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  • Digital Chocolate Chooses GetJar to Exclusively Debut its Android Games

    Posted on January 11, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Playmesh Tops the Charts with #1 Game on the iPhone: iFarm downloaded 1 million times in 10 days

    Playmesh Tops the Charts with #1 Game on the iPhone: iFarm downloaded 1 million times in 10 days

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the [...]

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  • Battery Tests Confirm iPhone 3GS Improvements, But Complaints Linger

    Battery Tests Confirm iPhone 3GS Improvements, But Complaints Linger

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Many iPhone 3GS owners are complaining about their handset’s battery life falling short of expectations. Their units are likely defective, because Wired.com was not able to replicate the issue through rigorous battery testing. In response to a query about the iPhone 3GS’ battery life, 25 readers e-mailed Wired.com citing issues with battery life, and 11 expressed [...]

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  • So Mafia games are really popular?

    So Mafia games are really popular?

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    I guess Mafia games are a big hit these days. Zynga's Mafia Wars, a multiplayer game that's playable on social networks like Facebook, as well as the iPhone, has attracted some 4 million gamers to its clutches. (This, despite the fact that it's more or less a rip-off of the earlier Mafia Life game.) Part of the game's success, I think, can be attributed to the fact that, unlike in games like World of Warcraft, there's not as much of a social stigma attached to “whacking” rival mobsters—slaying dragons and whatnot is still sorta “nerdy,” something that good ol' Cnet says, too. So we're in good company here.

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