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Apple's new player community platform leaves out iPhone 3G and second gen iPod Touch owners
Read More »Google pays $182m for social games studio
Search engine company buys Slide, continues move into gaming market
Read More »Backbreaker gets KFC deal
Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …
Read More »iPhone 4 jailbreak arrives, is effortless
Just days after the US Government deemed the ‘jailbreaking’ of mobile handsets to be legal, the first hack for the iPhone 4 has gone live. What will be more worrying for Apple, however, is the ease with which the new hack can be applied. Users don’t even need access to …
Read More »Google ‘building Facebook games rival’
Insiders claim the search engine giant is building 'a YouTube for gaming'
Read More »Zynga embroiled in Street Racing row
The unyielding level of authority Zynga has over its paying customers was exposed this week, as fans of social network game Street Racing continue to protest an unexplained decision to abolish the game. Those fans, having together invested untold amounts of real money into the Facebook game, have been told …
Read More »PvZ update removes Michael Jackson
Casual games publisher PopCap has confirmed that it will be ditching its use of a zombie character resembling Michael Jackson from future versions of the popular tower defence game Plants vs Zombies. Pop legend Michael Jackson passed away a little over a year ago, and now the Jackson Estate has …
Read More »Apple delays white iPhone 4 again
Having claimed last week that the white version of the iPhone 4 would be launched in key territories by the end of this month, Apple has now indefinitely delayed the arrival of the device. A statement from the firm reads: White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to …
Read More »Manufacturers lambast Apple
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assertion that the iPhone 4 is not alone in experiencing signal degradation when held in a user’s hands has been met with outrage and ridicule in equal measure from rival handset manufacturers. Speaking to a select group of journalists on Friday, Jobs claimed that the iPhone …
Read More »Free bumpers for iPhone 4 owners
Apple has insisted, in the words CEO Steve Jobs, that there is no antennagate” in a frank press conference in America tonight – but has confirmed that all iPhone owners who have bought the device or so before September will receive a free Apple bumper. Jobs insisted that the firm …
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