The latest App Annie report on 1Q 2013 mobile game trends is provocative reading.
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And Omaha-based SkyVu Entertainment encourages volunteers to test its mobile game franchise Battle Bears.
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All spare time would be used to create a mobile game for the iPhone.
The mobile game app, Brisksaber, brings the iconic Star Wars lightsaber battles to smartphones.
Prior acquisitions also include mobile game developer NewToy and Texas-based Bonfire Studios.
The company is also launching the mobile game platform with more than 60 games.
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Ultimately, it is a bit early to call Google out of the mobile game.
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Angry Birds has clearly moved beyond the realm of being just a mobile game.
In July 2011 Wooga released Diamond Dash for iOS, which was its first mobile game.
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Fischer, who runs Lightning Toads with his brother Alan, juggled Hausbarn along with other mobile game projects.
One hundred and fifty-five thousand people downloaded the mobile game, and 70, 000 redeemed the coupon in stores.
To that end, both have been pushing out mobile titles and making acquisitions of mobile game developers.
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The latest company to do so is Rovio, the brand behind the ultra successful mobile game Angry Birds.
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The company has attempted to offset its losses (and quell investor worries) with a venture into mobile game publishing.
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You could almost be starring in your own Hollywood movie by playing a console game or a mobile game.
After the first month or two, more than half of the mobile game revenue is typically generated by in-game purchases.
An evaluation version of Autodesk Scaleform for Unity and mobile game development is currently available on the Autodesk Gameware website.
At E3 2012, Japanese mobile game developer GREE had a huge presence, as did the US-bound WeMade Entertainment.
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Will old giants like Disney and Electronic Arts end up adapting to the mobile game ecosystem and push the upstarts aside?
Back in February 2010, just a few months after game came out, the cinematic trailer for the first mobile game launched.
Mobile phone users could download a mobile game, after which Puma sent them a coupon for a free phone toy accessory.
The consumer attention is shifting from the grand, 10- or 30-year old console game franchises to nimble new mobile game brands.
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Smartphones are quickly becoming powerful mobile game consoles with the sorts of functionality and gameplay you would expect from a home console.
This is how freemium games, which is the direction most mobile game developers and publishers are going these days, can become money-generators.
On a press call on Thursday morning, the social games company said that it had purchased a mobile game developer, Newtoy.
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The real value of a mobile game lies in its upgrade pathway.
Are we entering the end game for the mobile game console industry?
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Factors contributing to its cyclical and greatly exaggerated demise include rampant mobile game growth and declining subscriptions for MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) titles.
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Horn supposedly clocks in around 10 hours, which is pretty long for a mobile game but pales in comparison to many console titles.
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As a result, any change in a mobile game is very difficult to implement across a network of players using different hardware and networks.
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