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OnLive on iPad

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

OnLive, the online gaming service in the US, has released a special viewer app for owners of the Apple iPad. The viewer allows players to see how others are performing during their playsessions.

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Ngmoco Does Star Wars

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

For years, one thing was sure when it came to Star Wars branded mobile games; they came from a company called THQ Wireless. That seems to have changed now as Ngmoco released Star Wars Imperial Academy.

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Flurry Raises $15 Million

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Flurry has raised $15 million in a series C funding round to accelerate the development of new monetization services for mobile developers, focusing new development on the iOS and Android communities.

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App Farms Continue to Abuse the App Store?

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to a post on The Next Web, app farms are hiding the App Store yet again. In the US paid business apps chart, malicious apps seem to be pulling in revenues like crazy.

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Rovio Predicting $1M in Monthly Ad Revenues

December 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has given out some statistical data about their Angry Birds games in an interview with TechCrunch. Rovio told the website it expects to make $1 million a month in Android advertising revenues by the end of this year.

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Google Launches Gingerbread and Nexus-S

December 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Yesterday was a big day for Android as Google released Gingerbread (Android OS 2.3) for the Nexus One and also announced their second device, the Nexus S in partnership with Samsung.

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Playstation Phone Caught on Camera – UPDATE

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Over the weekend, a video apeared on YouTube in which the supposed Playstation Phone prototype is shown. The video doesn’t show any details about what gaming will be like or the Android OS but one thing is clear; we will know more on Thursday.

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AMV Acquires K2 Media

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile content publisher AMV (American Mobile Ventures) has announced its acquisition of K2 Media to strengthen its position in the market. K2 owns several mobile content franchises.

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The Astonishing Tribe was sold for 800.000.000 Kr

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A Swedish newspaper reported today that Research in Motion bought The Astonishing Tribe for 800.000.000 Swedish crowns or 87.7 million Euro.

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Ngmoco Brings Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Since the investment from Google, it was clear that Ngmoco would be putting focus on the Android platform. With Pocket God however, the company will also start playing around with Windows Phone 7.

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