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OpenFeint Goes Platform Independent

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Today, OpenFeint announced OpenFeint Connect, a do it yourself solution for those developers that wish to implement OpenFeit functionality on yet unsupported platforms and app stores.

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MWC International Mobile Gaming Award Winners Announced

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The IMGA has just announced the winners of the International Mobile Game Awards. The grand prix went to long time developer FDG Entertainment and many other award have been won by long-time mobile developers as well.

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EA: Free to Play and Online Become Core

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

During the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, EA’s John Riccitiello explained that EA is about to reclaim the leading position in the games industry. Online Distribution and Free to play will be key in the new strategy.

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MWC: Scoreloop Adds Windows Phone 7 Support

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Speaking at the International Mobile Game Awards, Scoreloop CEO Marc Gumpinger invited developers to sign up for the beta of Scoreloop’s Windows Phone 7 SDK.

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Lookout: Android Market Grew 127%

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

US research bureau Lookout has calculated that Android Market grew 127% over the past six months. Apple’s growth in percentage is significantly lower with ‘just’ 44%.

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Google Enables App Subscriptions

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following in the footsteps of Apple, Google has announce One Pass. One Pass is a system that allows content owners to charge subscription based fees for access to their content.

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Apple’s Subscriptions Model Causes Turmoil

February 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems content publishers world wide are seriously pissed at Apple for demanding all content subscription services to run over Apple’s billing servers so the company can take 30% of the revenues.

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Warner Bros Turns Movies into Apps

February 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

What do you do it Apple doesn’t offer subscriptions? You build an app for that (and get booted from the app store). What do you do if Apple doesn’t allow you to launch movies in all regions? You build an app for that.

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MWC: Nvidia Joins the Quad Core Race

February 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following yesterday’s announcements from Qualcomm, Nvidia has also announced it will be shipping quad core mobile CPU’s to vendors world-wide.

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MWC: Arvato to Power PlayNow

February 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Arvato has closed a new deal with SonyEricsson in which the aggregator will power SonyEricsson’s PlayNow app store on several mobile devices from 2011 onward.