Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Handmark Releases Glyph on App Store

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

Developer Handmark has released yet another mobile game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This time it's Sandlot's casual puzzle game called Glyph.

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Mobile Distributor Thumbstar Launches

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Former TelcoGames employee Martin Kitney has started a new mobile games distributor called Thumbstar. With over 25 channels signed, he’s boosting the company into the market.

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NGS: Snap Speeds J2me Development

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Good news for mobile game developers that utilize Nokia's Sn@p platform. With the newest SDK release (v2.2), Nokia promised that development time will be slimmed down.

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AquaPhone, Micropayments Bring 2 Times The Revenue

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

The Russian developer Dynamic Pixels has announced that it's AquaPhone game has attracted 1 million gamers within the Russian Federation. The biggest success for the company isn't in just selling the game, but the highly attractive micro payments market.

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Handango Releases Android Channel

October 28th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Next to the on-device Android Market, consumers will now have another choice when it comes to downloading and purchasing mobile games for their HTC G1 devices.

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Glu Releases Two Mobile Games for Android

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

Hudson is not the only company that uses the momentum to release it’s mobile games for T-Mobile’s G1. Glu has just released their games “Bonsai Blast” and “Brain Genius”.

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Mpowerplayer Converts Mobile Games to Widgets

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Viral marketing is becoming more and more important to reach today’s public. Digital Chocolate has already experienced the power of viral marketing by promoting their mobile games on networks like Facebook. Mpowerplayer is now enabling this technique for the whole industry.

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Hands-On Unveils Developer network

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Though Hands-On had just sold it’s European mobile gaming business, it has now opened up the Beta version of their mobile developer network.

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Greystripe October 2008 Consumer Insights Report

October 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Greystripe has sent out a report on the ad-funded mobile gaming market. In this latest report, the company also shares results from their iPhone adwrapper.

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Spill Group Launches First Mobile Games Portal

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

Spill Group’s Marc van der Chijs has announced the release of their very first mobile games portal in China called shouji.game.com.cn (shouji = mobile phone in Chinese).

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