Seven generations of iPod nano evolution have culminated in something pretty special. The latest iteration of Apple's mini music player is its thinnest, has the biggest screen ever (for a Nano), and tosses in Bluetooth to boot. Is it great? Yes. Is it enough to make you care about MP3 players again? Not really.
Mobile gaming dominates most people's video game time but the industry still hasn't figured out how to most effectively monetize mobile.
No one working in the video game industry will claim that video game consoles are the future of the industry. That era is over. Where cloud gaming, mobile, and all PC gaming from social to browser will ultimately intersect with console games in the medium’s near future is unknown but today, we know this: mobile gaming is huge and growing. Major publishers like Electronic Arts aren’t making the biggest bank from it yet—mobile accounted for $284 million of EA’s total $4.14 billion in revenue—but mobile is growing swiftly.
The average gamer played Skyrim for 23 hours in its first week on store shelves and averaged three hours of playtime per sitting, making it the most-played game this year, according to data complied by gaming network Raptr. The game was also the most-played role-playing game this year, beating out Dragon Age 2 with six times more playtime.
World of Warcraft could face its toughest test when Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in December.
More than a million players could trade Azeroth for the Galactic Republic, according to a recent survey of World of Warcraft subscribers.
Switch to free-to-play model prompts massive surge of new players for DC Universe Online.
Apparently, when you remove the price tag from a service and make it free, people are more likely to try it out. Yes, we know that sounds like crazy talk, but that seems to be the case for DC Universe Online, and we’re as surprised as you.
