Posts Tagged ‘Games’

WebOS Apps Go Commercial

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced that is has started to accept paid apps for their WebOS aimed App Store. This way, mobile game developers can finally start earning money from Palm Pre owners.

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Samsung Opens Application Store for Developers – UPDATED

July 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Starting this Thursday, Samsung will be accepting applications from developers who want their mobile games to show up in Samsung's Application Store.

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WIN to Distribute Digital Chocolate in Puzzle Magazines

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Win announced that the company will be distributing mobile games from Digital Chocolate to readers of various puzzle magazines in the UK via simple SMS shortcodes.

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DGADAG: Games & Advertising

July 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

One of the group discussions was about games and advertising. Though this was a discussion without mobile developers, it will still be an interesting read through.

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Zed Launches First iPhone Games

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Zed announced it’s focus on iPhone development by the release of Bubble Boom and Carnival Hammer. The developer/publisher/distributor expects to release a lot more iPhone games along 2009.

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Shareholders Agree on Eidos Acquisition

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The acquisition of Eidos by Square Enix is another step closer as the shareholders have reacted positively on the offer of the Japanese games publisher Square Enix (which will make them Square Enix Eidos?)

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Rhomobile Also Releases Porting Platform

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Fragmentation is getting the core business of more and more companies lately. As so, Rhomobile also adds a new all-in-one solution where developers can create their applications and (simple, turn based games) in a mixture of HTML and Ruby.

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id Software Aims for iPhone

February 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

MTV Multilayer had an interview with the creator of Doom and Quake, Mr. John Carmack. Though the interview kicked off about the Wii, there was also a very interesting bit about id's plans with the iPhone.

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Mobclix Offers Realtime App Store Statistics

February 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | 2 Comments »

Today we received an e-mail about Mobclix, a new company (that is, we never heard of them before) with interesting statistics. We went to their site and where amazed by the interesting demographics that we found.

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Android Goes Commercial

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It was to be expected, but just before the week of the Mobile World Congress 2009 starts, Google is opening it's payment options to mobile game developers and publishers in the UK and the US.