Posts Tagged ‘ngmoco’

Plus+Problems for ngmoco

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We Rule is one of the most talked about iPhone titles from ngmoco, but it seems the game is so popular, it is leading to capacity problems for their Plus+ social gaming network.

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Ngmoco Raised $25m, Acquires Freeverse

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Shortly after raising $25 Million in funding, Ngmoco announced the acquisition of mobile game developer Freeverse. Freeverse celebrated it’s 5th million App Store download yesterday.

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ngmoco Turns to Freemium, Scraps Rolando 3 as Paid Title

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the success of their Eliminate Pro game in mind, ngmoco has changed its strategy from pay per download to the freemium model. As a result, the company started to make changes in their internal roadmap.

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iGameStats Reveals Top iPhone Publishers 2009

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

iGameStats based their results on the number of games released in compared to the scores they received in reviews (much like many of the other). Ngmoco took top spot with a 8.1.

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ngmoco Acquires Miraphonic

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

ngmoco continues to make a lot of noise in the industry. Following their successful launch on the app store over a year ago, they just completed their first acquisition of Miraphonic.

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Micropayments Connect Free and Top Grossing Charts

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Ngmoco has released its Eliminate Pro game on the App Store and as Jon Jordan noticed, it shows how success in the free games chart can translate in success for the top grossing chart as well.

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Ngmoco’s Yu on Piracy, Transactions and More

October 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Gamasutra visited the GDC in China and reported on a keynote from ngmoco VP Alan Yu. He talked about topics like piracy, transactions and their social function.

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ngmoco Hires Jason Oberfest

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

ngmoco has announced the hiring of MySpace's former SVP of Business Development Jason Oberfest. He will take the role of VP of Social Application at the iPhone publisher.

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ngmoco Hires Simon Jeffery and Starts Plus+

June 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

ngmoco has announced that the company hired former Sega of America president and COO Simon Jeffery as Chief Publishing Officer for their new Plus+ Publishing services.

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Zeebo, it’s Mobile and it’s Not

March 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Months ago, we posted about a brand called Zeebo and it's support from Qualcomm's Mike Yuen. Though speculations at that time pointed at just a new mobile gaming platform, it now turns out to be a full blown console, yet aimed at the mobile gaming market.