Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Accumulate Brings Try&Buy and more to SE

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has signed up with Accumulate for their Flexion technology. This technology will wrap existing mobile games and offer consumers methods to trial and purchase the game in question.

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Metaflow Implements Mplayit Support

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Metaflow has announced a new deal which introduces support for the Mplayit environment. This allows Metaflow users to access Mplayit's channels as well as demo environments.

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EA Takes over Distribution of Namco Europe

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | No Comments »

Yesterday, we could already tell you that NamcoBandai would sign over European distribution of it's mobile games. Today we can officially announce that EA will be their exclusive partner for Europe, Russia, India, Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

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Namco to Outsource Mobile?

September 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | 2 Comments »

This morning, we got several tips that Namco would be closing it's mobile branch. Due to an NDA I can't reveal all the info in those tips as well as the communications we had with Namco already. Yet, a part of it has been made public by Namco already.

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RealGames Into Publishing

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms, Distribution | No Comments »

To assist mobile game developers in the ever growing pain of porting, RealGames has announced a new initiative called Federation of Studios. It should assist developers in porting to over 1700 devices in about 6 weeks.

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Thumbstar, a year after…

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Distribution | 4 Comments »

Most of you probably remember how TelcoGames went bust, leaving debts all over the market and of course a lot of employees on the streets. One of them, Martin Kitney, has started his own aggregator and has been trading for over a year now.

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SE Details App Store Strategy

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

In an exclusive interview from ME, Tim Green spoke with Christopher David (Head of Developer and partner engagement at SonyEricsson) about what SE's new app store will be offering toward the development community.

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Mobi Chill, the next Mosh?

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

Most of you will probably still remember Nokia's Mosh as the place where consumers uplaoded your games for free. Now, there is another portal that even allows them to earn money with it.

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Airtel Goes Flat Fee on Mobile Games

September 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Airtel, India's biggest operator, will be launching a flat fee mobile gaming service called GamesClub. The GamesClub service will be powered by Nazara and Synapsy.

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Verizon App Store Backed by 1K Developers

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

Being the biggest operator in the US clearly has it's advantages. Since Verizon announced that the company wanted to do an App Store, 1.000 developers and publishers have signed up for it.