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Dynamo Games Wants Premium App Store Channel

June 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In a story about the latest and greatest from the WWDC, Brian McNicoll from Dynamo Games explained the need for a premium games channel on the app store.

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Taito Signs GameJam 2008 Winner Waterways

June 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Taito (owned by Square Enix Holdings) has signed a deal with Dutch studio Rough Cookie to bring their GameJam 2008 award winning mobile game concept Waterways to the iPhone.

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LG’s App Store and Android Plans

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In a story on Reuters, LG reveals that it will be launching an App Store next month and is working on Android based handsets to launch next to their Windows Mobile offerings.

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Trixcell Brings More Magic to the Phone

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Before reading this article, we took a look at a YouTube video that was sent with the press release. The video is of a mobile game/app called Spoon! and shows something we haven't seen on mobile yet; Magic!

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itsmy Games Launches

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

Mobile social media platform itsmy has launched a dedicated mobile games unit that will be creating browser based mobile games, or wap games.

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T-Mobile NL Leaks iPhone Hardware Details

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

For those reading our story on fragmentation due to the new hardware from Apple, here are more details as to what the iPhone 3GS is offering the consumers thanks to T-Mobile NL.

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ESA Wants App Store Ratings

June 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

ESA is well aware of mobile. Having planned a ratings system for mobile games before (which didn't take off as expected), the organisation now wants ratings on the App Store.

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Playlogic Heads for iPhone

June 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Following their mobile gaming adventures with Overloaded (Xyanide), Playlogic Entertainment didn't really make any noise in mobile for some time. Now, the company is back to take it's chances at the App Store.

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WWDC: iPhone 3.0 Firmware and Apps

June 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Together with the presentation of the new iPhone, Apple also announced that the much discussed 3.0 firmware will be available for download as of June 17th.

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WWDC: iPhone 3GS(peed) Update

June 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday evening, Apple introduced the new iPhone 3GS to the public. In this post we go in on all the news that came out and might interest the mobile game development community.