News by Clark A. Sega’s free-to-play JRPG/card game hybrid, Chain Chronicle, has been going strong for a solid year in Japan on both iOS and Android. As of late June, the game racked up somewhere in the ballpark of a whopping $72 million USD for its miscellaneous purchasable content. The…
Read MoreOver the last few months we have seen developers and publishers really clue in to the marketing value of companion applications. What’s a companion app? One that is released onto the iOS or Android stores to coincide with the release of a major console game. Last year around the time…
Read MoreNintendo is a big corporation that is usually run intelligently. At a time where the world economy (and Japan more than most) is diving better than the Chinese Olympic team can Nintendo has held things together and not suffered too badly. But that’s not to say it’s incapable of making…
Read MoreSmartphone and tablet developer and publisher, Gameloft, has announced a spectacular first quarter for 2012. Total sales for he quarter hit EUR44.8 million which is an increase of 14 per cent on the same time period last year. Asia-Pacific and Latin America are the biggest revenue earners for the publisher,…
Read MoreIt’s happened again: an analyst has come out and questioned why Nintendo is not involving itself in the smartphone space. That comment was in response to Nintendo’s year-end financial loss, which was a first for the company, and predictably the Nintendo community is up in arms over the comment. But…
Read MoreIt’s happened again: an analyst has come out and questioned why Nintendo is not involving itself in the smartphone space. That comment was in response to Nintendo’s year-end financial loss, which was a first for the company, and predictably the Nintendo community is up in arms over the comment. But…
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