26
Jul
2009
Alawar Entertainment announces Farm Frenzy for iPhone
Farm sim comes to iPhone and iPod Touch.
Alawar Entertainment, a leading publisher of casual games, today announced the release of the iPhone version of Farm Frenzy. Users of the popular iPhone platform can now play one of the most successful casual games in history and put their abilities to the test in the award-winning farming sim.
Released in November 2007, the PC version of Farm Frenzy was an immediate chart-topper at Real Networks, Oberon, MSN, BigFish Games, Pogo, iWin, Reflexive and other portals. By early 2008, Farm Frenzy had become one of the best-selling games Alawar had ever published. Read the rest of this entry »
24
Jul
2009
EA gets into the cheap, fast game market on iPhone
EA has seen the iPhone as a place to release $10 ports of its big-name properties, but a new EA studio will go in the other direction with inexpensive, high-concept titles. The first game? Yup, it involves zombies.
EA’s approach to iPhone gaming has been to recreate its most successful properties as high quality, high price games. The games created have been pretty great so far, but success on the iPhone often goes to cheaper, high-concept titles, and EA has decided to get in on that action as well: the publishing giant has created a small studio called 8lb Gorilla to create easy to learn, inexpensive games for the iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »
19
Jul
2009
Microsoft as Sony, Nintendo and Sony
Each generation of consoles see lines move between different manufacturers, so the market has changed during this generation next-gen, during which Microsoft has implemented the strategy of Sony, as Sony and Nintendo.
The video game industry is made of twists, successes, failures. Sega and its very good Dreamcast saw by Microsoft to reveal the unexpected challenger console show. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo each other to better himself to fight: Nintendo relying on a strong supply of First Party Games, Sony creating a strong partnership with the Third Party studios to offer consumers a wide range of successful titles . Strategies that have evolved over the past three years. Read the rest of this entry »
