of HTML5 and Flash. With many mobile developers using Bedrock, it means they can quickly add yet another platform...

All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:19:05 +0100

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has done something no developer at all would consider. It publicly posted the full Apple developer license agreement and started slamming it. As the foundation...

GDC: GameSpy Expands Mobile Strategy

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:58 +0100

Since March 2009, GameSpy has been offering multiplayer services on the iPhone. Though GameSpy is huge on PC and Console platforms, it didn’t enjoy the same popularity platforms like Crystal and...

GDC: Namco’s Unite SDK

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:21 +0100

Namco is taking their games multiplatform with their Unite SDK. Through the SDK, gamers can challenge each other over different machines but within the same game. This means a PC player could easily...

GDC: PhyreEngine Goes PSP

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:55:00 +0100

PSP Minis developers will soon have the chance of utilizing Sony’s PhyreEngine for their games. The PhyreEngine has been developed for the Playstation 3 and has been converted by ‘public demand’. The...

Spil Games Enters the App Store

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:21 +0100

Until recently, Spill Games’ mobile activities have been mainly limited to Flash games. With the release of Uphill Rush 2, that is changing as the company has chosen to release the game on the App...