Posts Tagged ‘China’

Low Demand for the iPhone in China

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When China Unicom announced to start selling the iPhone in China, we already reported that the number of devices in the first batch was very low for that market. Reports are now coming in that the iPhone is even less popular than expected.

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Ngmoco’s Yu on Piracy, Transactions and More

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Gamasutra visited the GDC in China and reported on a keynote from ngmoco VP Alan Yu. He talked about topics like piracy, transactions and their social function.

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SE Sticks Java onto Low End 3G Devices

June 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has announced that the company will make available Java on their entry level 3G phones that are meant for distribution in countries like China.

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WWF China Starts Mobile Campaign

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

The World Wildlife Fund in China has chosen to use an augmented reality mobile game to inform China’s youngsters about the importance of the environment they live in. The game will mainly target the ones living in the big cities.

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World Cyber Games Announces Mobile Entries

April 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | 1 Comment »

During this year’s World Cyber Games tournament, mobile games will return once again (though the press release is not totally clear about Samsung’s support for 2009).

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Glu & The Risk of Conversion

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though company remains struggling to hold their position within the changing mobile games market, one great lesson to learn is that conversion can lead to loosing money for nothing.

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Spil Aims Flash Lite Mobile Games Domination

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Marc van der Chijs, the Spil Games Asia CEO, expects that Spil Games will be leading the mobile games market in about three years. The company expects that the market will move to Flash Lite.

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Spill Group Launches First Mobile Games Portal

October 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Spill Group’s Marc van der Chijs has announced the release of their very first mobile games portal in China called shouji.game.com.cn (shouji = mobile phone in Chinese).

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