Archive for the ‘Other news’ Category

GDC: N-Gage Hits 1 Million

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Nokia’s N-Gage platform is growing fast. Though in October, the platform was still at only 400.000 subscribers, it has now grown all the way to 1 million of them now.

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Id Software Makes Wolfenstein 3D Open Source for iPhone

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Id’s John Carmack has ported the good old, original, Wolfenstein to the iPhone platform. At the same time, the developer has started providing the source code of the game for free on it’s website.

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V-Gate, Streaming 3D Games

March 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

In 2007, we got introduced to Vollee, the first company that started streaming full blown 3D mobile games to handsets all over the world. Now, nearly two years later, V-Gate is starting to do the same.

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Germany to Ban Violent Games?

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 3 Comments »

Following the shooting incident in the German city of Winnenden, Heini Schmitt (Head of the national Pollice) has fired up the discussion to ban violent games from the shelves.

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Fennec Reaches Beta Stage

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Mozilla's mobile browser “Fennec” has reached Beta stage. This means that the new mobile browser is nearly ready for it's first stable release. Time for platform owners to prepare themselves!

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EU Roaming Data Charges Maximized

March 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Vivian Reding has managed to get the EU to approve on maximizing the charges for data roaming. Consumers will now be able to use data throughout the EU and pay no more then

Nokia, Genuitec and Motorola start Pulsar, Others Join

March 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

Most of you are probably still dreaming of an ideal world where there is no porting needed to get your mobile game published on any platform you want. This might become reality if it's up to Pulsar.

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MetroStar Systems Pioneers E-Diplomacy

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

MetroStar Systems, Inc. announced the release of X-Life Games, a mobile game that encourages cultural exchanges between Arabic, Persian, and English speaking cultures in the American culture.

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3D Eyetracking on Mobile, The next step to 3D?

February 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

A company called The Astonishing Tribe (or tat) has launched a video in which they show off eye tracking on a mobile phone. Through this technology, a true sense of 3D can be created.

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MWC: Device Anywhere Signs Zed

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Zed has signed a deal with DeviceAnywhere to improve its global content development. Through this deal, the company hopes to speed up it's testing process in order to lower the testing costs.