Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Superslots, The First Dock Dependent App?

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

New Potato has released Super Slots on the App Store. Though Super Slots is for free, the fun won’t start before you bought the company’s exclusive Super Slots iPhone dock.

Read the rest of this entry »

Archetype Signs up 160.000 Gamers in One Week

July 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Archetype, a first person shooter for the iPhone that can be compared to Eliminate from ngmoco, has signed up a staggering 160.000 new gamers in the first week of its release on the App Store.

Read the rest of this entry »

DS Effects Betting Big on HTML 5

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

According to PG, Italian developer DS Effects is betting big on HTML5 apps and games for the iOS platform. The Italians have already released over 150 games for HTML5.

Read the rest of this entry »

US Government Launches App Store

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The US Government has launched an app store to promote official government applications to consumers. Despite Obama’s preference to the Blackberry platform, it only holds iPhone and Web Apps.

Read the rest of this entry »

Greystripe Updates SDK Over The Air

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last week, Greystripe has updated their SDK to be compliant with the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0. This update is the first major update the company executes over the air, without help from the developers.

Read the rest of this entry »

Dutch iPhone Repair Service Warns Consumers About iOS 4.0

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

A Dutch iPhone repair service has sent out a warning to the media that consumers should not upgrade their iPhone 3GS models to iOS 4.0 as there are simply too many problems.

Read the rest of this entry »

Flurry Announces its Privacy Initiative

May 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Flurry, one of the leading analytics companies for in-game statistics, has announced its Flurry Privacy Initiative. With this option, consumers can choose to opt-out of the program.

Read the rest of this entry »

iHobo, Taking the Homeless Onto the iPhone

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

iHobo is a Tamagotchi styled iPhone game that educates consumers about the problems of the homeless. Waste the hobo and the hobo will probably get wasted in return.

Read the rest of this entry »

NPD: Android Sales Overtake iPhone OS

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

For the first time, the sales of Android powered devices overtook the iPhone sales in North America during the first quarter of 2010. Apple sunk only to the third position on the sales charts.

Read the rest of this entry »

Fishlabs Does Volkswagen ‘Again’

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Often, doing a game for a big brand, is something spectacular for a mobile developer. With Fishlabs however, it’s a different thing as they have created about 50% of the Volkswagen apps we see on iTunes.