Mobile

This week’s Macworld Expo has snared headlines thanks to the introduction of ‘the world’s thinnest notebook’, but despite an announcement from EA that Will Wright’s long-awaited Spore will have a simultaneous Mac and PC release, analysts are saying Apple still lacks a real strategy for the games industry. To read …

â??Do the Hudson!â?? content portal to feature one new title per week

LEADING CASUAL games specialist Popcap is to bring its hit titles to the High Street, having signed a significant new agreement with UK value specialist Focus Multimedia. PopCap enters the retail market with a range of well-known titles including Bejeweled 2, Chuzzle and Zuma, which are set to hit shelves …

Contest to encourage software development for Google's new mobile platform

Nokia says testing has added "a couple of weeks" to deployment

Next-Gen reports that global phone giant Nokia has delayed the launch of its new N-Gage mobile games service from this month until later in the year. Rather than focusing on a dedicated gaming handset, as was the case with the first N-Gage, this time round N-Gage will represent a dedicated …

Google is to host a handful of Oberon Media’s casual games on its Orkut service – and developers are being encouraged to create even more for the portal. Oberon has created a toolset that allows devs to create games for social networking sites that support Google’s OpenSocial platform, including MySpace, …

Playlogic is to spearhead its forthcoming PS3 drive with brand new IP as it plans to increase its presence in the UK. A new title is currently in development at the firm’s Netherlands operation, and Playlogics executive VP Rogier Smit (pictured) told MCV that there will be more PS3 titles …

'Indie Developer Programme' spearheaded by mobile games publisher

'Indie Developer Programme' spearheaded by mobile games publisher