Archive for the ‘Brand Licensing’ Category

Gameloft Snaps up Capcom Brands

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Following their licensing deal with SEGA, Gameloft has announced yet another distribution deal with a big Japanese giant. This time, the publisher will bring titles from Capcom to the European market.

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Lady Gaga Sponsors iOKi Karaoke App

November 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

Lady Gaga (or Stefani Germanotta) has taken a rather unusual step. Instead of getting her ‘brand’ licensed, she actually decided to sponsor GridMob with their iOKi Karaoke series.

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Connect2Media Licenses Lumines

November 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

When it comes to stacking blocks, Tetris is by far the most popular casual game available today. Though a real second best has never been defined, Lumines might qualify for those honors and C2M will take that game mobile.

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Zed Licenses Planet 51

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Zed's sister company Ilion is coming with a new animated movie and so, Zed will bring us a load of content. Apart from numerous ringtones and wallpapers, the company will also be releasing three mobile games.

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HandyGames and AMA Release First Ubisoft Title, Sign of More to Come?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »

About a month ago, MGB reported that the love between Gameloft and Ubisoft was pretty much over and that Ubisoft was open to discussion when it comes to licensing their IP out to others.

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Connect 2 Media Bags PES License

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Today we found out Connect 2 Media has increased it cooperation with Konami even further as the company has started offering Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer title to operators and other sales channels.

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Rumours: UBI & Gameloft, the Love is Gone!?

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

The signs where hanging in the air and many where saying it at both the GC and GamesCom. With the announcement of UBI doing Assasins Creed on the iPhone we can openly say the love between the both is gone.

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Turner Signs Brands to GlobalFun and Kiloo

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Turner Broadcasting has signed a three year EMEA distribution deal with GlobalFun to bring their brands to the J2me markets. At the same time, Kiloo scoops Ben10 for non-gaming content.

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Gameloft Signs Earthworm Jim

August 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Gameloft is bringing another classic back to mobile. The company signed a deal for the famous Earthworm Jim brand from Interplay for all downloadable platforms they work on.

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Artificial Life’s Formula 1 Business

August 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

Artificial Life has just closed a new two-year exclusive licensing deal with Red Bull Racing (Red Bull's Formula 1 racing team) and is finishing off their BMW Sauber Formula 1 game.