Posts Tagged ‘J2me’

LemonQuest Leaves J2me, Sells Portfolio

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

The latest developer to leave the J2me market is LemonQuest. The developer is now trying to sell off its portfolio. The company will continue with a multi-platform MMORPG aimed at PC and Smartphones.

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Niccolo de Masi Responds to Glu Overhaul Story

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Earlyer this week, we reported on an interview between Jon Jordan and Glu CEO Nicollow de Masi in which the publisher seemed to make clear that J2me would no longer have a real future in the company.

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Namco Licenses Flight Control for non-iPhone Platforms – UPDATED

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

This is one that no one saw coming. After transferring their European non-iPhone business to competitor EA Mobile, Namco now announces to have licensed Flight control for non-iPhone platforms.

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MWC: Flexion Wraps Android Games

February 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following the success of Flexion on the J2me market, the Accumulate development team has now also developed a wrapper for Android. This new wrapper will have the same features as the J2me version.

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MWC: Glu’s Big Overhaul, No More J2me

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Jon Jordan sat down with Glu’s new CEO Niccolo de Masi, The interview he had pointed out that Glu will drop J2me, abandon brand licensing and hopes ‘Freemium’ will work out.

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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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IO’10 Charles Mcleod

January 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Metaflow is one of those companies that differentiates itself by being a service provider with a product offering that hasn’t got any real competition in the market. Charles Mcleod brought us his vision on what
2010 will be.

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3UK Expands Flexion Usage

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Earlier this year, Accumulate and H3G UK announced to be collaborating by using the Flexion technology for Try & Buy functionality on one of it’s sales channels. The trial proved successful.

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Is iPhone Piracy a Real Problem?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Lately, there have been a lot of stories where developers complaint over iPhone piracy. Some of them are long time mobile game developers and that made me wonder… is Piracy a problem? Is it even that new?

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SE Updates J2me SDK

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

SonyEricsson released version 2.5.0.4 of their J2me SDK. The release holds several bugfixes and should run more stable on Windows Vista systems. Something that apparently was a problem with the previous release.