Posts Tagged ‘J2me’

Telefonica Users Get Limited Free Access to EA Games

April 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Telefonica/O2 has partnered with EA Mobile to provide its subscribers access to EA’s portfolio of mobile games including the new FIFA 12 and Monopoly franchises. There is a catch though… access is limited to three months after download.

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HandyGames Reaches 20 Million Downloads on Nokia Store

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Great news from HandyGames today. The company announced to have served 20.000.000 downloads through the good ols Nokia (Ovi) Store. The news follows on the 25 million downloads the company announced last week.

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Nazara Strikes EA Distribution Deal

April 17th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Mobile game Publisher Nazara has struck an important deal with EA to take their mobile games to the Middle East. Amongst the channels Nazara will bring the EA titles to are the operators Saudi Telecom, Etihad Etisalat, Du and Viva.

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Facebook Goes J2me

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Facebook took a rather interesting step yesterday as the social network announced their new Facebook for ‘Every Phone’ app. Yes, Facebook has chosen to enter the ‘old’ world of J2me.

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AppCon: Are the Small Developers Godsend?

November 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

David Hamilton from Digital Goldfish discusses the pro’s and cons of being a small developer in a (by now) huge industry.

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Vodafone Iceland Selects Selatra for Games and Apps

August 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Though Selatra has been silent for a long time, the aggregator seems to have been working out a sweet deal with Vodafone Iceland that puts them in charge of games and apps.

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Behind the Bada OS – UPDATED

June 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

The day after we visited Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 DevHub, MGB visited the Samsung Bada Developer Event in Amsterdam. Just like our Windows Phone 7 post, a big part of this story will have information you already know, yet there might be some scoops in this one as well.

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Zeemote Offers Android SDK’s

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Mobile game developers can now also activate Zeemote support for their Android games. Following a successful release of their J2me and BlackBerry SDK’s, the company has now released an Android SDK.

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HMV and Orange Developing App Store

March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

HMV and Orange have announced their plans to release an app store called HMV Games. The app store will be focused at J2me content and should support 1.000 different phone models.

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HandyGames Not Leaving J2me

March 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

In an interview with Jon Jordan, HandyGames CEO Christopher Kassulke announced that the company will not abandon the classic J2me market, a sharp contrast to many other voices in the market.