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Thanksgiving Decreases App Store Pricing

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we are an ocean away, it’s clear Thanksgiving has a huge impact on mobile game pricing within the App Store. Many companies have lowered the prices of their products.

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TAG Games’ First Publishing Deal in

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the growing competition, it’s hard for small developers to compete on the App Store. To assist those developers, TAG announced interest in publishing third party games.

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EA not Interested in Android?

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

This week, Gameloft announced to cut expenses on Android because of lacking performance. A day after, it confirmed support for Android 2.0. ME’s Stuart Dredge started to dig into EA, the biggest publisher in the market today.

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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

Orange Opens Discussion Platform

November 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

In an attempt to leverage innovation in mobile apps, games and other forms of entertainment, Orange has launched an open discussion platform for all those in the industry.

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Volker Joins Scoreloop

November 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Having just revived the BlueBeck Studios about a month ago, Volker Hirsch is now joining Scoreloop as strategic advisor. With many years of experience in mobile and social platforms, this could be a perfect match.

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Android and Chrome OS Will Merge

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google founder Sergey Brin has announced that Android and Chrome OS will be merged at some point. Then and which name the OS’ will receive is unknown for now.

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Facebakers Launches

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Most of you probably remember MobileGamesDB, a website that tracks ratings of mobile games from various sources. The makers of that portal have just released a new project called FaceBakers.

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Jailbreaked iPhones Compromise Bank Accounts

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

What is the perfect way to scare people out of jailbreaking their iPhones? Suggesting they might lose their money! Today, the Dutch ING bank found out that hackers are using jailbroken phones to steal bank accounts.

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Riptide Reveals In-Game Payment Results

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

iPhone developer Riptide Games has disclosed statistics on their in-game sales in full detail. They will continue to do so over the coming time and we have received permission to copy their details on MGB