PopCap Games has signed an agreement to pre-load a number of its games on Sony Ericsson Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro smartphones, marking the 'official' arrival of PopCap games on Android devices in Europe.
The deal will roll out later this summer, with the full version of Chuzzle being pre-installed along with unlimited trial versions of other games, such as Peggle and Plants vs Zombies.
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Electronic Arts (EA) has announced an agreement to acquire PopCap Games, a US-based company that produces games for mobile phones, tablets, PCs and social network sites.
PopCap has produced a number of popular titles including Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Zuma.
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Research from Nielsen says games are (still) the most popular app category, with 64% of app downloaders having used them in the last month. Next were weather apps, followed by social networking.
The survey contacted people in the USA who'd downloaded an app in the previous 30 days.
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A new report from IHS Screen Digest says the market for gambling on mobile phones in the United Kingdom more than doubled in 2010.
Net revenue from mobile gambling hit £41 million last year, up from £19 million in 2009.
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Mobile social gaming company Scoreloop has been acquired by Research In Motion.
Scoreloop, which offers a free software development kit that helps game developers, will continue its cross-platform approach but promises an 'unparalleled' approach to BlackBerry devices.
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