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Microsoft Opens Dream.Build.Play 2012 Challenge

March 5th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

In order to get more developers interested in developing new and innovative apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone and XBLA platforms, the company has rebooted the Dream.Build.Play competition it successfully launched back in 2011. Developers will compete for a total of $112.500 in cash prizes.

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Archos Launches €99 ICS Tablet for Kids

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though we have seen a lot of sh*tty budget Android tablets pass our desks over the past 2 years, Archos has now announced a new one… one that’s for kids… and runs on some decent specs.

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DTG: iPad Beats Connected TV for BBC

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Interesting news from the floor of the Digital TV Group summit in London. We found some info as to how competitive TV sets might become to tablets as the BBC wishes for TV vendors to simplify their products.

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MWC: Global Mobile Awards 2012

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The Mobile World Congress is over, so time to look back at this year’s Global Mobile Awards for mobile developers and those close to the fire. Congratulations to all that took one of the awards home.

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Tapjoy Helps Tagplay Hop Onto Android

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Tagplay has an amazing success with their iOS release of Funpark & Friends. To extend the reach of the game, Tagplay teamed up with Tapjoy to get the game out on the Android platform.

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Box.net Kicks Off Massive Android Promo

March 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Dropbox competitor Box.net has launched a massive promo on their Android client. Consumers who register for a box.net account through the Android app, will receive a free 50GB account.

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Exit Games Announces Hosted Network Engine

March 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Exit Games today announced their Photon Cloud, a hosted network engine for the development of realtime multiplayer games for browser, mobile, PC & Mac. Game developers can now add online gaming features with the Photon Cloud software as a service.

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MWC: Tizen Beta launched

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

The Linux-driven project Tizen has just launched the first Beta version of the new open source operating system for smartphones. With the release of the beta, the team also made available the first SDK for developers.

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Atari Launches Pong Developer Competition

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Atari has set up a new development competition toward independent developers. The objective? Create the next Pong on iOS. The winner gets $100.000 and a contract at Atari.

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Jobcuts at HP’s WebOS Division

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

As WebOS is transitioning into an open source operating system, HP has announced it will be letting go of another 270 employees that worked on the operating system. HP will try to place those employees at other parts of the company.