You may recall the couple-hour tenure that Kongregate enjoyed with the original build of their Arcade application, before Google pulled it off the Android Marketplace. The reason behind the removal was that no one application was allowed to function as its own supplemental marketplace, which Kongregate violated by allowing users to download and play over […]
This past Wednesday, Kongregate’s “Kongregate Arcade” application for the Android OS was pulled from the market. Google cited that the multi-game service was in itself an application market, and violated the marketplace rules for the OS. The app can still be downloaded directly through Kongregate, and the company later posted a Twitter message stating that […]
Japanese publisher Konami recently announced its intent to acquire outright the folks and IP of Hudson Soft, reportedly for its knowledge of social and mobile gaming, a field in which the publisher is just now taking major steps into. The developer, perhaps most famous for creating Bomberman, is already partially owned by the publisher – […]
George “Geohot” Hotz, famous for having “jailbroken” the iPhone as well as recently publishing the rootkey of the Playstation 3, recently announced on his website that he intends to go and buy a Windows Mobile 7 device. In response to this message, Brandon Watson, an entrepreneur currently working with Microsoft, twittered that he would give a phone […]