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How Mobile-Game Makers Can Survive the App Store Assault This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Saturday, July 11, 2009

The success of app stores may spell doom for entrenched game makers like EA Mobile and Gameloft.

Increasing smartphone usage and the breakthrough of app stores have given birth to a flurry of activity on the mobile-gaming front from both startups like ngmoco and Zynga and major media brands such as Disney, ESPN and MTV Networks. Which makes me wonder how many of the entrenched players are living on borrowed time — and what they can do to stay alive. Apple’s App Store has given mobile gaming a much-needed lift by coupling a [...]

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