Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Taito Signs GameJam 2008 Winner Waterways

June 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Taito (owned by Square Enix Holdings) has signed a deal with Dutch studio Rough Cookie to bring their GameJam 2008 award winning mobile game concept Waterways to the iPhone.

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Trixcell Brings More Magic to the Phone

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Before reading this article, we took a look at a YouTube video that was sent with the press release. The video is of a mobile game/app called Spoon! and shows something we haven't seen on mobile yet; Magic!

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HandyGames to Stay SE Aggregator

June 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

Following the news earlier today, we contacted some people in the industry to see what impact the SonyEricsson / GetJar deal will be to current aggregators GlobalFun and HandyGames.

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JavaOne: SE and GetJar Team up on App Store

June 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It seems like SonyEricsson is about to unleash more competition on their decks as they announced a cooperation with GetJar for their own (GetJar Managed) App Store.

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Player X to Distribute Apps Toward Orange UK

June 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Good news for application developers. Orange UK and Player X have started to distribute mobile (lifestyle) applications towards the operator's customer base.

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FoneStarz Launches App Store with Vodafone Egypt

June 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Fonestarz has signed a deal with Vodafone Egypt to manage and deliver a full blown app store like environment on the Vodafone Live! portal.

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Nokia Ovi Launched

May 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 5 Comments »

Nokia opened the doors to their Ovi Store. 50 Million consumers worldwide will now be able to pick up mobile games and applications directly from the service.

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O2 Pushes Litmus Toward Consumers

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

O2 UK (Telefonica) has started a new PR initiative to push their App Store called Litmus toward consumers. The company is sending out thousands of e-mails.

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Vodafone to Release an App Store Too

May 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It seems Vodafone is also jumping the bandwagon as they announce their own App Store. The news was to be expected as competitor O2 (Telefonica) has been making a lot of noise around their Litmus App Store and T-Mobile and AT&T also have their App Stores in place.

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Warner Bros to Distribute for Cobra Mobile

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Chillingo was one of the first companies we noticed that started to distribute mobile games to the App Store. While the App Store is available directly to all operators, it seems to be a very interesting business model as Warner Bros is jumping into that market as well with Cobra Mobile.