Not all mobile games land in every territory across the world simultaneously. Some developers like to play it safe and cautiously roll their product out in a select few countries to use them as testbeds, before flicking that switch to …
Last year, while Disney was paying $700 mm+ for Playdom, Electronic Arts was buying PopCap Games for $1 billion, and Zynga was going to be valued at over $20 billion in an IPO, Bobby Kotick was being ridiculed as as a dinosaur in the games industry for missing the social games boat. Even, as it so happened, by this guy!
It was just this past Friday that we reported on Rovio's tantalizing teaser for an upcoming announcement in New York City. An announcement happening seven hours from now, involving Toys'R'Us and Star Wars. Thanks to the crack investigative journalism of the Gamezebo news team, and a stolen time machine, we've managed to uncover the details of Angry Birds' next merchandising move. Wait, what? This just in: I'm getting word it wasn't a time machine that helped us...it was the internet.
Last week, fear spread around the web - and the world - about something many of us hold dear to our hearts. The environment? The election? Who are you kidding!? I'm talking about bacon. Specifically, the impending 2013 shortage of it due to destroyed corn and soybean crops. I know. Even bringing it up again is a travesty.
You did it. Whether by lining up since well before midnight, bravely battling your way through crowds of fellow tech. enthusiasts, or waiting lazily at home for the delivery truck, you did it. You snagged an iPhone 5 on launch day. You already know this thing's going to be a boon to your gaming life. But my if that tall, shiny new screen isn't looking a little... empty.
Yesterday, Gamezebo's editor-in-chief Jim Squires gave you the run down on Apple's long-awaited iPhone, and why you as a gamer should be excited to have it in your pocket. Curiously absent from the company's San Francisco press conference however was the news developers wanted to hear. As is the case with X-Files, though, I was a firm believer that the truth was out there. So like the fearless Mulder of apps, I went out searching for it.