PopCap Gets Droidified

PopCap Games has announced a partnership with Amazon which will (finally) bring some of its beloved games to the Amazon Appstore for Android. The fun begins this week (through May 30th) with Chuzzle, the slidey smooth match 3 game filled with furry little round guysthat need to be freed and sent home. The Droid version of Chuzzle features four modes of play including Classic, Zen, Mind Bender, and Speed for hours and hours of Chuzzle action, as well as a trophy room to keep track of achievements, a scrambler to shake things up, and a generator that makes absolutely certain that all levels are unique for eternity. “PopCap is a brand synonymous with great mobile games, and we’re thrilled to offer our customers Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies for Android exclusively through the Amazon Appstore,” stated Aaron Rubenson, category leader at Amazon. . What’s that you say? Plants vs Zombies?

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Top 5 Apps for Valentines

Missing from the Apple App store this Valentines Day are the porno Apps that managed to slip through last year. This time the search for Valentines for iPhone and iPod Touch, and iPad Apps yielded cleaner offerings. You can get your Valentines time wasting done with games like finding hidden objects, puzzles and word seek. There are wall papers and several Freebie games and demos to be found. Here’s a Top Five Valentines Apps List. Number 1 is Valentines Day HD which allows you to customize sweet tarts with your own personalized messages. It is Free and you can use it several ways to make candy hearts using the images that you create with it. Number 2 goes to Valentines Day Hidden Objects, which isn’t free but there are very cute bears that will cheer you up in this hide and seek game. Number 3 goes to a set of

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Amazon Appstore

There is a new place where App developers show off their wears to the smartphone population, and that place is Amazon. Amazon Appstore has open their door officially todevelopers of Applications for smartphones, specifically, application for Android developers. As of today, Android Application developers can get their high quality applications noticed to the Android public through the Amazon Appstore which will be launching in the near future.  Amazon is offering application developers a chance to join in on the movement now, before the launch of the official store. As stated from their developers blog, At Amazon, we start with the customer and work backwards, and we’re always looking for ways to improve the customer experience.  The sheer number of apps available today makes it hard for customers to find high-quality, relevant products – and developers similarly struggle to get their apps noticed.  Amazon’s innovative marketing and merchandising features are designed

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CubeHead Celebrates Apple Launch

The Match 3 puzzle game, CubeHead, has just been featured on the Apple Apps Store “New and Noteworthy” section. Developer Claudio Pinto says, “We are thrilled and excited to learn that our second game for the Apple iPhone™ is also being featured on the App Store, as was our first game WackyLands Green last year. With the help of Indie Developer Consulting we have experienced a very successful launch since the game was released”. CubeHead promises a humorous and colorful Match 3 puzzle game in which players battle King CubeHead and protect their country.

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Buttery, Popping HD Zombies?

It has begun. The gaming floodgates have opened on the iPad and we lead off with one of our all time favorites, PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies. The iPad version of PvZ is packed to the gills with undead pixels (HD 1040×768 resolution), exclusive iPad features, all 3 game modes (Adventure, Quick Play, and Survival), and brand new achievements and mini games. “The iPad is a fantastic platform for gaming, and Plants vs. Zombies HD allows us to show off the great new features and functionality of this exciting device,” said Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development at PopCap. “In this adaptation, we’ve focused on the iPad’s Multi-Touch capabilities and opportunities for new gameplay like the Buttered Popcorn mini-game that will excite both new and current players.” In Buttered Popcorn – a new mini game exclusive to the iPad – players attack zombies by first “buttering” them up – touching

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Space Miner: Space Ore Bust Available from the Apps Store

The epic space adventure, Space Miner: Space Ore Bust is now available for the iPod Touch/ iPhone. This is the flagship app from Venan Entertainment’s Venan Arcade. “Our goal was to build a console quality game experience that was accessible to the widest-possible audience”, said Brandon Curiel, CEO and Creative Director at Venan. “We wanted to raise the bar for original App Store games, and to deliver a deeper, more meaningful game that really pulls the player in. When people buy SPACE MINER, they are getting a game that makes no compromises.” In Space Miner, players defend their family’s asteroid mining field from being taken over by Mega Space Corporation by battling enemies and collecting space ore. The game features 3D graphics, a humorous storyline, hundreds of sound effects, and 23 minutes of original music. Space Miner: Space Ore Bust is available from the Apps Store for $4.99.

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Developers Flocking to iPhone, Shirking the Wii

The 2009/2010 State of Game Development Survey has revealed that the iPhone development platform is becoming increasingly popular, while the Wii is starting to see its decline. That seems to be the exact opposite of what we were seeing a couple of years ago – then, the Wii was selling out from every store shelf and the iPhone didn’t even have an App Store yet. So, what’s to blame for the shift? The slowing demand for the Wii, for one, and also probably the fact that the App Store makes it easy for indie developers to get started and make a profit. What about the rest of the stats? The iPhone/iPod Touch is easily the most popular mobile platform, the Xbox 360 is king of the consoles, and 70% of developers were working on titles for PC/Mac. Do you think the slowdown in Wii title production will lead to more

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Starting the Year Right: Apple’s App Store Reaches 3 Billion Downloads

Apple’s iPhone did a lot more than change the face of mobile phone gaming. It’s changed the way a lot of people look at smartphones forever. In fact, with over 50 million users and over 85,000 apps available, there’s an app for just about everything the hardware can do, and peripherals to make it do the things it can’t right out of the box. With over 125,000 developers using the platform (some of whom can actually say they’ve started coding for iPhone full-time), and more added every day, the iPhone train is headed downhill at full speed with no brakes. In the first few days of 2010, Apple announced that the App Store reached over 3 billion downloads. To put that in perspective, in the past eighteen months, an average of 64 apps were downloaded every second. With an all-but-confirmed tablet on the way and more iPods and iPhones flying

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Zune HD now does gaming

Microsoft has confirmed today that the Zune HD will have gaming abilities on it. “Later this year, Zune plans to release free applications such as Twitter for Zune and Facebook for Zune, in addition to fun 3D games such as Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari Edition, Vans Sk8: Pool Service and Audiosurf Tilt,” a press release read. “Games can be added to Zune HD via Zune Marketplace over the wi-fi connection or when connected to the Zune PC software.” Microsoft is not yet going to open the Zune Marketplace to third parties. In this way it still won’t compete with the iPhone/iPod as a gaming device. “So what we didn’t want to do was build two parallel app store experiences that didn’t work together,” Microsoft’s Zune marketing manager Brian Seitz told The Seattle Times. “Right now our product roadmaps didn’t line up perfectly for us to snap to what they’re doing

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