Category Archives:
Games

« First« Previous234567891011

Selatra logo Mobile gaming: Optimus launches cross-platform portal with Selatra

Published on Wednesday, November 3rd by Cian O' Sullivan

Today sees some great news for Irish mobile gaming veterans Selatra. The Cork-based company has announced that it has launched a cross-platform mobile gaming portal for Portuguese operator Optimus. Continue reading →

Angel's Choice screenshot VC training tool for iPhone app investors revealed

Published on Monday, October 25th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Rating tool heavily disguised as a game

Branded as the first iPhone game for application discovery, GoMo News suspects that Angel’s Choice from YD Online is actually a heavily disguised training tool aimed at those plenty to invest in iPhone apps. You play against others to see what applications they recommend but in reality you tap into an experienced source of experts – iPhone gamers. It’s not quite clear how the game closely tracks actual downloads from the iPhone App store but you can download apps from within the ‘game’. Continue reading →

EA logo Mobile marketing and games: GetJar nabs EA Mobile exec

Published on Thursday, October 21st by Cian O' Sullivan

We don’t usually cover new hires here at GoMo, but in this case I’m willing to make an exception. Independent mobile app store GetJar has announced that the Head of Channel Marketing at EA Mobile in the UK has joined the company as the director of UK marketing. Continue reading →

Angry Birds Angry Birds for Android hits GetJar before Market

Published on Friday, October 15th by Cian O' Sullivan

Rating: Unlike Microsoft, it’s actually approved

I can’t resist this story. The full Android version of Angry Birds, the incredibly successful touch-screen game, has launched on GetJar. And this is its debut – it is on GetJar before the Android Market! Continue reading →

Kingmaker on HTC handset Mobile meets Xbox with Fable III: Kingmaker

Published on Tuesday, October 5th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Buffoons need not apply

How about this for a collision of technologies? To exploit the growing popularity of geo-location based social gaming experience Microsoft and Lionhead Studios have created a novel mobile app for fans of the Fable game. Mobile meets dedicated games console. Could this mean that hordes of Xbox games freaks start tearing around Europe planting virtual flags in order to gain a higher game status? Maybe. Continue reading →

Quno SCVNGR Location-based mobile gaming coming to UK train stations

Published on Thursday, September 2nd by Cian O' Sullivan

Quno is a web-based service for rail travelers that will be launching later this year – and it has announced that it will be integrating mobile gaming into the train system. With location-based mobile games developer SCVNGR, passengers will be able to take part in challenges and earn points while waiting for their train. Continue reading →

neonplay UK can take a slice of $250m monthly app market says Neon Play

Published on Thursday, August 26th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Brit firm achieves 0.25m iPhone downloads in 1 day

A enterprising British software house, Neon Play, has achieved an impressive 0.25 million downloads in just one day for its Golf Putt Pro game for the iPhone. That has promoted the company to Number Two in the UK and US free iPhone download charts. This means that neon Play has managed over one million iPhone downloads for its first two games. Its CEO is now calling for UK government support. Continue reading →

Nokia_N-Gage PSP Phone won’t suffer from the same problems as N-Gage

Published on Thursday, August 12th by Cian O' Sullivan

The news that Sony is planning to release its own phone is being widely reported. Starting with a report on Engadget, the news that Sony Ericsson seems to be designing a mobile device that combines portable gaming (via the PSP) with mobile technology (via Android) has been happily received – by most. But an immediate comment I heard was “hasn’t this already been tried? The N-Gage from Nokia was a complete disaster!” And so I present the reasons that a PSP Phone won’t suffer the same problems as the N-Gage. Continue reading →

cycle_hire London cycle hire Android app from Fluffy Toys

Published on Tuesday, August 3rd by Tony Dennis

Rating: Uses crowdsourcing and Skyhook location awareness

An Android app to help Londoners take full advantage of the capital’s new cycle hire scheme has been released by a company calling itself Little Fluffy Toys Ltd. The app claims to provide up-to-date information on cycle availability by using a technique called ‘crowdsourcing’. It also leverages location technology provided by Skyhook. Continue reading →

« First« Previous234567891011