Archive for the ‘Other news’ Category

EatWillGrow Uses Twitter as Leaderboard

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Though most developers refer to Twitter as a way to communicate about games toward the community, Kode80 has actually adopted it as vital part of its EatWillGrow game in the hope to trigger a viral effect.

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Nokia Moves Widsets to Ovi

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Following the closure of Mosh, Nokia is now taking another big step in their portal strategy as it will close down their Widsets service and integrate it into the Ovi Store.

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Habbo Goes Bobba

April 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Sulake, the developer of the successful Habbo Hotel and it’s mobile games, has now announced a new community aimed at mobile phones called Bobba.

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What Happens When we Don’t Write

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

For many mobile game developers it seems hard to accept that MGB is no longer paying attention to new mobile game releases (we regard that as consumer news and MGB is B2B). Last week however, the guys from Appy Entertainment took a shot at MGB in return…

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Maxis Sends Spore Developer back to College

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

In order to stimulate students that wish to take part in the games industry, Maxis is sending the developer of their Spore franchise to colleges around the US.

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Car Jack Streets Diaries

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

TAG Games has always been doing a lot of innovating marketing when it comes to raising attention for their mobile games. In their latest PR outburst, the company has created a set of video's called the Car Jack Streets Developer Diaries.

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Blizzard Launches first App

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The past two years there has been a lot of speculation about why Blizzard was hiring mobile game developers. When Vivendi was acquired, all mobile gaming activities seemed to have been abandoned, but now there suddenly is an app on iTunes

CTIA: Mob4Hire Signs Gamelion Testing Team

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Mob4hire and Gamelion have joined forces in order to expand and further promote their global mobile game testing services. Mob4Hire now reaches 8000+ devices on 250+ networks.

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Pwn2Own 5 Smartphone OS’s Remain Unhacked

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

During the Pwn2Own hackers event, organizer Tippingpoint challenged the hackers to find exploits for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. In the case that an exploit would be found, that hacker would be awarded $10K.

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Glu Signs FusionOne for DRM

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 5 Comments »

Transferring mobile games from one handset to another might become a tandard service soon if it’s up to FusionOne. The company has just signed up Glu as its customer for the technology.