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Symbian Foundation into Publishing

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

With their Symbian Horizon programme, the Symbian Foundation is offering developers a possibility to publish their games onto various vendor stores and operators.

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Windows Mobile 6.5.1 Updates

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

It seems Microsoft is working on a big update for Windows Mobile 6.5.1 according to rom builder l3v5y. Though consumers will mostly experience changes to the interface, there will also be new hardware support.

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The Portable X-Box: Not IF but When

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In an interview with Kikizo, an executive from Microsoft outlined that the company is very interested in mobile gaming. The company will enter, but has no set timeline.

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Namco Forms Apple Games Namco Networks

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems Namco is in hot pursuit over EA as it is the second company to install a dedicated studio for iPhone games. EA launched a similar studio called 8lb Gorilla earlier this month.

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Luca Pagano Joins EA Mobile

July 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Coming from the well known mobile games and content aggregator Buongiorno, Luca Pagano has been announced to have taken a new position at EA Mobile as head of publishing for Europe.

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DoubleFusion Creates Nissan Advert Game

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Following closely after Volkswagen and BMW, Nissan has now also launched a game to promote one of their new cars. The game has been created to promote the new Nissan Cube.

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King.Com Goes iPhone

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Another online gaming giant has announced it's plans to start publishing it's games on Apple's iPhone OS. King.com has announced that their first mobile game, Amazon Survival, is now available.

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Windows Marketplace on Schedule

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Good news for Windows Mobile developers. The new Windows Marketplace is on schedule which means that it will be opening up for developers on July 27th of 2009.

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Push Problems for Jailbroken iPhones

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In a new offensive to halt jailbroken iPhones, Apple is now blocking push notifications for jailbroken iPhones that are not being used on their original networks.