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Capcom Includes iPhone in Console Pre-Orders

February 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Super Street Fighter will soon be launched on consoles as well as on the iPhone. To make sure the pending iPhone release get’s all the attention it needs, Capcom uses the console release to market it.

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Quake 3 Ported to Android in a Few Days

February 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

A Dutch amateur programmer has ported ID’s Quake 3 to Google’s Android platform. The developer said it took him hardly any time to convert the code, but optimizing it took ‘many days’.

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EA to Acquire Another Mobile Developer

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

EA Mobile seems set for expansion yet again as EA is acquiring Iron Monkey Studios. The amount has not been disclosed, but the company has been developing EA’s key franchises for some time.

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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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Javaground Sales Progressing

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

Just over two weeks ago, we reported that Javaground got into problems as one of their creditors, Myriad, claimed $2 Million and gave the company 10 days to settle their bill.

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Pocketgear Acquired Handango

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

App sales channel PocketGear has announced the acquisition of competitor Handango. Handango is one of the oldest independent sales channels for mobile games and applications for all platforms.

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App Stores State Of Play

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

During the Mobile World Congress, Distimo held a presentation named Mobile Application Stores

Apple to Expand iPhoneOS to Alternate Platforms

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has put a new job post online for an Engineering Manager (Platform Bring-Up). This job post suggests Apple is aiming to bring its new processor architecture to more platforms.

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Apple Responds to Adult App Removal

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Four days after Apple started to remove sexually themed apps, the company’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, responded in an interview with the New York Times.

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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.