Posts Tagged ‘Free’

Fishlabs Does Volkswagen Again

March 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | 3 Comments »

Though Volkswagen’s last iPhone game was in collaboration with FireMint for a special Golf edition of their Real Racing game, the company returned to Fishlabs for their Think Blue. Challenge.

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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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Konami Releases PES Fan App

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (PES) is one of Konami’s biggest titles this season. To support retail sales, the company has released a free PES card trading game on the iPhone platform.

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EU Fines D2C Channels over Scams

November 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following 18 months of investigation on 301 websites that sell mobile content, the EU has decided to fine a large number of direct to consumer channels over ‘Ringtone Scams’.

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Zune HD’s 3D Games Offering

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Some time back, Microsoft announced support for 3D gaming on their Zune HD media player. Now, they have arrived and Microsoft has chosen to make them available for free.

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Apprupt, iPhone Analytics Service Launches

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apprupt, a new analytics platform for iPhone developers, has launched. The platform will allow developers to track how many downloads are generated from their advertising campaigns.

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Palm to Change Apps Policy

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Coming December, we will see a very interesting update on Palm's WebOS. The company will be allowing apps to be installed from third party channels and will drop the $99 fee for open source apps.

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FishLabs Does Second Volkswagen Game

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few hours ago, we spotted a Twitter message announcing a preview video of their new adfunded Volkswagen racing game Scirocco R 24H Challenge. Google told us the rest.

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Greystripe Does an Axe Game

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Though most of you consider Greystripe to be just an advertising network for your mobile games, the company has now shown capable of delivering a full branded game experience for the iPhone.

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WebOS Mojo SDK Leaked

June 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

For all those wanting to develop for WebOS, but unwilling to wait, there is a leaked version of the SDK floating around the internet. This might give many of you a head start with your games.