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Ronaldinho’s Mobile Bubble Bobble Adventures
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Spanish developer LemonQuest has released their games based on the Ronaldinho license. LemonQuest truly shows how to use a license at fullest as they delivered a huge diversity of games. As you can expect, there is a regular football game, but we have also seen conversions of Tetris, Zuma and Bubble Bobble. This remembers me of the adult mobile gaming industry where the same thing often happens.
THQ’s 2007 Release List
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
THQ has released a list of licenses that will be turned into mobile games this year. One of the main licenses will be LEGO Batman. LEGO Batman is the second LEGO franchise acquired by THQ while Danish developer Kiloo still owns the general and Bionicle LEGO licenses.
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Namco Launches Scene It? Movie Edition
February 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Namco has released “Scene It? Movie Edition”. With well over a thousand questions related to movies, this is one of the biggest movie related quiz games around. The game originated from DVD. In the conversion they picked out the top categories from the original.
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3GSM: Brands Aren’t Evil Says EA Mobile
February 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Over at Pocket Gamer, an interview was released with EA Mobile’s Javier Ferreira. As every interview these days (except at our place), it is cut up in two parts. The first one is online now and explains why Console titles work well on mobile.
TimeLapse Mobile Partners with BMG Music Publishig
February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
San Francisco based publisher TimeLapse Mobile has announced a deal with BMG Music Publishing to include information and music from BMG artists in mobile games. The first game to roll out on this deal is the Bodacious 80’s Challenge, a music quiz game for mobile phones.
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3GSM: Glu Shows Upcoming Mobile Games
February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Yesterday at 3GSM, Glu showed their upcoming titles for this year. The star of the show was the Transformers mobile game which they only showcased at a private viewing. Also, Glu showed their Windows Mobile and Symbian line-up for this year. With this line-up, Glu also shows the interest for decent smartphone games are highly wanted by consumers and operators.
Codemasters to Partner with Glu
February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
It has been silent around Glu for some time since they started with their IPO, but today some good news was announced. Glu has inked down a deal to distribute and develop Codemasters Mobile games on their network. This deal comes at a good time now the IPO is entering its final stages and rumors about the expiration of their SEGA licenses go around the industry, making Codemasters one of their most important assets for the future.
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I-Play to launch Jewel Quest 2
February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »
iWin has released yet another casual mobile game over their successful relationship with I-Play. This time Jewel Quest receives an update. With the release of Jewel Quest 2, iWin hopes to improve over the 40 million downloads that Jewel Quest 1 received (over all platforms we estimate, looking at I-Plays stats at CGA last week). The release of Jewel Quest 2 was simultaneous over mobile, web and other platforms.
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Glu Launches Project Gotham Racing Mobile
February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Last Friday, Glu has globally launched the much anticipated Project Gotham Racing Mobile (also known as PGR). The PGR license started out on the Xbox and was sent out by Glu in time to get some nice quotes from review websites. Among them are IGN “One of the most anticipated games of 2007” and Pocket Gamer “The best mobile racer”.
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