Category Archives: Games
From Mobile to Facebook: pan-platform social gaming is coming
A significant but easily overlooked move happened yesterday. Glu Mobile launched one of it’s games, Gun Bros., on social sites Facebook, Wild Tangent and hi5. Why is this so significant? Because it represents the growing trend that will see social gaming becoming a pan-platform experience. Continue reading
Worst kept secret or publicity stunt – Xperia Play?
Rating: More rumours about the SE Android PlayStation handset
A catch up on the rumours of the PlayStation Android handset which we last mentioned here ‘Sony’s Qriocity music may run on Android‘. The handset’s existence was described over the weekend by the Sunday Times as “either the worst-kept secret in the world of technology or [...]
Mobile social gaming: Scoreloop adds 1 million gamers per week
Those who have any doubt that mobile social gaming will be (or is) a force to be reckoned with should just read on. One of the early drivers behind the industry is Scoreloop – and the company has just announced that it is currently adding one million gamers to it’s platform every week. Continue reading
Mobile gaming: Nokia still dominates, says BuzzCity
BuzzCity is an extremely wide-spectrum mobile media company – and amongst its many products is the highly popular gaming service Djuzz. BuzzCity has released stats from the service showing the most popular devices used for gaming worldwide, and showcasing the habits of highly succesful games developers. Continue reading
Social mobile gaming sees massive Christmas surge
Apparently the best way to avoid awkward family dinners and bad TV reruns on Christmas are to do some gaming on your phone. And emerging figures really support that idea. Today, mobile social gaming company Scoreloop reports a huge leap in games played on Christmas Day. Continue reading
Ireland now a Top 10 mobile barcode scanner – thanks to augmented reality gaming?
US barcode powerhouse Scanbuy has released it’s latest batch of stats concerning mobile barcode scans. Amongst other things it showed incredible growth in scans in the US, driven by shopping over the holiday season. However, it also showed that Ireland has popped into the Top 10 countries scanning barcodes on it’s platform for the very first time. I have an idea about what might have caused that.
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Smartphone games will go console & vice versa
Rating: we’ll sell 100 million copies of Angry Birds says Rovio
Very interesting remarks made by Ville Heijari, a vp with Finland’s Rovio, makers of the addictive game Angry Birds. Talking to the Sunday Times, Heijari says that his company’s game engage “with people who don’t normally play games at all.” Yet Rovio is planning to do the exact opposite and produce version of Angry Birds which will run on the PS3, Xbox and Wii plus the Mac and PC. All strong games platforms. So the two worlds – dedicated games consoles and smartphones – are already colliding. What’s going to happen next? Console games are going to go smartphone while smartphone games go the other way. Continue reading
A look into Mobile Gaming in 2011 from PapayaMobile
The year that saw Android devices come in to their own is quickly drawing to a close. At PapayaMobile we’ve been at the center of Android gaming throughout 2010 and we’d like to share with you our own predictions for what to expect in the coming year ahead. Continue reading
Apple in free Xmas app giveaway
Rating: Get your free copy of Fishing Kings fast
Here at GoMo News we’ve been wondering whether Apple really was going to give away a free app as part of its 12 Days of Xmas iTunes promotion. See our previous story here. Well, on the fourth Day Of Xmas, it has. None other than Fishing Kings [...]
BuzzCity says content localisation and featurephone support are key
BuzzCity says content localisation and featurephone support are key
Mining the data it compiles from its monthly Djuzz charts, enigmatic content provider – BuzzCity – has concluded that content localisation and featurephone support are going to prove key factors in 2011. Dr. BuzzCity CEO, Dr KF Lai, says that, “Localisation is one of the key elements required to better engage mobile users and it’s likely that this trend will further develop in 2011.” By localisation, Dr Lai doesn’t mean just throwing a couple of local celebrities into the mix. He also believes that support for languages other than English will prove critical. Continue reading
Group buying gets bigger: OpenFeint applies Groupon to mobile games
OpenFeint is one of the more exciting mobile gaming platforms out there at the moment. It’s not just a great place to go and discover new games – it also provides a robust social networking engine for mobile gamers. And it works cross-platform; Android and iPhone gamers can chat and actually play games against one another. In fact, when you want to know what trends are hot in mobile gaming, OpenFeint is a good place to look. And today they’ve announced a new “Groupon” style deal for game developers. Continue reading
Mobile gambling: applications will drive Christmas gaming, says 32Red
32Red is a major force in on-line gambling. Running since 2002, it is one of the top online casinos in the UK. Having reported a major surge in on-line access over Christmas 2009, 32Red is looking forward to a similar spike this year – but is also anticipating a surge in mobile access.
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Augmented reality mobile game begins in Dublin… unless you’ve got an Android
I was on Dublin’s light rail system last night – on the interior of the carriage, I spotted an ad with an interesting QR Code on it. It looked like it had been carved in stone, and advertised an augmented reality game called Copan. Intrigued, I got out my smartphone to access the website… only to discover it doesn’t bloody work on Android. Continue reading
MocoSpace mobile gamers spend big bucks on digital goods
MocoSpace is the biggest mobile pure-play social network in the States, with 15 million users – and when it announced in September that it was massively expanding it’s browser-based mobile gaming platform, we were eager to see what the results would be like. Now it has released a look into how MocoSpace gamers have been using the platform; and it claims that it’s users spend almost 13 times the amount of cash on virtual goods as Facebook games.
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Social mobile games from Glu grab 1 million downloads each
One of the big growth areas in mobile applications at the moment is social mobile gaming – where the developer provides gamers with a platform to play games against one another, chat, store scores and more. Games developer Glu Mobile has announced that two of its first releases in the social mobile gaming arena have each attracted over 1 million downloads from iTunes within a few weeks of launch. Continue reading
