Mobile

Atari Europe’s superhero MMO Champions Online will officially become a free-to-play title on January 25th. Developer Cryptic first revealed its intention to remove mandatory subscription charges back in October. Though the game will be free to play to all, a number of premium additions will also be available to purchase. …

Just hours after going live yesterday afternoon, Apple’s Mac App Store has already been hacked by pirates. Bizarrely, however, the team behind the crack has said it won’t publicly release the exploit until next year in case it upsets developers. When the public do get their hands on the software, …

70 per cent royalty rate on offer for app devs

Online gaming firm Bigpoint is bringing some of its most popular titles to iPhone, iPad and Android devices in the first half of this year. Those games include Farmerama and Zoomumba, which both regularly attract more than one million concurrent players online. Bigpoint will also launch a new game, Toon …

Gamers who find themselves frustrated by the lack of tactile feedback on the iPad may be interested in a new accessory coming from American peripherals specialist Ten One. Called the Fling, the device uses two suction caps to attach itself to the corner of the iPad. Housed in the accessory …

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Major coup as the Mobage platform will be pre-loaded into Samsung smartphones