Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Commercial Android Apps Available in Two Weeks

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In an e-mail to to Android Market developers, Google's Eric Chu has confirmed that the company is on track with the support for commercial mobile games and applications. The launch however, will not be global.

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Digital Chocolate Goes iPhone as Well

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It took the company some time, but now Digital Chocolate has also started launching mobile games into Apple's App Store. The company kicked off with two mobile games for both iPhone and iPod Touch.

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App Store on Holiday Slowdown

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the holidays around the corner, Apple's App Store seems to be hit by a flood of mobile games. The direct result is that both applications and mobile games get stuck in the approval process.

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Hutchinson Goes Flatrate with Synapsy

December 11th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Hutchinson Austria has launched their 3MoreGames service. The service combines both the traditional subscription based gaming model as well as the one off purchase in a full 3 themed experience.

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Mpowerplayer Launches on Facebook

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Mobile gaming platform specialist Mpowerplayer has launched it's PR activities on the popular friends site Facebook. Through the app, gamers can play and even earn free downloads.

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Greystripe Starts Flash IAB Support

December 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Greystripe announced that they will now be offering advertisers the ability to target the iPhone audience through rich media ads including Flash IAB medium rectangles and game-in-game (or "tailgate") ads.

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Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2008

December 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Coming Wednesday night is an important night for many mobile game developers that operate their business in Germany. That night, the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2008 will be given to the best mobile game developer.

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Clearsky to Distribute Cellufun’s Platform

November 27th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Cellufun and ClearSky Mobile Media announced the availability of Cellufun's games community to ClearSky's operator partners. This relationship delivers its mobile games to a large network of more than two million customers in North America.

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Pangea Software Reaches 1 Million Downloads on App Store

November 25th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Success on big platforms can also be achieved by small developers. A good example is Pangea Software. A small developer that managed to generate over 1 million downloads on Apple's App Store.

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T-Mobile’s Own Device Support (Sucks)

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Since a few months, I own a MDA Vario IV from T-Mobile NL. It's also known as the wildly popular HTC Touch Pro. Great right? Not if you like mobile games and expect your operator to service you…