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Gameloft announces 27% boost in earnings in 2012, 56% of sales from back catalog

by Mike Schramm (Jan 30th, 2013)

Developer Gameloft has announced its earnings for the last quarter, and they're up. The company even beat out its own guidance, ending 2012 with a 27 percent boost in earnings on the year in total, up to $275 million. I would have thought much of that was from the major Christmas sales that we ...

Walmart closing down its digital music store

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2011)

Walmart is shuttering its digital music store on August 29, the company announced this week. The store was introduced to the public on March 23, 2004, and made a valiant effort at competing with iTunes, often offering up songs for even cheaper than Jobs and Apple were able to make them on ...

Xmarks calls it quits

by Mike Schramm (Sep 28th, 2010)

I've been a big fan of Xmarks for a while now -- I work on a few Macs and PCs regularly, and while MobileMe is nice, I've always appreciated Xmarks' ease of use (after a one-time setup, it basically worked automatically) and compatibility across whatever browsers I happened to use. That's why I was ...

iQuarterback 1.1 from former Ensemble Studios devs

by Mike Schramm (Apr 14th, 2009)

The folks at FuzzyCube Software dropped us a note that their first game, iQuarterback, is in the App Store now, and it looks all right -- rather than actually quarterback a game, you mostly just try to hit passing targets. And while the game is pretty barebones right now (it's only 99 cents, and ...