Posts Tagged ‘TelcoGames’

Darren Newnham Surfaces at TeePee

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Following a career as business developer for the famous SEGA Europe company and a role as Head of Licensing at the notorious publisher Telcogames, Darren Newnham now surfaces at Tony’s TeePee Games.

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The ROK Soap

February 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A few months back, we reported the acquisition of Player One by ROK and soon after, the fact that Player One was going in administration. ME investigated ROK and manage to shed some light on the case.

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TelcoGames

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

It took well over a year, but finally MCR Corporate Restructuring changed the status of TelcoGames Ltd from ‘in Administration’ to ‘Dissolved’. With this final step, the books can finally be closed and debts written off. Time of death: October 13th 2009.

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Thumbstar, a year after…

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Distribution | 4 Comments »

Most of you probably remember how TelcoGames went bust, leaving debts all over the market and of course a lot of employees on the streets. One of them, Martin Kitney, has started his own aggregator and has been trading for over a year now.

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MED – It’s TelcoGames All Over…

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 11 Comments »

Most of you still remember the collapse of TelcoGames and the horror it was for various parties (including the Menzies creditors) to get money from the management.

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Former Telcogames Exec Starts Dojo

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 3 Comments »

Jamie Conyngham and David Kainer have started a new mobile games company called Dojo. Sounds familiar? That might be because DoJa was a Java version used for i-mode games. Clever choice for a name, but there's more…

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MED Limited’s Late Payments (the Soap Continues)

November 27th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Not long after Mobile Entertainment Distribution Limited (MED Ltd.) bought the assets of Telcogames off Menzies, we already noticed that the company was behind in paying their debts. Now, months later it's happening all over again.

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MED Signs 7Seas Technologies

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 4 Comments »

Since Telcogames was transformed into MED, we haven't heard any news for a while. Today however, we found out that MED signed a deal with 7Seas to bring their 3D mobile games to Europe.

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Mobile Distributor Thumbstar Launches

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Former TelcoGames employee Martin Kitney has started a new mobile games distributor called Thumbstar. With over 25 channels signed, he’s boosting the company into the market.