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by Published on April 20th, 2012 00:36- Categories:
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Stats on where they're played, when they're played, how much money they make and more.
Insights firm Business Degree has created a useful infographic on the rise of mobile gaming.
It leads with a claim that mobile gaming is the most popular app activity, stating that 64 per cent of app users playing them every day.
That puts gaming ahead of weather and social networking, with daily use rates of 60 per cent and 56 per cent respectively.
Additionally, people spend an average of 7.8 hours per month playing mobile games, while iPhone users lead with 14.7 hours of gameplay and BlackBerry trails on 4.5 hours.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-gaming/017787
...by Published on April 20th, 2012 00:35- Categories:
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Geolocation media specialist BIA/Kelsey says search on the mobile platform will exceed search on PCs by 27 billion queries per year.
It adds that mobile search revenues are set to grow at a CAGR of 160.4 per cent to $3.2 billion in 2016, up from $400 million last year.
However, desktop local search revenues will grow from $5.7 billion to $10.2 billion, a CAGR of 12 per cent.
Michael Boland, senior analyst and program director, Mobile Local Media, BIA/Kelsey, said: "It's important to note that while mobile local search volume will exceed its desktop equivalent, ad dollars will remain lower.
"This is because advertisers aren't yet keeping pace with the growth of mobile local ad inventory, but we expect that to evolve."
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by Published on April 19th, 2012 23:24- Categories:
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces that its popular Midway Arcade App is now compatible with iCade, the retro arcade-style cabinet for iPad. The miniature wooden cabinet is perfectly sized for iPad, and connects via Bluetooth to a full-sized joystick and buttons for a genuine arcade experience.
Midway Arcade provides a virtual showroom equipped with 10 classic arcade games, tickets and virtual prizes. The app allows players to enjoy their favorite arcade games, such as Spy Hunter, Joust, Rampage, Defender and more, along with four skill-based games. Players also have the option to purchase additional Midway classics through In-App Purchase. The extra fun in the Fantasy Game Pack includes Gauntlet I, Gauntlet II and Wizard of Wor, while the Action Game Pack unlocks APB, NARC and Total Carnage. Players compete against their friends, earn achievements and dominate online leaderboards.
The Midway Arcade App is available for €0.79/£0.69 from the App Store on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. For consumers that have already purchased Midway Arcade the new iCade support is available with the latest update. The Fantasy Game Pack and Action Game Packs are available for €0.79/£0.69 each through In-App Purchase.
Follow Midway Arcade at:
· http://www.facebook.com/MidwayArcade
· http://twitter.com/MidwayArcade ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 23:02- Categories:
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OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand cloud gaming, announced today that its groundbreaking PlayPack subscription service now offers unlimited, on-demand play of more than 200 incredible console-class games on nearly any device, including dozens of AAA titles with 80+ Metacritic ratings. To celebrate, OnLive is hosting PlayPack 200: 200 hours of nonstop festivities for OnLive fans and newcomers alike, including 200-minute multiplayer events, the PlayPack 200 Sweepstakes and an introductory PlayPack offer featuring one month’s access to all 200+ games for just 200 pence. The limited-time promotion delivers unbelievable value, making hundreds of top-tier titles accessible on PCs, Mac® computers, TVs with the OnLive® Game System, and even Android® tablets for less than the price of a sandwich. After the first month, subscribers can continue to play all these games on demand for just £6.99/month, with new titles added weekly[i].
The OnLive PlayPack is already an incredible value in gaming, featuring everything from blockbuster single and multiplayer games such asHomefront™, F.E.A.R. 3, BioShock, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Just Cause 1 and 2,Borderlands™ and the just added Red Faction: Armageddon, to SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive retro hits, to popular indie titles such as World of Goo andSpace Pirates and Zombies (added today as well). Unlike 90-minute on-demand movies that you might watch once and forget about, PlayPack games offer hours of incredible single-player modes, and many have social-rich multiplayer modes that can last for months on end. And, because the games are hosted in the cloud, subscribers can enjoy unique social features like group voice chat, spectate other players across the world, share achievements and Brag Clip™ videos of their gameplay on Facebook, and even invite friends to jump directly into games they’re playing with instant-launch from their Facebook wall. That’s a lot of entertainment packed into one subscription—with no discs, downloads or specialized hardware needed to enjoy it. PlayPack subscribers simply sign in and play from anywhere[ii], picking up their games whenever they want, from exactly where they left off, and they can check out new additions weekly without paying anything more. The growing list of PlayPack games is available at http://www.onlive.co.uk/playpack.
The PlayPack 200 Celebration runs from today through Saturday, 28 April (7:59am BST). Here are some of the highlights:
· PlayPack 200 Sweepstakes: Receive an entry for every PlayPack game you play for a minimum of 200 seconds each.[iii]Prizes include tablets and controllers!
· Multiplayer Madness Developer Events: Take on game developers and other OnLive members in 200-minute events featuring games such asHomefront and Air Conflicts.
· Brag Clip Event: Post Brag Clip™ videos of your best and worst gaming moments.
· Live interactive streaming broadcasts with the OnLive staff
To find out more about the PlayPack 200 Celebration or to join in, visitwww.onlive.co.uk/playpack. To keep up with the daily Community events, follow OnLive on Facebook or Twitter. ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 22:57- Categories:
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S2 Games, creators of the award-winning MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth (HoN) – announced plans today for a massive multi-regional tournament series, DreamHoN, officially sponsored by Alienware Arena and set to headline at the world's largest LAN event, DreamHack Summer 2012. DreamHoN will feature five-man teams from around the globe facing-off in the massively popular session-based MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth. Teams from North America, Europe, South East Asia (SEA), Oceania, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Korea will all vie for their shot at over $60,000 in prize money and the pride of representing their home territory live at DreamHack Summer 2012 in Jönköping, Sweden. It all kicks off with separate North American, European, and Oceanic qualifiers starting April 23rd.
"We are dedicated to increasing the exposure of our game on a global scale", said Phil Haller, Director of eSports at S2 Games, "There's no better way to do that than taking the best HoN players in the world to one of the biggest eSport events on the planet and let them do what they do best."
Registration for the North American, European, and Oceanic international qualifiers begins April 19th, 2012 and ends April 22nd, 2012. Players should assemble their territory-specific teams and prepare to compete in a two week long qualifier tournament powered by Beyond Gaming. S2 Games' global partners Garena and Ntreev are set to host additional qualifier tournaments in SEA, CIS, and Korea over the next few weeks, making DreamHoN the largest global eSport event in Heroes of Newerth history. The winning team from each international qualifier will receive an all expenses paid invitation to participate in the Live DreamHoN Finals at DreamHack Summer 2012, June 16th – 19th. Additionally, DreamHoN will bring back the ever important DreamHack Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) Qualifiers, which will find one lucky team of DreamHack attendees fighting their way up the ranks and into the hot seat among some of the best competitive HoN teams in the world. The final piece of the puzzle will be the invitation of reigning three-time DreamHack Champions, FnaticRaidCall, who's ready to jump back into the Heroes of Newerth competitive scene just in time for DreamHack Summer 2012.
With DreamHack Summer 2012 hosting some of the biggest games in eSport,DreamHoN will pit each qualified five-man team head-to-head against one another in a grueling single group stage format. When only four teams remain, a single-elimination best-of-three playoff will determine which regions will collide in the best-of-three DreamHoN championship match. Those lucky enough to attend DreamHack Summer 2012 will have the chance to catch theDreamHoN Finals Live from the DreamArena stage where the winning team will be named DreamHoN Summer 2012 Champions. As always, Honcast and S2 Games will provide live coverage of all the DreamHack festivities throughout the event. Additionally, the North American, European, and Oceanic qualifiers will be covered in their entirety by Honcast and through the HoN in-game stream viewer, HoN-TV. Stay tuned for coverage dates and times and check out the DreamHoN launch trailer at .
Teams ready to take their gaming abroad and smash the international competition in the DreamHoN NA, EU, and Oceanic International Qualifiers should visit http://www.dreamhon.com to register and discover what it takes to be a DreamHoN competitor. Once registered, players will be able to create their teams starting at 12am on April 20th. For more information about Heroes of Newerth visit http://www.heroesofnewerth.com. ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 00:36- Categories:
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Vita sales continued to slide in a slow week for both hardware and software sales in Japan.Sony's new handheld shifted just 8250 units, down from 8931 last week.Numbers were down across the board though, with a dearth of new software releases to fuel sales. The 3DS comfortably held onto the top spot, selling 63,796, compared to 72,115 the week prior, while PlayStation 3 held on to second place despite sales falling from 19,370 to 17,765.Here's the full hardware chart, as listed on Andriasang:
- 3DS: 63,796 (Last week: 72,115)
- PlayStation 3: 17,765 (19,370)
- PSP: 13,166 (14,804)
- Vita: 8250 (8931)
- Wii: 6837 (7099)
- Xbox 360: 1373 (3764)
- PlayStation 2: 1212 (1355)
- DSi XL: 800 (793)
- DSi: 633 (743)
There were no big new entries on the software top 20. Last week's chart-topper 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen held on at number one, followed by Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance at two.A number of long-legged 3DS titles performed well. Super Mario 3D Land climbed from six to three, Kid Icarus: Uprising held steady at five, Monster Hunter 3G rose two places to six and Mario Kart 7 was up one at eight.Nine of the top 10 games were for handhelds, and 15 of the top 20.Read on for the full rundown:
- 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen (Namco Bandai, PSP): 34,403 (Life to date: 299,842)
- Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (Square Enix, 3DS): 20,977 (276,788)
- Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 3DS): 18,119 (1,504,812)
- Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, PSP): 17,037 (104,086)
- Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo, 3DS): 15,228 (220,643)
- Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 3DS): 15,047 (1,390,226)
- Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, PS3): 14,485 (131,804)
- Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS): 12,212 (1,649,867)
- Pokémon Conquest (The Pokémon Company, DS): 10,377 (295,974)
- Mario & Sonic at the London Olympics (Nintendo, 3DS): 8254 (131,222)
- Atelier Elkrone: Dear of Otomate (Idea Factory, PSP): 8012 - NEW
- Yakuza: Black Panther 2 (Sega, PSP): 5882 (147,829)
- Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin (Marvelous AQL, 3DS): 4574 (165,182)
- Wii Sports Resort Remote Plus Pack (Nintendo, Wii): 4243 (914,691)
- Monster Hunter Portable 3rd PSP the Best (Capcom, PSP): 3658 (236,467)
- Devil May Cry HD Collection (Capcom, PS3): 3641 (65,245)
- Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 3505 (3,546,938)
- Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 3446 (2,328,169)
- Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai (Sega, 3DS): 3392 (132,689)
- Armen Noir Portable (Idea Factory, PSP): 3254 - NEW
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...r-in-slow-week ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 00:27- Categories:
- PS3 News
While the PS3's media abilities in the US are limited to what it can access via discs or over the network, in Europe / Australia (PlayTV) and Japan (Torne) TV tuners stretch things further. Now, Sony Japan has followed those up with the Nasne headless media box shown above. A combination networked recorder and media storage device with a 500GB SATA HDD and tuners for both antenna and satellite TV built-in, it pulls in broadcasts and either records it or streams to up to two other Sony products (Vita, PS3 with Torne app, Vaio PC, Sony Tablet or Xperia phone) on the same home network at once. It will also support streaming of stored media via DLNA, once its software is updated to version 1.5. The capabilities of the Nasne vary depending on the hardware it's used with: PS3 users can connect up to four of the devices to one console, however it can also export video files formatted for offline viewing on the Vita or transfer recorded files to PCs for Blu-ray archival.
Is this a promising example of the "One Sony" synergy Kaz so recently promised? We'll have to wait until the Nasne ships July 19th for 16,980 yen ($211) to find out for sure. Sadly, like the Torne (which will receive its own 4.0 software update this summer) and Blu-ray recorders that came before it's unlikely we'll ever this one in the US, but that won't stop us from dreaming. A press release with full specs follows after the break, check out Engadget Japan for a few more pictures.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/17/s...b-of-nas-gets/ ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 00:25- Categories:
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Any geek worth his / her salt knows that techdom's territory-spanning intellectual property spats are far from over, so we don't begrudge heavyweights like Nintendo for endeavoring to bulk up their litigious arsenal. Filed back in October of 2003 and just recently granted by the USPTO, is patent number 8,157,654 that gives the Big N ownership of a method to emulate video game consoles bearing built-in displays (think: handhelds) and accompanying software on external computing devices. What does that mean in plain 'ol English, dear gaming fanatic? Well, it could presage a device agnostic service that would break the company's vast backlog of handheld titles out of its walled garden and into the vast consumer wild. Or it could just be another legal armament poised for deployment should the sue-happy titans of the electronics industry come a-calling. Either way, the house that Mario built's got another IP bullet locked and loaded.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/17/n...oles-and-soft/ ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 00:13- Categories:
- Xbox 360 News
Paid-for Xbox Live games and content are enjoying “good growth” in the UK year-on-year, says Microsoft.
In an interview with MCV, Xbox Live’s UK product manager Pav Bhardwaj said this includes Arcade releases, Games on Demand titles and extra add-on content.
“We don’t have any particular numbers as such, but we’ve seen good growth with the arcade titles, and the game add-on business is in growth as well,” he told MCV.
“We’re really pleased with how it’s going. We’re bringing new titles out constantly. We brought out a number of titles a few weeks ago, and now we have Trials Evolution, Minecraft, Bloodforge and Fable Heroes. It’s a new set of amazing IP and some amazing games.”
Sales of Microsoft’s Games on Demand titles, which become available to download online around six months after their retail debut, are also up year-on-year. These are fully priced at around £49.99 each.
“It really is a successful part of our business, we’re very pleased with the growth of Games on Demand and it continues to do really well,” added Bhardwaj. “People are buying the games at full price and downloading them all too.
“Both sides of Microsoft Studios – retail and the Xbox Live marketplace – have been growing year-on-year.”
Microsoft is currently pushing its Arcade Next promotion which consists of four games: Trials Evolution, Fable Heroes, Bloodforge and Minecraft.
“While we wouldn’t talk about specific sales targets, we’re really excited to launch such a strong line-up of titles as part of the Arcade Next promotion,” said Bhardwaj. “With highly recognised IP in Trials, Fable and Minecraft, and a heart-pounding combat experience in Bloodforge, we have high hopes for these titles.
“Specifically, we’ve got big hopes for Minecraft on the Xbox. It does look incredible, it has split-screen multiplayer and is very very true to the PC experience. And then we’re bringing Kinect functionality as well in the future.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/micro...ox-live/094627 ...by Published on April 19th, 2012 00:10- Categories:
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YouTube is looking to hire next-gen game console programmers in an effort to ‘build the next generation game-console-based TV experience.’
The mantra is also the first responsibility for the role under the position’s description on Google Jobs (spotted by IGN).
YouTube currently has an app on Xbox 360, but with the opening’s experience requiring ‘deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and/or Nintendo Wii’ it appears they’re looking to move beyond just a single platform.
Other responsibilities for the position include:
- Deliver a compelling lean back experience with monetization and e-commerce offerings (ie, pay-per-stream, ads),
- Integrate and optimize with distribution channels and devices including all major game platforms.
- Develop leading edge User Interfaces and delight users with innovative media rich solutions.
No official announcements from any of the key players (outside the already released 360 YouTube app) have surfaced as of yet.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/youtu...gration/094634
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