Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Is Gameloft Reviving Ludigames?

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

There are some interesting stories at the moment that surround the French mobile game developer Gameloft. It seems the latest bits we found on the company reveal the comeback of Ludigames, their old D2C brand.

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Xendex Opens FR Office

December 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Xendex has opened a new office for sales representation in France. Micha

Glu Starts Answering our Questions?

December 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Remember the community interview we talked about before? According to our contact at Glu, Greg is still busy to fill in all the answers. Yet via Moconews, we found out that he is already answering several of them indirectly.

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Midway Sold for $ 100K

December 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Midway never really lifted off in the mobile games market, they do have some history in which they licensed several brands to established mobile publishers.

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Kiloo’s Second Investment Round, Company Splits

December 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After successfully raising its first round of investment in February '08, Kiloo just completed a second round to fund Kiloo Media, a mobile media company at mobile projects other than games.

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MED Limited’s Late Payments (the Soap Continues)

November 27th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Not long after Mobile Entertainment Distribution Limited (MED Ltd.) bought the assets of Telcogames off Menzies, we already noticed that the company was behind in paying their debts. Now, months later it's happening all over again.

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And so Ends Vivendi Games Mobile

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today, we received a copy of an e-mail from Vivendi Games Mobile which went to it's European operators and other sales channels. In the e-mail, the company announces to stop the cooperation.

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National Geographic Starts iPhone Development

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We have seen a lot of new studios that started developing mobile games for the App Store. The most recent studio to join the ever growing group is good old National Geographic.

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The Mighty Troglodytes Insolvent?

November 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Since Vivendi Games Mobile has decided to stop publishing directly in the mobile games market, their outsourcing stopped as well. One of their primary outsourcing studios was The Mighty Troglodytes.

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Glu Reacts to the Reviews Story

November 13th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Tuesday evening, Glu's senior director, global public relations, Nicole Kennedy, gave me a call on my way back from work to discuss our story on one of Glu's territory managers trying to influence reviews on Glu's mobile games.