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Google Updates Web Version of Android Market

laurensalad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:05:35 +0000

Google has updated the web version of the Android Market with new advanced abilities to filter reviews. Once signed into your account, users can now filter reviews by device models. For developers, this is a huge move toward better understanding whether titles runs smoothly and behave similarly across all devices. Additional filter options also include [...]

Apple’s Mac Store Hits 100 Million Downloads

laurensalad — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:31:41 +0000

Apple revealed on Monday that they have achieved 100 million downloads on the Mac App Store in less than one year of operation. “In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice [...]

GameSalad & Popular Mechanics Present Be the Spark

laurensalad — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:12:32 +0000

Created in collaboration with GameSalad’s own Game Team One, Popular Mechanics has just released “Be The Spark”. Be the Spark, is a simple mechanics game that challenges the player to keep an engine running by triggering the spark plug at the right moment during the four-stroke cycle. The free app is available for download on [...]

GameSalad Users in the News: Justin Towell

laurensalad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:36:30 +0000

Squeak’s Dreams is an iPhone game coming to the US and UK App Store on December 12, 2011. It’s the first game from three-times videogame Guinness World Record-holder and gaming journalist Justin Towell, who woke up on New Year’s Day this year with the sudden thought: “I’m going to make an iPhone game”. Not knowing [...]

Games Are Hottest Category in the Android Market

laurensalad — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:09:18 +0000

Google reports that the Android market has seen Game downloads reach 2.56 billion out of the 10 billion total downloads within the past 38 months. The Game specific category is the top category at 25.6 percent. Games are followed in popularity by Entertainment, Tools, and Communication categorized applications. Within the Games category, Arcade & Action [...]