Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

Rhomobile Also Releases Porting Platform

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Fragmentation is getting the core business of more and more companies lately. As so, Rhomobile also adds a new all-in-one solution where developers can create their applications and (simple, turn based games) in a mixture of HTML and Ruby.

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Disney to Downsizing Mobile Gaming Efforts – UPDATED

March 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Strong industry rumors are flying all around about the expected end of Disney’s efforts in mobile gaming. Of course, we have taken the time to try and dig up all information we could get about it.

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M-Biz Hits 10X Industry Average Conversion Rate

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

M-Biz Global announced that about 50% of EU consumers with mobile phones, (That hold their Try n Buy Software), purchase a mobile game. This is above the 5% average figure from operator portals and other WAP sites.

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Exit Games Releases new Cross-Platform Multiplayer Engine

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

Exit Games announced their fastest multiplayer engine for PC, Mac, browsers and mobile devices called Photon. It allows players to compete against each other on a various gaming platforms.

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KPN Users Crowdsourcing for new MMORPG Idea

February 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

To promote mobile games amongst their clients, and create a bigger awareness of mobile services, Dutch operator KPN has decided to use one of Holland's biggest games sites' community to come up with fresh ideas.

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Financials: EA (Mobile)

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

THQ isn't the only company that suffered bad financial result last quarter. EA has taken a loss of $ 641 million and will also slim down in order to make their company healthy again.

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IGF Finalists Announced

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

This industry has two big awards that everybody seems to want to join in on these days. One is the good old IMGA, the other is, the still fairly new, IGF Awards. That last one announced the list of this year's finalists today.

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CTIA: Mytopia Sets Sail to Mobile

September 11th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Real-time cross-platform gaming developer and publisher Mytopia has announced that it will extend the reach of its platform to mobile. Currently, the platform is already plugged into various social networks.

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Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti’s holiday give-away

November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti have teamed up for the holidays and announced to give away 7 different mobile games to clickgamer customers and visitors. Clickgamer hopes to boost sales for the holiday period and attract new customers.

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TIM Italy starts to Brew

November 14th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 2 Comments »

Qualcomm and TIM Italy, Italy’s largest operator, have announced to start deploying handsets which feature’s Qualcomm’s Brew solution. With this move, TIM hopes to improve it’s leadership in the market and innovate it’s 3G and HSDPA networks even more. The first games announced to go live on TIM’s Brew portal are coming from Gameloft. Also TIM announced it will use uiOne, which is the idle screen advertising system on Brew.

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