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Market intelligence firm Niko Partners projects that China’s online game market will reach $3.8 billion in 2009. That’s up a full billion over the $2.75 billion China’s online market made last year. As PC penetration expands outside the major cities, Niko estimates the market will hit $8.9 billion by 2013. Now that a big number..really big number.
The costs behind YouTube & FaceBook. Can they continue to pay those operating fees?
According to an internal email seen by CNET, the second round of Microsoft layoffs begin today, part of the 5,000 in job cuts promised by the company in January. Back then, we were hopeful that solid Xbox performance would help spare the gaming division that until we heard about the shuttering of ACES and the dissolution of the Gamerscore Blog team.
Apple has picked up Richard Teversham, a senior Executive from Microsoft’s European Xbox operations, ending his 15 years of service to Redmond. Some press accounts assume that Teversham’s role may lie in beefing up the games scene on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple is trying to work it way in the cutthroat arena of video games, the growing popularity of iPhone and iPod Touch software and some executive poaching from the ranks of Microsoft’s Xbox division might suggest the gadget specialist is looking to extend the gaming reach of its handheld platforms
Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple Inc’s iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday.
A new study had been release today which has found that 57 percent of AT&T Wireless customers play mobile games on there phones. Something tells me that the IPhone has a extremely large part in this, I’m sure the app store has pretty much revolutionize mobile gaming.
The good news is that Blizzard may be planning to do more with the iPhone. But that where it ends the bad news for developers is that they’re apparently trying to squelch useful iPhone apps that are out there right now. They’ve already sent out cease-and-desist orders to two Warcraft-related iPhone apps that were charging money (Armory Browser and the Warcraft Arena Calculator), and now we’ve heard from its creator that Warcraft Characters has gotten the C&D treatment as well.
As easy as using a Flip camera, according to sources. Sources speaking to Business Week have confirmed that a major focus of the new iPhone will be on video recording, and elements of iMovie will be ported to the iPhone OS to allow easy video editing.
BioWare has broken its silence over last month’s obviously unintended reveal of an iPhone / iPod Touch Mass Effect game via an online survey. Community coordinator Chris Priestly has confirmed that Mass Effect: Jacob’s Story is “not a hoax or fake story” via the series’ official forums. Priestly goes on to clear up some details concerning the title.
