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IMGA Shortlists Nominees

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

The International Mobile Game Awards jury has shortlisted the nominees for the seventh award show in Barcalona. IMGA received 263 games from thirty countries around the world.

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Exent to Launch Android Based Games on Demand Service

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

Exent has announced it will be launching ‘Play Anywhere’ for Android devices. The service allows gamers to rent their games similar to the commercial model is i-mode games in the 90’s.

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Microsoft Questions ‘App Store’ Trademark

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

After being battled about the ‘Windows’ trademark being too generic, Microsoft is now chasing up Apple for the same thing. Microsoft believes the term ‘App Store’ is too generic.

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Gameloft CEO Answers Charges of Cloning

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Gameloft has done it for many year, and many others have been doing it as well; cloning successful games from consoles to mobile phones. In an interview with IGN, Gameloft CEO Michel Guillemot explains his reasons.

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Lima Sky To Sue All Doodles!?

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Doodle Jump has been highly popular ever since the game launched on the App Store. As a result, we have seen many other ‘Doodle’ (or hand drawn) games launch in the hope that having Doodle in the name will pay off.

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Apple Launches Mac App Store, Hackers Ruin It

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last Friday, Apple launched the new App Store for Mac. What the company didn’t expect though was that the store was hacked only hours after opening resulting in many users freely downloading the apps from their store.

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Rovio Launches Angry Birds Free on App Store

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has launched a new free version of Angry Birds on Apple’s App Store. The title competes directly with the Angry Birds and Angry Birds Lite versions licensed to EA owned publisher Chillingo.

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Panasonic Opens App Market for Viera TV’s

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

During the CES, Panasonic announced their App Market for their line of Viera TV’s. The App Market is an extension to Panasonic’s IPTV platform called Viera Connect.

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Microsoft Developing ARM Branch of Windows 7?

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

If rumors are right, Microsoft is nearly ready with a special version of Windows 7 that is able to run on ARM-based processors. This would improve Windows 7’s scalability toward tablet based devices.

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Namco Banda Moves Development Back to Japan

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Namco Bandai has announced that it will be moving all game development back to Japan. The company is dissatisfied with the results of development studios outside of Japan.