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IGF Nominees Revealed

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The 2010 nominees for the Independent Games Festival Mobile have been announced. This award is aimed at mobile game developers as well as handheld developers for the NDS and the PSP.

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Zune Phone Coming!?

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

It seems there will be a Microsoft Zune phone in the near future. The latest firmware for the Zune media players contains USB drivers which carry ‘phone’ in their naming. Those drivers refer to a Microsoft hardware ID.

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Petition for Open Competition on the App Store

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

Recently there have been a few stories where mobile games have been taken offline by Apple because a competitor filed a copyright infringement report, sometimes without clear proof.

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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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Distimo’s December App Stores Report

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

Distimo has released a new report on App Store usage over a variety of platforms and the developers behind those platforms. One of the findings shows EU developers price their apps 49% higher compared to the US.

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Player X Does Orange UK

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Another big break for Player X as the publisher secured a deal to exclusively deliver mobile games to the games portal of Orange. The service will be totally outsources to the publisher.

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C64 Emulator Receives OpenFaint Overhaul

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Kiloo has updated their Commodore 64 emulator and integrated OpenFeint support in it. This means consumers can compete on a not-so-retro global level in a-lot-more-retro C64 games.

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Fishlabs’ Waterslide Extreme Reaches 10 Million Downloads

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

Barclaycard’s Waterslide Extreme was already known as a very successful advertgame from Fishlabs. Now, the company revealed that this game attracted 10 million downloads since its release on July 16th 2009.

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Greystripe reveals Pay per Download Results

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few months ago, we reported that Greystripe was introducing a new pay per download model for developers. In theory this means Greystripe would deliver a guaranteed download in return for your 99 cents.

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IDC: Android to be 2nd Mobile OS by 2013

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

IDC expects Android to be the second biggest smartphone operating system by 2013. By that time, there will be over 390 Million devices in the market that have Google’s OS installed.