Posts Tagged ‘SEGA’

SEGA, EA and Gameloft in App Store Pricewars

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems Valentines-day is the perfect momentum to start a new war. A price war that is, started by good old Electronic Arts with their “I Love 99¢” promotion.

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SEGA Reorganizes

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

SEGA has announced that it will reorganize its US and UK offices. As a result of this reorganization, 37 employees of the London office and 36 employees of the San Francisco office will be laid off.

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SEGA to Launch Emulator on the App Store

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Following the Commodore emulator of Kiloo, SEGA will now also start selling an emulator for their classic Master System on the App Store. In fact, the emulator will be free with one game, but the others will have to be purchased.

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Nokia’s N900, Playing with Fire

November 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Gaming Gear | 2 Comments »

Nokia’s N900 is the new flagship device of the company and one of it’s gaming features is a set of emulators. The company demonstrated the emulators with games from companies like Nintendo

DevCon: Rim Announces OpenGL Support

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced to start implementing OpenGL ES into their handsets. With the implementation of OpenGL, the company is increasing its commitment toward the mobile games industry.

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SEGA’s Consumer Brainstorm Session

July 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

SEGA has without a doubt, one of the biggest libraries of games around. Most of them are suitable for conversion to mobile/iPhone. As so, SEGA asks the community which game they should convert next.

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SEGA Ditches Glu for Gameloft?

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 5 Comments »

It seems Glu is getting a new kick toward the it's grave as one of it's biggest partners, SEGA, seems to be switching to it's number 1 competitor Gameloft!

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SEGA Slims Down

February 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following statements from fellow game developers, SEGA Sammy Holdings has announced that the company will be shrinking in order to survive the ongoing credit crunch which is hitting the industry.