Greg Flakus of voanews.com writes:
Millions of people are addicted to playing games on mobile devices, with rivals and teammates spread around the world. A company in Austin, Texas has developed such a game, known as a mobile multiplayer online game, for the Apple iPhone and iPad, basing it on a pen-and-paper game that was popular in the 1970s called Traveller.
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Research from comScore into mobile gaming behaviour across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom has shown that 42% of smartphone users across these ‘EU5’ countries claim to have played a game on their device in February 2012.
That’s 46.4 million people; a 55% increase over the past year.
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Microsoft Corp. has announced quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion (£10.8 billion) for the period that ended 31st March 2012, which is a 6% increase year-on-year.
Operating income was $6.37 billion, up 12% from the same quarter in 2011. Net income was down slightly to $5.11 billion.
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Telefónica Digital has announced a new partnership with EA Mobile that’ll enable the network operator to create game-themed promotions.
O2 UK is launching the first deal, offering customers three months of free access to all EA Mobile games following their first download.
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A new report from Juniper Research says spending on tablet games will account for around a third of all mobile game revenue by 2016.
It expects the amount of money spent by consumers on games for tablets to reach $3.1 billion by 2014, up from $491 million in 2011.
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