Posts Tagged ‘Competition’

Microsoft Opens Dream.Build.Play 2012 Challenge

March 5th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

In order to get more developers interested in developing new and innovative apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone and XBLA platforms, the company has rebooted the Dream.Build.Play competition it successfully launched back in 2011. Developers will compete for a total of $112.500 in cash prizes.

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BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 Announced

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

The BlackBerry Challenge 2011 has started off, accepting submissions for the first competition. This first competition is about developing the best Adobe Flash/Air app for RIM’s Playbook.

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Palm Extends $1 Million Developer Competition

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

In Palm’s Hot Apps Rewards, the company extended the deadline to June 30th. With a special leaderboard, developers are also updated on their performance in the competition.

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Petition for Open Competition on the App Store

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Recently there have been a few stories where mobile games have been taken offline by Apple because a competitor filed a copyright infringement report, sometimes without clear proof.

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$99 iPhone 3Gs 8GB Ahead

November 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rumors say AT&T is feeling the competition from Verizon’s droid handset. To counter the competition, Apple and AT&T would be launching a brand new edition of the iPhone 3Gs for this holiday season.

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PSP Minis vs. The Real Thing

October 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

With this story (which is much smaller) we conclude the vs. series for this week by looking at the full PSP games. We will however be keeping an eye on pricing strategies all over the PSN network.

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PSP Minis vs. PSone Channel

October 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Following our quick PSP vs. iPod review yesterday, we are taking a deeper look at the the competition which Minis is receiving from the classic PSone titles that PSN is offering gamers.

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Windows Marketplace Race to Market Started

July 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft has started their 'race to market' competition for their new Windows Marketplace. This means developers can start submitting their games to the marketplace and try to win prizes at the same time.

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Gameloft Starts @CastleOfMagic Naming Contest

July 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Following the release of Caslte of Magic, Gameloft has announced a competition in which players can name the character for the next mobile game it will appear in.