Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Microsotf’s ZuneHD, Will it Game?

May 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Microsoft has announced their long awaited competitor for the iPod Touch; the ZuneHD. The device will be fully connected with the XBLA experience, but will it game?

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Capcom Licensed Discovery Brands

May 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Capcom has signed a deal with Discovery Communications (part of the Discovery Channel) to develop mobile games based on two of their successful shows; Cash Cab and Deadliest Catch.

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Juniper: Freemium Apps Model to Dominate

May 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Juniper expects that mobile games and applications with a VAS model will dominate the market by 2014. Revenues could reach $ 14 Billion says their latest report.

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Vodafone to Release an App Store Too

May 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It seems Vodafone is also jumping the bandwagon as they announce their own App Store. The news was to be expected as competitor O2 (Telefonica) has been making a lot of noise around their Litmus App Store and T-Mobile and AT&T also have their App Stores in place.

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Warner Bros to Distribute for Cobra Mobile

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Chillingo was one of the first companies we noticed that started to distribute mobile games to the App Store. While the App Store is available directly to all operators, it seems to be a very interesting business model as Warner Bros is jumping into that market as well with Cobra Mobile.

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Experts on Operators and Their App Stores

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last week, Opinions in Mobile posted an interesting question toward their expert panel; Do you think operators will fight back in APPSTORES and bring a competing proposition, what is your view on them succeeding?

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TSA Signs InLogic

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

The Slovakian developer InLogic has signed an important deal with Total Sports Asia (TSA) to distribute ringtones, wallpapers and mobile games across TSA’s mobile client network.

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Glu’s Q1 2009

May 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu has announced it’s financial results for the first quarter of 2009. Losses are down, which is a positive sound. We analysed the press release and conference call about it.

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Tecmo Heads to iPhone

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last time I had seen Tecmo do something with mobile was at the E3 in 2005. As most people on the event said, their quality was behind the standards at that time. Now the company takes on the iPhone and the first screens show that they have learned a lot in the mean time.