Deadliest Warrior iPhone upgrade!

There's even more reason to play our new tower defense game for Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior for the iPhone and iPod touch - with the launch of the new season of the show, we've unlocked a new Campaign upgrade!

Now you can see how Season 2 warriors stack up against some heavily-armored SWAT foes. At just $0.99, the content upgrade lets you throwdown some major firepower: Somali Pirates, Drug Cartel, and the KGB are now at your disposal. Not only can you choose a Hero from the 3 new characters, but you can use any Hero character in the game to create an all-star defense team from Seasons 1 and 2.

Buy the full game on iTunes, or test ride the Lite build for free!

Microsoft is getting destroyed in smartphone race

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Here's February's data compared to the three month period before:

* RIM is at 42.1% for December to February period, compared to 40.8% for the September to November period.

* Apple is at 25.4%, compared to 25.5%.

* Microsoft is at 15.1% compared to 19.1%.

* Android is at 9%, compared to 3.8%.

* Palm is at 5.4% compared to 7.2%.

Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer Lite is free on the iPhone!

Spike's Deadliest Warrior has finally fought its way onto your iPhone and iTouch! Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer has improved upon the best in tower defense gaming. With all your favorite warriors to choose from, Defend & Conquer utilizes the actual battle data from Spike's hit series and now it's up to YOU to decide which warriors can defeat a charging enemy.
A new feature to Tower Defense play is the mobile "Hero" unit for each warrior class. Tap anywhere on the screen to make the hero move there. The hero doubles regular warrior attacks when standing next to them and features a rechargeable "super attack" to fight back the onslaught of foes - just when you need it the most!
The LITE version features the Mongol Campaign. To play the Huns and Centurion campaigns purchase the Full version. Stay tuned for all new Season 2 characters in a MODERN WARFARE campaign – only available in the Full version.


What's New in Version 1.2

We are pleased to announce the following updates:

- iPhone 3G crashing bug fixed

Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer is on Addicting Games now!

Holy Moly! Go play Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer on Addicting Games! What could be better? Slaughter the attackers and dominate your opponents!

Android almost equal to iPhone in mobile web traffic in US

Looking at relative smartphone platform traffic in the US, the iPhone has dropped several points from its 55 percent last fall, but still holds nearly half the share. Android in particular has seen huge growth, nearly catching up with the iPhone's share over the last several months as a number of Android-based devices have been released on the market. The Motorola Droid has been especially helpful in this drive, along with a number of HTC devices. RIM has slowly declined, while webOS and Windows Mobile continue to stagnate at the bottom.

Android Handsets Starting to Take Serious Hold

If you haven't checked up on how Android is faring vis-à-vis the mobile OS wars, it's creeping up faster than Seth Wescott at a snowboard cross race. Admob's latest statistics (http://metrics.admob.com/2010/01/december-2009-mobile-metrics-report/) have Android handsets generating 27% of smartphone network requests in North America. Thats up from only 2% the previous December. AND, that's right on the heels of the much-anticipated Android 2.0 OS upgrade. We'd say that this OS is finally coming into its own.

As has been posited by others, Android is the OS of choice among serious geeks. iPhones? Not so much. While you may have trouble swinging an XBOX controller at marketing conventions without hitting one, hardcore geeks eschew the closed platform and limited application span. But then, aren't all these Android phones running on closed systems like T-Mobile and Verizon? I think we'll see significant increases in Android presence now that the Nexus One is out (only problem there is the price, but that's another topic for another post for another day...) Of course, the Nexus One won't run on AT&T's 3G network (not compatible with that frequency) but then, AT&T's 3G network is so anemic, it probably couldn't take another bandwidth-hungry smartphone anyway, so iPhone users can call that one a blessing in disguise.

But what will the power of the OS be once it starts penetrating other devices? BMW has discussed using Android as the basis of their infotainment systems, and we know we can't wait for a washer-dryer set powered by Android. Although we are unabashed fans (and users) of the iPhone, we'd rather have an Android-based home security system than an iPhone OS-based one. If only the Google gang could figure out how to harness their marketing department as well as Apple harnesses theirs...

As console games slide, online games increase 22 percent compared to a year ago | VentureBeat

Check out this awesome chart which won't post here correctly.

OK- These stats may be six months old but we've had a lot of reading to catch up on and they're news to us now! Hopefully they're of interest to you as well. Console games on the whole saw a huge slide while online accelerated. Is this because the quality of the games online became better or because the social aspects were more compelling? Or were people too poor to shell out 60 dollars for a game that statistically gets played an average of two hours. We think this is another argument for the growing prevalence of connected entertainment.

Yahoo Games ranked No. 1 in the category with 19.4 million visitors (up 6 percent from a year ago), or roughly 22 percent of the online game market in May. It was followed by EA online with 18 million visitors, up 34 percent from a year ago, Nickelodeon Casual Games with 14.8 million visitors, and WildTangent Network with 13.8 milli0n visitors, up 16 percent

What's Your IQ?

The new season of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin premiered this week, and so did our companion brain teaser Game Too! Play through 4 mind-bending challenges and get your Demetri Martin IQ. Think you know your palindromes? How fast are you mouse-clicking skills? Take the challenge. We dare you.