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Nokia: Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Ngage Nokia’s executive vice president of markets, Anssi Vanjoki, kicked off the second and last day of GDC Mobile with his speech about Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play.

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Play Jedi With SonyEricsson

February 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Smoco Smoco has launched Saber ME, a followup on their range of light saber simulators. Though this is more like an application than a mobile game, we still like to mention this funny product.

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N-Gage D-I-Y With Yamake

February 14th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »

Ngage The Mobile World Congress seems swamped with fresh N-Gage news. This time, the folks over at Nokia have launched a User Generated Mobile Game service called Yamake.

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DeviceAnywhere Pro Launches

January 29th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Mobile Complete has opened up a new service called DeviceAnywhere Pro.
The new service extends the possibility of their widely known
DeviceAnywhere testing suite.

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Intelligent Software Learns Ms. Pac-Man

January 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

A bit off, but this morning I read an interesting bit of news regarding
software agents that learned how to play the classic Ms. Pac-Man.

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Guardian Calls White Rock “Most Promising”

January 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Guardianunlimited The Guardian, a newspaper in the UK that spends a lot of attention to
gaming, put together a list of the 20 most promising games of 2008.

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EA Mobile: iPhone Hurst Mobile Games Market

January 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Eamobile EA Mobile’s vice president Travis Boatman has stated that the iPhone is
hurting the smartphone and to the mobile games / applications market at
CES 2008 in Las Vegas.

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iPhone Hit by First Trojan Virus

January 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Apple F-Secure warned about the first malware for the iPhone that can install a trojan virus on unlocked iPhones from Apple.

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Sid Meier Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

January 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

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Gameplay: Operator Wizzl Launches

November 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Wizzl At the Gameplay event last friday, Wizzl launched. Wizzle is a Skype like VOIP service, but is an official operator and is preparing to launch also on mobile.