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Activision Acquisition Approved

July 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With over 90% of the votes, Activision shareholders approved the
acquisition of the company by Vivendi Games to jointly form Activision
Blizzard.

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3rd Person Closes Down

July 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems to be the season for it, Danish mobile game developer 3rd
Person has closed it’s doors as it was not able to raise the funding
needed to continue developing it’s Misslead series.

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Former EA Guy Starts ng:moco

June 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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EA’s Neil Young, head of the Electronic Arts Los Angeles Studio, has
recently left the company. His new mission? To start a new mobile game
development studio for the iPhone.

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Eidos Mobile Shutting Down!?

June 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 3 Comments »

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Strong industry romours from several sources say lots of Eidos Mobile staf will start looking for a job starting tomorrow. Is Eidos giving up on mobile!?

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Xendex Raises 2.3 Million Funding

June 25th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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Mobile game developer Xendex has raised

PopCap Goes Asia, Opens Office

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

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PopCap Games has chosen to extend it’s position in the Asia/Pacific
(mobile) casual gaming market by opening up a brand new office in
Shanghai, lead by James Gwertzman.

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Nokia to Acquire Symbian

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

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Nokia has announced a cash payment in order to get hold of all shares
of Symbian Limited the company doesn’t own yet (52%) and reserved 264
Million Euro.

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In-Fusio Receives Funding

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

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French developer and publisher In-Fusio has received funding from Occam
Capital in order to keep on operating its mobile gaming business.

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BLStream and Gamelion Merge

June 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

A new merger in the world of mobile game development today as BLStream
and Gamelion announce their merger, creating a 300 heads strong
development house.

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Telcogames Letter to Creditors

June 11th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 7 Comments »

Though MED might bring the impression that they took over most of Telcogames, it looks like Menzies is still not finished. We managed to get hold of a big document outlining what is going on.