Infinity Blade X to Come to Mobage — Japanese company, DeNA has announced that the popular Infinity Blade iOS title will becoming to its Mobage platform as its first title run by the Unreal Engine. The game will be dubbed “Infinity Blade X” and will be created in collaboration with Epic Games and ChAIR Entertainment. As part of Mobage, the game will a free-to-play social title, mixed with the original game’s combat mechanics, and monetize through virtual goods. It is expected to be released this fall.

Fruit Ninja Coming to Facebook — Mobile developer Halfbrick is expanding its popular Fruit Ninja iOS game to the Facebook social network. The company tweeted that” Fruit Ninja Frenzy” would be coming to the platform “soon,” and that users can earn a chance at testing the Alpha stages by filling out a short survey. Halfbrick also previously announced the game’s coming to Xbox Kinect.

Magic: The Gathering Creator Works On Coming iOS Game, Kard Combat — Hothead Games has recently announced its next iOS title, Kard Combat.The strategic collectible card game contains several game modes, including multiplayer, but is also being developed with Richard Garfield, creator of the original Magic: The Gathering collectiblecard game. A preview of the game can be found here.

Loopt Adds U-Deals — Loopt has added a new service called U-Deals that adds a new point of view to location-based deals. Through U-Deals, users will be able to request deals of their own, and once enough have been requested, Loopt will contact the merchant and request it.

Outfit7 to Make Film, TV, & Book Brands — Following the example of Rovio Mobile, Outfit7, the iOS developer behind several talking avatar apps has signed a deal with William Morris Entertainment, says VentureBeat. Through WME, the Outfit7 brands, such as Talking Tom Cat, will expand to movies, TV, and books.

Shazam Raises $32 Million — Music tagging software developer, Shazam, has raised massive new $32 million roundof funding. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners. DN Capital also participated. In short, Shazam is an application that allows users to identify a piece of music by holding the smartphone up to a speaker.

Glympse Raises $7.5 Million — In more funding news, Glympse has raised$7.5 million is a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures and Ignition Partners, says TechCrunch. Glympse is a location based app that allows users to share their location with only select friends for only a few hours at a time.

China Marked as 2nd Largest iPhone App Market — According to a report from Distimo, and highlighted by TechCrunch, China has become the second largest application market for iOS behind the United States. What’s more impressive, is that Apple only recently opened an App Store there last Fall. Despite the vast number of downloads, revenue is still below both the U.S. and Europe with most Asian markets downloading free version apps (e.g. ad supported).

Apple Moving Into Television Displays — According to a post from Daily Tech, a former “Apple executive” has noted that Apple is looking to get into the television display business. Though nothing is official, Apple will supposedly team up with an unnamed television supplier to create the branded TV set which is said to be bundled with both Apple TV and iTunes.

Ngmoco Hires Ben Cousins for New Swedish Studio — Yesterday, the former general manager of Electronic Arts, Ben Cousins, was hired by mobile games company, ngmoco, says Gamasutra. Through Cousins, ngmoco will be tasked with establishing a new Swedish studio in Stockholm.

A Month on Android — In an interesting piece from Making Money With Android, a mobile developer highlights the ups and downs of a game demo uploaded to the Android Market. Pointing out important metrics such as download numbers and revenue figures, the provides interesting insight into what new Android developers could expect.

Yudu Launches Way For Publishers to Avoid Apple’s 30% Cut: How long will this one last? This service lets users download new editions of publications via the web, allowing them to not give up 30 percent of subscription revenue to Apple. Of course, we doubt the user experience will be as seamless as in-app payments, which might lead to a lower conversion rate for publishers.

News Corp.’s The Daily Gains 800,000 Downloads, Loses $10 million: The company’s president Chase Carey said that the company expects to spend $30 million on the iPad app through year-end including $7 million in the second quarter. The company didn’t disclose the conversion rate from free to paid subscriptions.

Microsoft Tries to Spur Interest Among iOS Developers For Windows Phone 7: Trying to come from behind after making a late entrance, Microsoft is giving a guide to iOS developers to help them translate their work from iOS APIs to Windows Phone ones. This still doesn’t make up for the fact that the Windows Phone 7 is still quite small compared to iOS and Android’s footprints at this point. Back-of-the-hand estimates suggest that there might be 1.5 million activated devices at this point.

Android Shipped 33.3 Million Devices in Q4 2010, While iOS Did 16.2 Million: Canalys releases another estimate supporting Android’s momentum, saying that the platform grabbed nearly one-third of all global phone shipments in the last quarter of 2010. That’s up from 8.7 percent share in the same period a year earlier.

Android Market May Overtake The iOS App Store In Terms of Number of Applications in August Android Market is getting more competitive; both it and the iOS app store will reach 425,000 total applications offered in August before Google’s store plows ahead faster. This isn’t really a surprise given that Android has overtaken Apple’s platform in terms of device shipments, making it relatively more attractive to developers. Android Market also doesn’t have a review process, meaning that any developer can automatically put apps of varying quality into the store.

PopCap’s Plants Vs. Zombies Turns 2: PopCap’s hit Plants Vs. Zombies, which spawned a veritable font of zombie-themed games on the iOS platform turns two today. An Android version should be coming soon.

Chillingo Releases Puzzler Spider Jack: EA-owned publisher Chillingo just released a new title, Spider Jack, which is a puzzle game reminiscent of Cut The Rope where the player has to help a spider weave its way around a number of obstacles to find its next meal.