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SE Details App Store Strategy

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

In an exclusive interview from ME, Tim Green spoke with Christopher David (Head of Developer and partner engagement at SonyEricsson) about what SE's new app store will be offering toward the development community.

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Elonex Takes the iPhone into the Living Room

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the iGame Family, a company called Elonex has created an iPhone dock that will allow consumers to play iPhone games in a console style with wireless controllers.

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WebOS Preparing for European Launch?

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Rumours say we might enjoy the arrival of Palm's WebOS based devices later this year. Though there are no official announcements yet, the signs of the arrival are there.

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ngmoco Hires Jason Oberfest

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

ngmoco has announced the hiring of MySpace's former SVP of Business Development Jason Oberfest. He will take the role of VP of Social Application at the iPhone publisher.

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Bolt Creative to Charge for Updates

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As HandyGames recently announced with PocketGamer, selling iPhone games at 99 cents is destroying the market as consumer expectations are lowered. Pocket God, feels the pain already and will start charging for extra's via micro transactions.

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Dutch Shops Boycott PSPgo

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

The Dutch Nedgame chain has hit national newspapers today by openly announcing a boycott on Sony's new PSPgo. The handheld console should go on sale next month.

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Mobi Chill, the next Mosh?

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

Most of you will probably still remember Nokia's Mosh as the place where consumers uplaoded your games for free. Now, there is another portal that even allows them to earn money with it.

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Trip Hawkins on Self-Published, Owned IP 1/2

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over at DC's blog, CEO Trip Hawkins launched the first of a two part story in regards to self-published, Owned IP and the success of it in Apple's App Store.

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XNA Updated for Zune HD

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Microsoft's Zune HD went retail and is supporting apps from the start. Several developers had been given a head start by the developer, but now the XNA extensions for the Zune are available for all developers.

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Android SDK 1.6 Released

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google's Android team has released version 1.6 of their Android SDK (Also known as Donut). The new SDK offers support for more screen sizes and CDMA based mobile phones.