Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Million-2-1 Signs Distribution Agreement with Rank

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Millioin-2-1 has announced that the company will be distributing it's mobile gambling games on Rank's network (one of UK's bigger gaming operators in the gambling market).

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MWC: GetJar Goes Commercial

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

GetJar is making a lot of noise lately with new, bright plans. The latest bit of news that surfaced over at Mobile Entertainment Magazine, is that the company will start offering paid downloads as well.

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MWC: Vyro’s Biometric Controller

February 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

It seems like mobile phone controllers are finally getting traction. Following the success of the Zeemote, a company called Vyro Games is putting their unique controller on the market.

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MWC: O2 Rewards Litmus Testers

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

O2's Litmus is probably one of the App Store concepts that we covered the most while it's not even on the market. Since a few weeks, Litmus has been open for Beta testing, and now O2 has teamed up with Mob4Hire to increase the testing quality.

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MWC: Zeemote Promotes “Mobile Console Gaming”

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Over at the Mobile World Congress, Zeemote is promoting what they call the next significant step in Mobile-Console Gaming, or MCG. This means combining a TV-out based phone and one or two Zeemotes for a home console experience.

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IGF Finalists Announced

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The Independent Games Festival has announced the mobile game developers that have been selected for their “Next Great Mobile Game” category at the IGF Awards.

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M-Biz to Offer Try-Before-You-Buy on Smartphones

February 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

M-Biz Global announced that its successful TnB Mobile solution (TryNBuy) for mobile game purchasing has been extended to include ‘native’ games working on several smartphone platforms.

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ARM Invests in Ideaworks3D

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Around the industry, we all know that 3D games are expensive to produce, hard to port and so, hard to make real money with. Yet companies like Ideaworks3D and Fishlabs keep fighting to stay in the market. Ideaworks3D seems to be succeeding by attracting their latest investor, ARM.

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Thumbstar Signs IndiaGames (And Then it Blows!?)

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Thumbstar Games has signed an exclusive distribution contract with IndiaGames to distribute it's mobile games in several key territories for the coming 18 months.

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Movaya Licenses Hooters

February 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Movaya has announced a licensing deal for the Hooters brand. The company is launching it's first iPhone mobile game at the same time, which is a Calendar based sliding puzzle.