Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Cut The Rope Passes 3 Million Sales

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems developer Zeptolab managed to create one of the world’s most beloved little green monsters as Cut The Rope has managed to sell 3 million copies.

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Pixalon Signs GlobalFun Games Over to HandyGames and C2M

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

In regards to the financial problems and bankruptcy filing of GlobalFun, Pixalon Studios signed new distribution agreements with HandyGames and Connect2Media in regards to GISH, UFO: Afterlight and Crazy Cats.

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MU: What can Vodafone Developer do for You

November 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Without doubt, this Mobile Unconference is bigger than any before. We have about 110 people showing up and 22 sessions along 4 different rooms (during the day alone). We start off with Vodafone’s track.

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Unity Steps Into Mobile Publishing

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

With a new business unit called Union, Unity Technologies will be entering the publishing arena for digital downloads to mobile phones, TV’s and other connected devices.

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Secret Exit Moves Away from Chillingo

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

This morning, Secret Exit informed players of the original Zen Bound game that the company has moved Zen Bound away from iPhone publisher Chillingo and started self-publishing the title and the successor.

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Selatra Opens Up at Optimus

November 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Selatra announced that Optimus (Portugal) will be launching a new portal in collaboration with Selatra. Selatra is responsible for the content aggregation on platforms like J2me and Android.

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Dutch Social Network Launches MVNO

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

With over 10 million members, Hyves is the biggest social network in The Netherlands, though it is losing market share to Facebook. Hyves itself actually started as a copy of Facebook and is now starting an MVNO to compete with the US giant.

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GetJar Buys Into Mobile Games

October 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

GetJar has formed a new strategy to increase traffic to its already popular app channels. It will now be buying complete mobile games from developers in order to give them away for free on their portal.

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Amazon to Launch an Android App Store

September 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Amazon has been publishing digital content for a while, the company seems willing to expand into additional platforms, starting with publishing apps for the Android platform.

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Verizon Adds Android Support to V Cast

September 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Verizon has announced that the operator will be adding Android support to its own app store. Untill now, only BlackBerry developers could make use of this service.