EA Goes Shopping, Buys Up Firemint
Firemint is the independent app development studio that has produced some really great hits including Flight Control and Real Racing. Electronic Arts want to increase their ‘powerhouse of creative talent’ and decided to scoop up Firemint for a currently, undisclosed fee. EA also purchased Mobile Post Production quite recently. We have no details of the costs involved to EA for this purchase, at the moment but Firemint has done incredibly well from its early start up days of 1999 when it was founded by Rob Murray. It employs around 60 people at the moment and is based in Melbourne, Australia. Flight Control Real Racing HD
‘ CUT THE ROPE’ Named As First iPhone Game To Win A BAFTA
Leading independent games publisher Chillingo, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), is delighted to confirm that Cut The Rope™ has won a BAFTA in last night’s British Academy’s Game Awards, making it the first iPhone game to ever win the prestigious award. Cut The Rope, published globally by Chillingo and developed by Zeptolab, is a physics-based puzzler for iPhone®, iPod Touch®, and iPad®, and has sold more than six million copies worldwide on the Apple App StoreSM. Last night, the British Academy announced that Cut the Rope came top in the ‘Handheld’ category, having been nominated alongside highly acclaimed games on the Sony PlayStation® Portable (PSP®) and Nintendo…
Introducing The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY
Sony Ericsson today announced the game changing XperiaTM PLAY, the latest phone in its XperiaTM range of Android based smartphones. XperiaTM PLAY delivers the smartphone functionality that the most serious power users could need, teamed with the immersive gaming experience that any gamer would want. In portrait mode, the Android smartphone offers all the benefits that users have come to expect from Sony Ericsson’s existing range of XperiaTM smartphones with best-in-class entertainment experiences, a great 5 megapixel camera, a brilliant 4" multi-touch screen and great social networking features. However, slide out the gaming control and users enter a new world of immersive mobile gaming. The slide out game pad reveals…
App Store Gaming Prices Slashed
Life is hard if you’re an Indie App Developer, you may get lucky or you will just continue with the slog of trying to get your app noticed in the ever increasing App Store – don’t forget our advertising package though, that really helps. Well, with that aside it’s about to become very tough this weekend for Indie’s as Capcom, Sega, Namco Gandai, EA and Gameloft have all reduced their iPhone games drastically in smart sales ploys. Phoenix Wright Phoenix Wright by Capcom is currently available in the US and UK App Stores respecitvely for $0.99/ £0.59, this same game recently sold on the Nintendo DS for $40/£25. Capcom Capcom…
