Temple Run, Imangi Studios' running game that has been downloaded more than 45 million times on iOS, is now available for Android.
The Washington-based studio confirms in a press release that Temple Run is available now as a free download from Google Play, the new name for Google's download store following a thorough rebranding of its online services including Android Market.
Epic Games and Virtual Heroes have announced a licensing agreement that will enable the US government and its allies to use Epic's Unreal Engine.
Announced in a press release, the deal will see Virtual Heroes supply Unreal technology to US government departments, agencies and units, as well as those of its allies, through a new platform, Unreal Government Network (UGN).
Former Microsoft vice president Ed Fries has been appointed to the board of directors of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).
Xbox 360 users now spend more time consuming movies, TV shows and music online than they do playing games, according to Microsoft.
Xbox marketing boss Yusuf Mehdi told the LA Times that Xbox 360 owners spend an average of 84 hours a month using Xbox Live services, up 30 per cent from a year ago, and that just over half of that time is spent on videos and music.
"What we're seeing is that people are turning on the Xbox to play games and then keeping it on afterwards to get other types of entertainment," he said.
THQ and Adidas have “amicably resolved” a dispute over a fitness game designed to tie in with the sports equipment firm’s miCoach digital exercise measurement system.
The games publisher entered into a development agreement in December 2010 to create a product provisionally titled miCoach 24/7, which should have been released in January 2012, according to court filings.
UK videogame software sales surpassed video sales for the first time in 2011, according to data released by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).
Despite slowing physical game sales, the growing popularity of digital downloads and apps helped drive the UK games market to sales of £1,926 million last year, ahead of video sales of £1,802 million and music sales of £1,066 million.
The Eve Online Council Of Stellar Management member yesterday accused of mocking a "suicidal" player at the Eve Fanfest last weekend has issued a public apology saying that he is "utterly ashamed and sickened".
The Australian city of Canberra will pilot an R18+ rating from this week, ahead of a national introduction in 2013.
The rating has been a long time coming, and follows the submission of the R18+ bill to parlianment in February this year.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has criticised parents who fail to adhere to videogame age restrictions.
The association's general secretary Mary Bousted has said that students are being allowed to stay up till early morning, playing games inappropriate to their age, and are becoming desensitised to aggression and bloodshed.
Warner Bros. Interactive has signed a deal with Codemasters to handle its international distribution, sales and marketing, taking over from THQ.
Warner Bros. will focus on the US, Canadian and South American markets, starting with DiRT: Showdown and F1 2012.
"Distribution remains an important part of our business and adding Codemasters' slate of titles dovetails nicely into our strategy to deliver consumers a range of quality games," said senior vice president of sales, America Kevin Kebodeaux.
Warner Bros. Interactive has signed a deal with Codemasters to handle its international distribution, sales and marketing, taking over from THQ.
Warner Bros. will focus on the US, Canadian and South American markets, starting with DiRT: Showdown and F1 2012.
"Distribution remains an important part of our business and adding Codemasters' slate of titles dovetails nicely into our strategy to deliver consumers a range of quality games," said senior vice president of sales, America Kevin Kebodeaux.
This review will appear in full in our next issue, E240, which is out April 11, alongside an interview with producer Joonas Laakso about how the game came together.
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Namco Bandai’s decision to entrust the licence of its chic arcade title Ridge Racer to FlatOut creator Bugbear showed remarkable confidence. Turns out it bet on the right studio. Joonas Laakso and his team have gripped Ridge Racer by the scruff of the neck and whipped the game into action-racing relevancy.
UK trade association UKIE is holding its inaugaral Scottish office event today in the Hannah Maclure Centre at Abertay University.
The event, which was sold out, will be centered around the funding opportunities available to interactive entertainment businesses.
Speakers will discuss venture capital, angel investment, prototype and crowd-funding opportunities. The recently announced UK tax breaks will also feature.
“The Scottish video games industry is highly skilled and leads the way in producing innovative digital content," UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist said.
Sony has taken PSP game Everybody's Tennis down from the PSN store following reports that the Vita-compatible release allows pirates access to the console through an exploit.
MotorStorm Arctic Edge was also recently removed from the store, prompting speculation that it was for the same reasons.
PlayStation hackers have claimed that both titles allow a software trick to be used that gives access to the handheld's core functionality.
Reports suggest that the forthcoming Epic Mickey game for 3DS, Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, will be a sequel to the Megadrive Sega classic, Castle Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.
According to a preview in Nintendo Power the game, developed by DreamRift, is a side-scrolling platformer that uses the stylus to paint objects into existence. Each level is based on a Disney film, including Sleeping Beauty and Tangled.
Angry Birds developer Rovio Entertainment has acquired Futuremark Games Studio.
Rovio has added the game development division of the Finnish benchmark software creator so that it can make more games, while also allowing Futuremark to concentrate on its benchmarking business.
“They are an incredibly talented and experienced team, and we are thrilled to have them on board,” Rovio chief executive Mikael Hed said.
Syndicate and The Chronicles Of Riddick developer Starbreeze has revealed that its next game will be free-to-play.
Only the title of the project, Cold Mercury, is known at this time, but Starbreeze CEO Mikael Nermark moved to assure players that the studio would not "leave the AAA segment".
“We are discussing with several leading game publisher on publisher financed games, but we will broaden our product portfolio of games in the new business models and segments that have arisen in the games industry," he continued.
Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has resigned from the Call Of Duty developer.
"Today, I resign from my position as Creative Strategist of Call of Duty, as a lead of Infinity Ward, and as an employee of Activision," he announced via Twitter earlier today.
No details as to why he made the decision were offered, or where he intends to go next, but a subsequent reply to one of his followers suggests that he wants to work on smaller projects:
Digital distribution service Good Old Games (GOG) will begin offering newer titles alongside its over 400 classic PC titles from today, and has signed a number of indie developers as partners.
The DRM-free site's drive to become "bigger, fresher and newer" includes a site redesign alongside the launch of Trine and The whispered World, and preorders for first-person dungeon crawler Legend Of Grimock, on the service.
Administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers has confirmed the closure of 100s of Game Group's underperforming stores in a move that will see 1,000s of jobs lost.
277 of the 609 Game and Gamestation stores in the UK and Ireland have been shut, and PwC says 2,104 employees will be made redundant this week.
Phantasy Star Online 2 will be free-to-play and is heading to smartphones, Sega has revealed.
Confirmed earlier this month for Vita, the RPG will include cross-platform play between Sony's handheld and the PC version, as well microtransactions.
The smartphone versions will be stripped down, but still able to share data with the PC and Vita releases, and are scheduled for release this Christmas.
CCP Games has launched an internal review following allegations that a potentially "suicidal" player was publicly mocked during Eve Fanfest over the weekend.
The player was reportedly shown in a video of Eve Online in-game communication during a panel discussion moderated by CCP staff and including members of the game's Council of Stellar Management. The player in question reportedly showed "obvious" signs of severe depression.
It’s been a month since Sony released Vita in the UK, when I documented my thoughts on its somewhat unhappy unboxing experience. It’s been interesting finding where Vita fits into my on-the-go gaming life - and what’s been most noticeable is that, as far as the mobile context is concerned, it hasn’t, really.
Angry Birds Space has reached ten million downloads just three days after its release.
Rovio's sequel to Angry Birds (which itself has reached 700 million downloads across various platforms) is available on iOS and Android devices, Mac and Windows, while a Windows Phone version is in-development.
Look out for our review of the game tomorrow.
Minecraft has reached 25 million registered users today, following the registration of over 65,000 players in the past 24 hours.
Of those 25 million, 5.3 million (21 percent) have bought the game - just over 9000 of those in that same 24 hour period.
You can read our feature on just what a day in the life of Mojang is like here.