The Japanese company Bandai Namco has announced its readiness to establish partnerships with developers of mobile games and applications, as well as to acquire them.

The phrase “games are a service” is already perceived as a banality today. But when developing, it often happens that developers forget about it. And they continue to work with the game as an end product. 

The developer of am games for Windows Phone, who has not yet been among the Xbox Live-certified developers, has the courage to pay attention to the OpenXLive social gaming platform. By the way, not so long ago a new version (0.9.9) of its SDK arrived.

Sega has created a new division of Sega Networks, focused on creating games for smartphones and tablets.

The founder of Electronic Arts, 3DO and Digital Chocolate clearly explains why in today’s mobile platform market you can’t do without a publisher, and states that 30% of Apple and Facebook’s deductions are too much.