Some devs like to keep it simple: no in-app purchases or microtransactions—hell, no app at all; no forcing you to rope your friends to play. Just, you know: player gives dev money, player gets entire game. That game is probably priced at more than 99 cents to boot. » 6/20/13 4:30pm 6/20/13 4:30pm

Mobile games are great; they allow people to game pretty much everywhere. From gaming during the daily commute to gaming while waiting for the bus, mobile games can enrich people's daily lives. Sadly, for one man in China, the joys of playing mobile games had lead to an undeserved beating. » 5/22/13 6:00am 5/22/13 6:00am

Let me break it down for you: 12 years of Catholic school. Powder-blue communion suit. Did the Stations of the Cross ON MY KNEES for multiple years. Childhood best friend was an altar boy. (He's fine. Nothing ever happened. Thanks for asking.) I say all this to establish that I know all about nuns. Nuns have paddled… » 11/02/12 8:30am 11/02/12 8:30am

Word games? I love ‘em. Give me a jumble of letters and a grid and I'll go to town. One great thing about the advent of smartphones is how they've ushered in a major re-think of the word game DNA. So, last week, when a neighbor mentioned that a new iOS word game was spreading like wildfire through his workplace, I was… » 10/31/12 1:16pm 10/31/12 1:16pm

You spent hours playing Pitfall on an Intellivision or an Atari 2600 back in the day, imprinting your impressionable brain with a fear of crocodiles that not even delicious Choco-diles snacks can't conquer. Also you love gold. A lot. » 7/09/12 11:45am 7/09/12 11:45am

Early this past March in China's Gushi County » 6/15/12 7:30am 6/15/12 7:30am, 14 year-old Xiao Qiang told seven year-old Xiao Hua she could play games on his mobile phone. He lured her into a room in an abandoned shoe factory. There, he proceeded to sexually assault her.

Been almost a year to the day since we first heard BioShock was making the jump to mobile phones. And we haven't heard squat from it since. So let's catch up with some footage. » 2/17/09 4:30am 2/17/09 4:30am

iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. » 2/02/09 3:00pm 2/02/09 3:00pm

Sturgeon's Law » 10/21/08 3:20pm 10/21/08 3:20pm states that "Ninety percent of everything is crap". I don't think I am being too controversial by suggesting that if Theodore Sturgeon had ever encountered mobile phone games he would have revised upwards. There are decent games out there, but there is a lot of dross - derivative, badly designed and poorly …