Posts Tagged ‘I-play’

Hands-On Licenses Fieldrunners

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hands-On has licensed the very successful Fieldrunners brand from Subatomic. Fieldrunners is one of a few very successful iPhone titles that now find their way back into the classic mobile games industry.

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I-play Discontinues J2me/Brew Development and Distribution

February 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Rumors have been floating around MGB for weeks, but starting yesterday, I-play started to inform their developers about their intentions to end the support for Java and Brew based mobile games.

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Oberon Media Hires new CFO

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Oberon Media has appointed Pat Barry as their new CFO. Pat Barry is bringing in 15 years of CFO experience coming from companies like Warner Music Enterprises, Audible Inc. and Bluefly Inc.

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Oberon Media (I-Play) Restructures, Don Ryan Leaves

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The past week, Business Insider reported that Oberon Media (owner of i-Play) is restructuring. Amongst the changes, COO Don Ryan will be leaving the company in pursuit of his own dreams.

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I-play to Release Hip Hop All Stars EP

October 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Earlier this week we mentioned that I-play was giving away a full length MP3 to anybody that retweeted about their newly released Hip Hop All Stars game on the App Store. Now, the company is about to release a full EP.

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I-Play Launches Viral Twitter/MP3 Campaign

October 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In an effort to promote their new Hip-Hop All Stars game on the iPhone, I-Play has setup a new viral campaign based on Twitter that will allow consumers to score a free MP3 file.

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Namco Hires Jonathan Kromrey

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

More news surfaces on Namco's new Apple Games unit as they hired Jonathan Kromrey (fa ormer Apple games producer) to head up the division as general manager.

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I-Play Releases Deal or no Deal on App Store

November 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | 1 Comment »

I-Play is boosting the success of Deal or no Deal by launching a dedicated version for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the release, I-Play is showing that the App Store is also a great fit if your license doesn't permit a global launch of your mobile game.

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XENDEX and I-Play Announce Exclusive Flatout Mobile Deal

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Xendex and I-Play go back a long time. Ever since the first Freestyle Motocross games have hit the decks, Xendex was responsible for a lot of mobile gaming hits.