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Airtel Goes Flat Fee on Mobile Games

September 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Airtel, India's biggest operator, will be launching a flat fee mobile gaming service called GamesClub. The GamesClub service will be powered by Nazara and Synapsy.

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PSP Minis Might Head to UMD

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

In an interview with Develop, Sony announced the possibility of the PSP Minis ending up on a UMD. Release on UMD is very interesting for the older PSP models that will remain popular in markets where Wi-Fi is less developed like South America.

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ZuneHD, it Will Game

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

In a video advert that floats around YouTube, the Zune is promoted. Not only as a multimedia player, but also as a 3D handheld gaming devices. The only question is, will it sell enough?

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FishLabs Does Second Volkswagen Game

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few hours ago, we spotted a Twitter message announcing a preview video of their new adfunded Volkswagen racing game Scirocco R 24H Challenge. Google told us the rest.

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Nokia Launches MyDailyApp.com

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia has launched yet another initiative to drive traffic to their OVI Store. With MyDailyApp.com, the company will review one app or game every day and provide a deeplink to it.

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EA and Gameloft’s App Store Pricing Analysed

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Jon Jordan has taken the time to analyse the price differences bethween EA, Gameloft and prette much the rest of the developers that managed to hit the top 100 in the US app store.

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Cloakware DRM Launches on Android

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following the success of their OMA based DRM solution, Cloakware is now launching it's DRM services for the Google Android mobile game development community.

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Sky Expands iTV Casino’s to Mobile

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Sky, an operator of interactive TV, mobile and internet services in the UK has announced that it will make it's casino services available in mobile through a partnership with WagerWorks.

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HeroCraft Dumps Old Symbian Games

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

HeroCraft has chosen to make it's back catalogue of Symbian titles freely available to consumers that visit their website. The games are not ad-funded, but do hold an option to purchase more recent titles.

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NTT DoCoMo to Acquire Net-M

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is making a voluntary public tender offer to acquire the shares of Net Mobile AG, a mobile content distributor located in D