Posts Tagged ‘Brew’

Zeebo Console to Enter China

November 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Following a successful launch in Brazil and Mexico, Zeebo is planning to bring their console to the Chinese market. One of the strong features of the console is the low piracy rate versus cheap games.

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Pac-Man Does 30 Million Brew Downloads

July 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

In the year that Pac-Man is turning 30, Namco has announced that their key franchise has generated over 30 million downloads on the Brew platform in the US, proving that Brew is still bringing in good revenues.

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Metismo and OpenPath Form Strategic Alliance

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Metismo and OpenPath have agreed to share their development knowledge. As a result, Metismo gains Brew development experience right from the heart of the Brew markets.

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Vodafone Launches Brew Phone in EU Markets

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Vodafone has announced that it will be launching a Huawei phone in several European countries. With this launch, it is the first time Brew sets foot in many of these markets.

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GDC: BrewMP, Smartphones for the Masses

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Though Brew has always been a strong platform in the US, the platform never reached a substantial marketshare in markets like Europe and Asia. With the new BrewMP platform, that might change.

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Namco Licenses Flight Control for non-iPhone Platforms – UPDATED

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

This is one that no one saw coming. After transferring their European non-iPhone business to competitor EA Mobile, Namco now announces to have licensed Flight control for non-iPhone platforms.

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I-play Discontinues J2me/Brew Development and Distribution

February 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Rumors have been floating around MGB for weeks, but starting yesterday, I-play started to inform their developers about their intentions to end the support for Java and Brew based mobile games.

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Qualcomm’s Brew Free for All

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

The past year, many smartphone platforms have gone open source, meaning that smartphones have become a lot cheaper to manufacture. To avoid losing marketshare to smartphone platforms, Qualcomm has decided to open up Brew and make it a free platform for dumbphones.

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Zeebo Launches in Mexico

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Zeebo, the console aimed at the low budget consumer, will be launching on its second Latin American market; Mexico. The console is already supported by various mobile game developers as it only allows game purchases over a 3G connection.

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Fishlabs Heads to the Zeebo

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Fishlabs has announced that it will be starting up development of games for the Zeebo platform. The first mobile game that will be ported to the bigger screen will be Galaxy on Fire.