Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Former IOMO Staff Launches TinRaven

March 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

IOMO has a broad history within the mobile games industry. Being bought and sold by InfoSpace some years ago, most of the company's staff landed at FinBlade. This week however, TinRaven was launched as well.

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Fishlabs Does Volkswagen

March 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Though FishLabs is not really known for it's iPhone adventures yet, the company has now released it's first advert game on the platform. It's a mobile 3D game in which the company promotes the new Volkswagen Polo.

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iPhone’s Ease of Development, a Danger for Quality

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 3 Comments »

Nic Watt, the founder of a small game development studio called Nnooo, has voiced his opinion on the ease of developing iPhone titles. The developer thinks that it is lowering the quality Benchmark.

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O.A.T.S. For Fair iPhone Reviews

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Remember the story we had last year about some territory manager at Glu that was trying to influence mobile game review results? Several iPhone sites have started a new campaign for fair reviews.

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Operators really, REALLY hate AppStores

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 7 Comments »

iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm, and now even Nokia with its
OVI. If you say AppStore, then most operators content revenues and
moods probably start shivering. Why is that? They are afraid that the
“AppStore”s, lets call them, will hit their mobile content, primarily
mobile game revenues – a lot. And yes, it’s true – they will.

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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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Kweekies, melting Pok

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Previews | 1 Comment »

Developer INT13 has sent us one of the coolest technology demo's we have seen this year. They showed us a very early version of their mobile game called Kweekies, which is a clever mix of Pok

Thousandapp.com, Selling adspace to iPhone Developers and Publishers

February 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Do you remember that website where some student sold advertising space per pixel? The power of his concept was that the media coverage would make sure advertisers get the attention they want.

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Glu’s Q4 Earnings Call

February 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu seems to be committed to launching many more mobile games focused at various smartphone platforms. The company will devote 30 to 40% of it's development time at it.

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Apple Pro Bush?

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

We came across an interesting story over at Pocket Gamer. It tells about a Pakistani developer who's mobile game was not allowed to launch on the App Store because it was mocking George Bush.