Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Mobile Amusements Releases Snow Slots on App Store

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Long time mobile game developer Adrian Cummings has released Snow Slots for the iPhone. Equipped with an all new mini game, Snow Slots is ready for slot machine addicts all over the world.

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And so Ends Vivendi Games Mobile

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today, we received a copy of an e-mail from Vivendi Games Mobile which went to it's European operators and other sales channels. In the e-mail, the company announces to stop the cooperation.

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Mobile Audio Blues

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

I am noticing a trend among mobile game
developers today. Many of the commercial games out there offer
screenshots as well as a sample video of the gameplay. The problem
is that these videos usually have the sound completely removed!
Sometimes there will be higher resolution music placed in the demo to
promote the game, but it usually is thrown in at the last minute and
has no relevance to the movement on the screen.

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China Mobile Plans Own App Store

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

One of the biggest operators in the world is without doubt China Mobile. It is that operator that has now chosen to start developing their own version of the App Store in order to further stimulate mobile gaming uptake.

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Buongiorno Does 3 UK & IR

November 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Another victory for content aggregator Buongiorno, as the company managed to haul in an exclusive deal with Three UK & IR to deliver their white label mobile games store.

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Fishlabs Games for Free on 123Play

November 16th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 2 Comments »

Germany based 3D game developer Fishlabs has joined the list of developers that make their mobile games freely available via Helsinki's ad-funded mobile games service 123play.com.

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Gameloft Licenses Spiderman and Iron Man

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

Gameloft announced an exclusive multi-year, multi-product mobile game licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment. The agreement commences in 2009 with mobile games based upon the comic book adventures of Spider-Man, as well as a mobile game based upon Iron Man 2, 2010's blockbuster sequel to the $570 million worldwide box office smash.

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Gameloft Wins iLounge’s Game Developer of the Year and Game of the Year Awards

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | 1 Comment »

Gameloft, was selected today by the editors and readers of iLounge as the "iPod and iPhone Game Developer of the Year" for its contributions to iPod and iPhone gaming. Editors also chose Gameloft's Platinum Sudoku as the "Game of the Year".

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MyTopia Enters The Windows Mobile Market

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Mytopia Inc., announced that its mobile gaming community and line-up of mobile games for are now available to the Windows Mobile market.

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Android Market, The Financials

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Since the launch of the HTC G1 on T-Mobile, the Android market is now available to mobile game developers all over the world. This means that Google has also stated their business model.