Items tagged with mobile gaming
Niantic, the company behind popular mobile titles such as Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter Now, alongside several other games, will be selling off most of its gaming division for $3.5 billion. However, the company is opting to hold onto AR experiences Peridot and Ingress, which will be part of its new mission going...
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Fan favorite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete gets an official release date for iOS and Android. The current free-to-play version, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, will shut down after a seven year run on November 29, 2024.
Animal Crossing: New Horizon players were saddened when Nintendo announced the 2.0 update...
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The long running Destiny franchise is getting a mobile entry thanks to a partnership between Bungie and NetEase. Destiny: Rising will be a free-to-play shooter that is part of the official Destiny universe and will include both PvE and PvP modes. It will be coming to both Android devices and iPhones. This could be...
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Pocketpair, developer of smash hit Palworld, isn’t letting anything stop it from trying to expand the game’s reach, not even a lawsuit from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. A few weeks ago, the game appeared at Sony’s State of Play event to reveal that it’s coming to the PlayStation 5 for territories outside of...
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Flappy Bird is back after originally being removed from mobile app stores 10 years ago, revived by the Flappy Bird Foundation. The announcement of the game’s return was posted on its official X account, saying “I AM BACK!! Just a decade ago, I was the talk of the town and soaring to new heights with my 100 million...
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The age old debate between PC and console gamers as to which platform is superior may have some more information to add to the fire with an unexpected surprise. Visual Capitalist recently published an infographic depicting the last 50 years of video game revenue, including all potential platforms.
Starting in the...
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It seems Lenovo is jumping into the gaming handheld arena with its very own Legion Go. New leaked images show the device in all its glory, sporting detachable controllers like the Nintendo Switch.
The mobile gaming landscape has begun to get more crowded over the last couple of years. Nintendo seemed to own the...
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Valve has added refurbished Steam Decks to its Steam Store, offering triple-digit savings over a new handheld. The company says that all certified refurbished Steam Decks have been thoroughly tested to meet the same high standards as its retail units.
Many gamers have enjoyed being able to game on the go via a...
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Niantic, the creator of the immensely popular Pokémon Go game, informed its employees that it would be laying off 230 employees and shutting down two of its other titles. Founder John Hanke said the decision came due to the studio's "expenses [growing] faster than revenue."
Niantic is a company whose vision is to...
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PlayStation Showcase was slammed full of news about new games, upcoming content, and even a sneak peek at the company's new gaming handheld device, Project Q. The new handheld will launch later this year with a stunning 8-inch LCD screen capable of up to 1080p resolution at 60fps.
The landscape of gaming handhelds...
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Supply chain sources in Taiwan have indicated that NVIDIA and MediaTek are going to snuggle-up to produce premium mobile SoCs. The plan may be to give MediaTek's products a graphical and AI processing uplift, allowing the firm to better compete with the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung in the flagship mobile and mid to...
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The once highly popular mobile game franchise Angry Birds could have a new owner soon. Reports are saying Sega may be looking to buy Angry Birds game developer Rovio Entertainment for a cool $1 billion.
Rovio Entertainment is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology...
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Hardware benchmarks specialist, Basemark, is getting ready to release a new product called ‘GPUScore: In Vitro’. In brief, In Vitro is claimed to be the world’s first ray tracing technology benchmark for mobile devices. The tool has been crafted to provide users and reviewers a good reference point for judging new and...
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Xbox CEO Phil Spencer insists that the Activision Blizzard acquisition is more about Candy Crush than Call of Duty (COD). The $68.7 billion deal still faces an "in-depth" investigation by the European Commission before it can be finalized.
When Microsoft announced its desire to purchase Activision Blizzard, some...
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Another gaming handheld has entered the market, as Logitech announces the launch of its cloud enabled Logitech G CLOUD Gaming Handheld. The new device is being billed as "a purpose-built gaming device for cloud gaming," and you can pre-order one now at a $50 savings.
Valve has been impressing gamers with its Steam...
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Sony eyes the mobile gaming market as it agrees to acquire Savage Game Studios in order to develop "a AAA mobile live service action game." The announcement was made via a Sony blog post this morning, which included CEO and Co-founder of Savage Game Studios Michail Katkoff.
Sony has been attempting to go beyond its...
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NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming service is adding support for smooth 120fps mobile gaming to a much wider range of Android devices. However, there are a couple of requirements that you will need to meet in order to get that type of performance.
Mobile gaming has been growing in popularity, as more and more...
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In just a mere two weeks, Diablo Immortal has been able to garner $24 million in micro-transactions. Blizzard Entertainment's free-to-play game was downloaded nearly 8.5 million times over the same time period, with 26% of those being in the United States.
Blizzard's Diablo Immortal is a new mobile game that is set...
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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud streaming service added Fortnite today to its already large library of games it supports. The full launch removes the waitlist that existed prior to today, and enables all current and new members with the opportunity to stream the extremely popular battle-royale game on both iOS and Android...
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Boost Mobile is ripping a page from mobile gaming by taking advantage of gamification in order to earn free wireless service. The mobile provider is introducing the new business model "as a stepping stone into the future for wireless consumers."
With everything costing more these days, being able to trim your...
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Mobile gaming and non-game app adoption and spending really took off in 2020. However, market trend started normalize in 2021, and worldwide consumer spending should reach $133 billion on in-app purchases, premium apps, and subscriptions. That includes spending on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, but Apple is...
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With Thanksgiving over and the Black Friday rush over at many retailers, you might think the deals are over but we have some early Cyber Monday deals ahead of tomorrow's main etail event on Speakers, WiFi 6 Mesh networking systems and some other great PC tech gear. After taking the family out shopping, you should take...
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