Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Artificial Life Licenses BMW

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hong Kong based mobile games developer and publisher Artificial Life has again signed a very interesting licence. This time, the company managed to get their hands on the BMW brand.

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Flurry Signs 300 Developers for it’s Free Analytics Service

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Flurry started the New Year with over 300 developers using its free service within the first 60 days of going Beta. Flurry is now making available its free service to all iPhone, Android, Blackberry and J2me.

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Herocraft Goes iPhone

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Russian developer Herocraft has announced that it's joining hundreds of developers by launching mobile games on the iPhone. The company kicks off it's portfolio with three titles.

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Apple’s App Store Passes 500m Downloads

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The rise of the App Store still seems far from over. According to the company, the App Store has served over 500 million downloads for iPhone and iPod Touch consumers world-wide.

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AllAboutiPhone Calls for Folders

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys over at AllAboutiPhone have written an editorial about the frustrations of the iPhone's limit to install only 148 applications. An annoying limit that has been described on a lot more blogs around the net.

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iPhone Browser Fragmentation

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the first days of the iPhone, a lot of developers created wab based games. Mainly as the Safari browser offered them a lot of additional freedom when it comes to scripting. Now it seems not every iPhone user will be able to utilize those possibilities any more.

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Javaground Brings J2me to iPhoneOS Conversion

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Javaground's Xpress Suite is not only a development and porting solution for J2me, but the tool also helps J2me developers to port their mobile games directly onto Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Appy Place Launches

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Another mobile games developer launched today. This one is called Appy Place and has laid it's focus on addicting 5 minute games for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.

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BulkyPix Rises from Vivendi’s Ashes

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This morning we found a brand new mobile games developer. It's name is BulkyPix. The company has been started by several formal members of the late Vivendi Games Mobile.

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BestAppEver Award Winners

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Last week, the winners of the BestAppEver 2008 awards where praised. This award is purely focussed at the iPhone offering and covered pretty much every category. Here are the gaming winners!