Posts Tagged ‘Games’

SE Lowers Signing Prices

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: J2me | 2 Comments »

Developers who want to get on board of SonyEricsson’s PlayNow Arena Fun & Downloads service will now be allowed to get their J2me games signed at Thawte and Verisign.

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AppStore Hits 100.000, Officially!

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

A few weeks ago, we reported that Apple reched 100.000 apps (depending on the counting source). Last night, Apple confirmed they indeed passed the 100.000 line.

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AppStoreHQ Lists App by Twitter Popularity

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone users have gained yet another method to discover popular apps on the App Store. The website AppStoreHQ is now listing mobile games and apps based on their popularity on Twitter.

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Flurry: Books Surpass Games on iPhone

November 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Over the past months, books have become more and more popular on the iPhone. Over the months September and October, more books have been released then games according to Flurry.

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App Store Passes 100K Apps & Games

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

A new milestone has been reached by Apple as the company has now processed 100.000 apps in total (the word saturation buzzes inside my head), but there is something funny about this bit of news.

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Blue Beck Resurrected

October 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After selling the Blue Beck Studios to M-Forma in 2004, the name was more or less forgotten as it was functioning as a production unit for the company (later Hands-On, then probably sold to Connect2Media).

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PSPgo Allows Game Rentals

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

It seems Sony is planning to allow game rentals for the new PSP system. With this tactic it will not only shut out retail sales, but also rental stores that rent out UMD's for the older models.

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HandyGames Releases Second iPhone Games Analysis

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In their analysis series, HandyGames checks out the smaller marketing details of games on the App Store. As with the first series, they manage to find nice little details that can matter for marketing.

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ZuneHD, it Will Game

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

In a video advert that floats around YouTube, the Zune is promoted. Not only as a multimedia player, but also as a 3D handheld gaming devices. The only question is, will it sell enough?

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Android Market Improvements Coming

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Discovery of games has always been the number one issue Android developers complaint about. With the release of Anroid 1.6, the team will also update Android Market to allow better marketing of the titles on it.