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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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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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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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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: Qualcomm Announces a Lot

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

This morning our mailbox was stuffed with chipset news from Qualcomm. We highlighted some of the news in this one post.

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MWC: Rovio’s Bad Piggy Bank Ready to Roll

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following a successful trial with Finnish operator Elisa, Rovio and Fortumo’s Bad Piggy Bank direct billing platform is ready to roll our on operators world-wide.

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SEGA, EA and Gameloft in App Store Pricewars

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems Valentines-day is the perfect momentum to start a new war. A price war that is, started by good old Electronic Arts with their “I Love 99¢” promotion.

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Texas Instruments Announces the OMAP 5 CPU

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Texas Instruments has shown off a new mobile CPU called the OMAP 5. One of the key features of the OMAP 5 CPU is that it consumes 60% less energy compared to its predecessors.

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Xperia Play Commercial Leaks Onto the Net

February 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

While leaking the iPhone 4 was huge news in 2010, SonyEricsson seems to aim for a similar status in 2011 with their Xperia Play. Today, we received a tip with the commercial of the device.

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Scoreloop Hits One Million New Users a Week

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Scoreloop announced that it has continued to see rapid uptake of its platform with over one million new players using Scoreloop-enabled social gaming features every week.