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-Ben Cousins, in USA Today.

-Clive Downie, CEO of ngmoco in the Financial Times article "Console Games Drowning by Numbers."

"In the same way that I've stopped using laptops at home now that I've got one of these" -- Cousins says, holding the iPad he's using to demo The Drowning -- "but I never would have dreamt of that if you had postulated it to me five years ago, when I talk to core gamers... I think there's an opportunity for us to do that." 

"The biggest problem," says Cousins in an interview with Polygon, "is that people have been trying to make the console control scheme work on mobile."

Doug Scott, VP Marketing on the iPad Mini.

“Whenever Apple announces a new form factor for a device, that’s good for the industry as a whole,” says Doug Scott, vice president of marketing at ngmoco. “There’s going to be more attention on our games.”

"Japanese gaming giant DeNA is enjoying the hard-earned success of its Mobage social gaming platform in the US, as two of its titles, Rage of Bahamut and Blood Brothers sit atop the list of Google Play’s top grossing apps, while a third, Marvel: War of Heroes, has cracked the top ten."

via VentureBeat

"Blood Brothers is joined by two other Mobage titles, Rage of Bahamut and Marvel: War of Heroes, in the top 10 on Google Play’s U.S. top grossing apps chart."

"One of the latest hits from DeNA, a Japanese mobile-gaming company, is called “Blood Brothers”. The hero is a vampire who unites his allies against his enemies in a pact of blood. But that’s not the scary part..."

via gamesindustry international

"I would love us to be one of the icebreaking teams that creates something that's successful in its own right, but also leads the way and creates the whole market as well," [Ben Cousins] said.

"Sure there might be the odd Halloween party and there’s always sitting around waiting for trick-or-treaters. But what’s a person to do with their downtime? Why not take to the App Store and sample a bunch of new Halloween content that’s just been added to a number of DeNA titles?"

"Greetings ghoulish gamers! Mobage has just announced all of the seasonal content currently available for its mobile games. Got one of these on your iPhone, iPad or Android device? Grab the updated content while it's still available."

GamesIndustry International sat down with Neil Young, CEO of ngmoco, at GDC for an indepth discussion of their business, the competition, cross-cultural games, and the next big disruption.

via TechPaparazzi