Posts Tagged ‘Glu’

Glu Releases Deer Hunter 3

December 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Glu Mobile Inc. announced the launch of Deer Hunter 3 Mobile, the third in a series of mobile hunting games. Based on Atari's Deer Hunter brand, Deer Hunter 3 Mobile will include a lot of new features including hunting for big game, fowl and other types of prey.

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Glu Goes Ad-Funded

December 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »

Space Monkey, one of Glu's mobile games for iPhoneOS, is available for free to mobile gamers world wide. With this step, Glu has started to explore the world of ad-funded games for the iPhone.

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Community Interview with Greg Ballard

November 13th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 3 Comments »

During our phone call with Glu's senior director of global public relations Nicole Kennedy last Tuesday, we agreed that an interview with Greg Ballard would be a great way to explain more on what is happening with the company and the market.

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Glu Reacts to the Reviews Story

November 13th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Tuesday evening, Glu's senior director, global public relations, Nicole Kennedy, gave me a call on my way back from work to discuss our story on one of Glu's territory managers trying to influence reviews on Glu's mobile games.

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Glu Releases Transformers G1: Awakening

November 13th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | 1 Comment »

Glu announced the global launch of Transformers G1: Awakening, a mobile strategy game based on the popular entertainment franchise Transformers. Transformers G1: Awakening follows their 2007 mobile game.

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Glu’s Secret to Keeping Review Scores High

November 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 8 Comments »

Ever wanted to know how Glu acquires such high averages with their mobile game reviews? We have received a shocking e-mail conversation between a territory manager and a reviewer.

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Glu: The Call, The Numbers, The Problems…

November 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 8 Comments »

Not only Glu's financial results for Q3 came to light, the company also had their quarterly earnings call in which a lot of questions popped up. We took a closer look and also asked several people to submit their (anonymous) expectations on what will happen to the mobile gaming giant.

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Financials: Glu’s Q3 2008

November 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu (GLUU) opened up their Q3 financials. Many sources have already covered it, so this post will just contain the most important parts of the official release. In the next post, we will discuss the earnings call and sum up the most interesting bits of the company that opened today at $ 0.75 and last traded at $ 0.66 as we write this article.

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Glu Goes Pennystock

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today has been a remarkable day for Glu. After a huge launch on the market. The shares have taken a dive today and closed at $ 0.96. This while in June 2007, the shares where worth well over $ 14.

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Glu Releases Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Following their success with the first Madagascar license from Dreamworks, Glu has now released their second mobile Madagascar game called Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.