Telefonica Users Get Limited Free Access to EA Games

April 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Telefonica/O2 has partnered with EA Mobile to provide its subscribers access to EA’s portfolio of mobile games including the new FIFA 12 and Monopoly franchises. There is a catch though… access is limited to three months after download. Read the rest of this entry »

Only 3 Editions of Windows 8 Ahead

April 18th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Windows licences have been over-complicated in the past years. There are so many editions, consumers often don’t know what to purchase. With Windows 8, that will change as Microsoft is releasing ‘only’ three versions of the operating system. Read the rest of this entry »

Zeptolab Strikes Gold with Cut the Rope

April 18th, 2012 by Dawn Siris Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zeptolab is an average-sized game developer based in Russia, with Misha Lyalin as its chairman and CEO. For a small company, Zeptolab sure made its mark by releasing a couple of games that really hit it big a couple of years ago. However, the most popular game that the company created and continues to be one of the most downloaded apps for handheld devices is Cut the Rope Game. The app, since being released in 2010, has been well-received by critics and became a sensation among gamers who are particularly into puzzle games. Read the rest of this entry »

HandyGames Reaches 20 Million Downloads on Nokia Store

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Great news from HandyGames today. The company announced to have served 20.000.000 downloads through the good ols Nokia (Ovi) Store. The news follows on the 25 million downloads the company announced last week. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon Drops $20 In-App Purchasing Limits

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Amazon only recently launched in-app purchases and, to avoid issues with the system, limited item pricing to $20. Amazon has now announced the end of that limitation. Read the rest of this entry »

DrawSomething Loses Daily Active Players

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

A few days ago, we already reported that DrawSomething was losing popularity in the Netherlands. Now, it turns out the amount of daily active drawers is declining on a larger level as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Nazara Strikes EA Distribution Deal

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Mobile game Publisher Nazara has struck an important deal with EA to take their mobile games to the Middle East. Amongst the channels Nazara will bring the EA titles to are the operators Saudi Telecom, Etihad Etisalat, Du and Viva. Read the rest of this entry »

iPad Mini is Coming!?

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

The iPad Mini has been rumoured to launch multiple times over the past years. The past weeks however, rumours have reached a new all-time high as Apple should have 6 million of them ready to sell in Q3. Read the rest of this entry »

TelyHD Brings Android Alternative to Google TV

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

TelyHD is an Xbox Kinect like webcam that can be mounted on top of TV’s to provide consumers with Skype functionality. Next to the interesting hardware, the device runs on Android. Read the rest of this entry »

Google to launch Google Drive Next Week!?

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

If rumours are right, Google is set to launch its new Google Drive service along next week. With the launch of Google Drive, the giant is finally launching its own storage service to battle those of Dropbox, Box.net and of course Microsoft. Why is this important to mobile developers? Read the rest of this entry »