MADRID, Dec. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Wildbit Studios starts the new year releasing Mind Master Sumo on iTunes App Store today. Mind Master Sumo is an original board game inspired by the classic Japanese tradition of Sumo. (Photo: https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131231/MN39227) In Mind Master Sumo, the players' goal is to push opponent pieces out of the tatami. To accomplish that, they need to gather two or more of their own pieces so they can help each other to get superiority in numbers and push their … [Read more...]

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SphereChess is a frightening new monster. It has the same 64 squares and pieces set up like Chess, but SphereChess pieces and files A-H are arranged concentrically around opposing poles of a sphere. SphereChess ranks 1-8 extend between these poles. SphereChess has no backlines or sidelines. www.spherechess.com (Photo: https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131231/PH39016-a )(Photo: https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131231/PH39016-b ) God-Like Firepower   … [Read more...]

NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Ben Liu, a father who has also worked as a teacher for 20 years, has just launched a fundraiser on Indiegogo to try to raise money to market his innovative and educational West Journey Spell Force voice language game. The game, which Liu says is the first voice language game released on the mobile application market, helps kids to practice their speech and learn language. (Photo: https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131230/MN38882) As someone who has been into gaming for … [Read more...]

BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) ("Perfect World" or the "Company"), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Beijing Huanxiang Zongheng Chinese Literature Website Co., Ltd. ("PW Literature"), the entity that operates Perfect World's Chinese online reading business, to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. ("Baidu"), an entity unrelated to Perfect World, for a total … [Read more...]

LONDON, Dec. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportbuyer.com just published a new market research report: Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming 2013-2017 Forecast This IDC study forecasts the digital PC and Mac gaming market worldwide through 2017 along several dimensions. The industry's main business models -- subscriptions, prepaid downloads and add-ons, and freemium -- are separately sized and assessed. North America is also broken out from a combined rest of the world region, and hardcore market dynamics are distinguished … [Read more...]

CHICAGO, Dec. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VTech® (www.vtechkids.com), a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children, today announced they are offering new Learning App Bundles for the award-winning InnoTab® Learning Tablet range. Available on the Learning Lodge™, VTech's comprehensive app store which includes more than 650 apps teaching key curriculum, the Learning App Bundles feature newly developed, educator-approved content packaged in age-appropriate groups, … [Read more...]

NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ali Jaafar, a creative gamer launched Puzzle Warriorz (download link) on Google play on December 17. Puzzle Warriorz is a fresh Puzzle RPG game that aimed to provide brand new game experience to mobile gamers without charging any fees. Puzzle Warriorz differs from other android game apps by making users as fighters in the game. With an amazing puzzle game system, users will be challenged as fighters with 3 types of puzzles in the game. They are:   Warrior puzzle: Hand–eye … [Read more...]

A call for up-and-coming game makers across Canada to develop a mobile game within 48 hours over the weekend of January 17th and win over $35,000 in cash prizes TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2013 /CNW/ - Once more, award winning mobile games studio XMG is challenging students from coast-to-coast to test their talent and carry on the legacy that is the Great Canadian Appathon (GCA): a crazy, intense and exhaustingly wonderful hackathon to design the next hit mobile game in just 48 hours. From January 17th to January 19th … [Read more...]

SEATTLE, Dec. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- You can't have the actual Hope Diamond, but you can take off on an adventure to save it in Big Fish's "Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Hope Diamond."  In this first collaboration by the Smithsonian on a video game, Big Fish worked with the world's largest museum and research complex to create the 6th installment of its popular Hidden Expedition® series. In conjunction with the National Museum of Natural History, Jeff Post, the Smithsonian's curator of the National Gem and Mineral … [Read more...]

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- JumpStart® is launching School of Dragons® on mobile to pioneer simultaneous, 3D cross-platform multiplayer gameplay. The mobile game, based on the company's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) School of Dragons, provides fans of DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon franchise a way to immerse themselves in the brand they love through seamless online browser and mobile gameplay. School of Dragons mobile is now available in the iTunes® store … [Read more...]