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iPhone developer Firemint buys Infinite Interactive, makers of Puzzle Quest

by Mike Schramm (Jan 4th, 2011)

Wow. Color me surprised on this one -- I've been joking around lately about iPhone company acquisitions and buyouts, but here are two companies that never occurred to me. Firemint, creators of the popular Flight Control and Real Racing 2 games on iOS, has outright purchased Infinite Interactive, ...

Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2010)

Game Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many ...

Apple poised to become a mobile gaming force

by Mike Schramm (Nov 6th, 2008)

Welcome to last year, Business Week. Their writer Arik Hesseldahl has a story up about how Apple seems poised to take over the mobile gaming world this holiday. He's been playing with an iPod touch and the games available on the App Store, and he's ready to drink the Kool-aid: what Apple's assembled ...