YoYo Games clearly has an 'agenda'. The company released it's first two iPhone games in as many weeks (or three if you count the iPad separately) and is in the process of telling the world how to publish games through YoYo. Now the company has expanded, fairly rapidly, with a whole new team line-up now …
Hot Air Bloon – New From Digital Goldfish
It's an iPhone release frenzy this week for the Scottish development companies. Digital Goldfish, the company behind the iPhone version of the smash-hit Bloons, has released the latest game in the franchise: Hot Air Bloon. The AppStore itself is less than forthcoming with background on the game, but we prised a little more detail out …
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Tag Games Invites You To Dinner (And Judges You Harshly)
In a week of frenzied game release activity, Tag Games announced the first title to come through its partnership with Channel 4. Come Dine With Me is the insanely popular cooking programme which challenges four 'normal' members of the public (or occasionally celebrities) to hold dinner parties for each other. The guests then rate their …
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YoYo Games Releases First iPad Game – Maddening
YoYo Games is clearly not a company to rest on its laurels. Following the release of Skydiver Mach II, the company's first iPhone/iPod game at the end of October, YoYo has now released it's first iPad game, Maddening. The App Store is less than forthcoming with the details, but according to the YoYo Games website: …
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Realtimeworlds – postscript
News surfaced on Twitter earlier today that the domain http://www.realtimeworlds.com has now been acquired and staked out by a domain hosting company. So it seems appropriate to link to an epitaph of the company, which was posted on Eurogamer yesterday: "APB has been a fantastic journey, but unfortunately that journey has come to a premature …
Realtime Worlds Administrator Continues To Distress
With nearly 200 employees losing their jobs, serious debt and a live game to sell, the liquidation of Realtime Worlds was never going to be pretty. However, the actions of the company appointed as administrator, Edinburgh-based Begbies Traynor, since the company folded have been widely viewed as having little or no concern for those affected. …
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First Reviews Hit For Cohort’s ‘The Shoot’
Cohort's first title for the PlayStation Move 'The Shoot' was released over the last few days. It's starting to pick up some critical attention. The first review, from Digital Chumps said it "may very well be the first must have game for the Move." The game is an 'on rails' shooter, in which the player …
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YoYo Games Launches First iPhone App – Skydiver Mach II
YoYo Games has announced its first commercially available game for the iPhone. Skydiver Mach II is a brand new title, out now on the Apple App Store. The launch marks YoYo's first steps into the publishing sector. The company is the creator of the hugely successful GameMaker app, which boasts over 1,000,000 users globally who …
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