Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Android Equipped With Kill Switch

October 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Just like the iPhone, it seems that Google’s Android devices are also equipped with a killswitch. This means that someone can deactivate software from a distance.

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Android Already At 1.5 Million Units

October 14th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google’s highly anticipated Android platform seems to be taking a leap into the sales charts as T-Mobile announced to have 1.5 million pre-orders for the new G1 smartphone from HTC.

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Trip Hawkins on Innovation Through the iPhone

October 14th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | No Comments »

It is no secret that the iPhone is shaking up the mobile games market. Suddenly small developers get a chance to star on the App Store and competitors of Apple start launching their rival stores in the hopes to mimic the success.

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GetJar Opens on 3 UK

October 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

App and games portal GetJar has launched its mobile portal op UK operator 3. The deal allows even more consumers to download its library of mobile games and applications.

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Apple Drops NDA (Partly)

October 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Finally there is some good news to be
reported on the Apple NDA. The company will drop it for all games
that get published on the App Store. That way, developers can finally
start discussing technologies.

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Developers Pay Datatraffic at T-Mobile Store?

October 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

Following the news that T-Mobile would
open its own version of the App Store, more details are surfacing.
One of the most remarkable is that developers will pay for user
generated data traffic.

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THQ to Distribute Player One Games

October 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

THQ Wireless has announced a new
distribution deal in which the mobile games publisher will gain the
rights to publish several Player One mobile games for the coming five
years.

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Apple Fixes Release Date Sorting

October 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Apple has made yet another correction to its App Store. This time the company took the time to fix the sorting based on the release dates of mobile games.

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Connect2Media Announces 12 Games for Android

October 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | 1 Comment »

It seems the race is on for Android. Namco and Glu proudly announced their first games, but Connect2Media is jumping into the market with 12 release announcements!?

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