Trusted Reviews – A new combined report from IDC and App Annie has discovered that mobile games accounted for 75 per cent of the handheld gaming market last year. Despite significant growth for the Nintendo 3DS and a strong software line-up for the handheld, it was still totally outmatched by the spending on mobile platforms. Overall, spending in the Android Google Play Store increased in Q4 2014 by four times when compared to the same period the year before. iOS App Store spending also increased, doubling the figures achieved in Q4 2012 this year. In total, global revenue generated in…

Gamespot – Prominent Nintendo shareholder Seth Fischer, one of Asia’s most distinguished hedge fund managers, has urged the company to break with its decades-old strategy of only releasing software on proprietary systems and instead develop and sell mobile games for iOS and Android devices. “Nintendo needs to embrace this thematic change in consumer demand, behavior, and expectations to stay relevant,” Fischer said in a letter addressed to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and obtained by Reuters. Fischer is the chief investment officer at Hong Kong-based Oasis Capital Management, which owns shares of Nintendo. The company maintains that releasing its content on…

Trusted Reviews – Mobile games dominated the handheld gaming market during 2013, accounting for the majority of sales. A new combined report from IDC and App Annie has discovered that mobile games accounted for 75 per cent of the handheld gaming market last year. Despite significant growth for the Nintendo 3DS and a strong software line-up for the handheld, it was still totally outmatched by the spending on mobile platforms. Overall, spending in the Android Google Play Store increased in Q4 2014 by four times when compared to the same period the year before. iOS App Store spending also increased,…

Sydney Morning Herald – While queuing up in the EA business area at Gamescom in Cologne last year, waiting to get hands-on time with the likes of Titanfall and Battlefield 4, I was startled to see a familiar title stuck on one of the area’s many doors. I saw “Dungeon Keeper” and gasped, then turned to the EA staff member who was taking me to my appointments. “You’re remaking Dungeon Keeper?” I asked. “Oh yes,” she said. “Didn’t you know?” “No!” I almost shouted. “How did I not know about this? I love Dungeon Keeper!” “Oh, would you like a…

International Game Technology (IGT – Analyst Report) will provide its online and mobile games to Betsson, a Maltese sports betting and gaming company. Betsson will have access to IGT’s wide array of free-to-play and casino style games through IGT’s remote gaming server (IGT rgs). GT will offer popular game titles like Cleopatra, Da Vinci Diamonds, MONOPOLY plus and 100 Pandas to Betsson. These mobile-based games are compatible with Apple’s (AAPL – Analyst Report) iOS devices as well as with Google’s (GOOG – Analyst Report) Android-based devices, enabling the game to reach out to a large number of gamers. Recently, IGT…