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Slide To Play Teams up With Gamespot

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Remember the good old Gamespot Mobile part from a few years back? It was coming from the acquired Wgamer site that involved reviewer Steve Palley. Now, he made a new deal with them based on his site Slide to Play.

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PSPgo Allows Game Rentals

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

It seems Sony is planning to allow game rentals for the new PSP system. With this tactic it will not only shut out retail sales, but also rental stores that rent out UMD's for the older models.

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Windows Marketplace Lacks Security

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Shortly after the launch of Windows Marketplace, developers seem dissatisfied with the quality of the security. It seems relatively easy to hack mobile games and applications offered on the store.

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PopCap Secured $22.5 Million Funding

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

PopCap has just confirmed it's first round of funding and has successfully raised $ 22,5 million in it. The funding round was lead by Meritech Capital Partners.

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Glu Jumps on Windows Marketplace

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft has launched it's marketplace today and one of the first publishers announcing their released is Glu. Might this be why their stock (GLUU) is up since yesterday?

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MediaMarkt and Makro Boycot PSPgo as Well

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

We reported before on a Dutch chain of game stores that where boycotting the PSPgo from Sony. More retail chains are now joining them leading to problems for those that do want to buy one.

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Adobe: Flash on iPhone is Possible… Now!

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

It seems Adobe has finally given up on getting Flash embedded on Apple's iPhone OS. Instead, they now do something we saw others do earlier to get Flash apps installable on Symbian… They wrap them!

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What’s up with Glu?

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Thurday, Jill Braff suddenly announced that she will be leaving at the end of this week. With her leaving, the company would be floating around but… since yesterday, Glu seems to be doing very well on the stock market.

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Easy Gestures in Android 1.6

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the release of the new Android 1.6 SDK, the team has introduced a new API that will help developers to support gestures without putting too much time in writing the actual code.

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Odroid on Preorder in Korea

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Korean developers can now sign up for reordering the developer edition of the new Odroid console. The Odroid console is a handheld Android gaming machine that seems to combine a PSP and iPhone.