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MED – It’s TelcoGames All Over…

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 11 Comments »

Most of you still remember the collapse of TelcoGames and the horror it was for various parties (including the Menzies creditors) to get money from the management.

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End2End Enables Mobile Games Rental at Optimus

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

End2End has launched its Smart Pricing solution with Optimus in Portugal. Smart Pricing is a flexible pricing solution that makes it possible for Operators to offer consumers a variety of billing options besides buying mobile games.

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S60 is Ending

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

As part of the new plans for the Symbian Foundation, Nokia has announced that it will pull the plug on S60 by the end of June 2009.

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Financials: Gameloft’s Q1 09

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Last week, Gameloft released it's financial data for the first quarter of 2009. Though the holiday season was great, numbers seem a bot off year-on-year.

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HandyGames Turned 9!

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Last Monday was a new milestone for HandyGames. The Germany based mobile games developer has started on its tenth year of business.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Delayed

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft has chosen to delay the release of Windows Mobile 6.5. 6.5 is meant to be bridging the gap between Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7.

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App Store Downloads Pass One-Billion!

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we wanted to start with ‘Finally!’, it is actually amazing that Apple has managed to push over one billion app store downloads since the start, but what does it mean?

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Megu Launches Android AppStore

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Megu has announced their AppStore concept for Google’s Android platform. With the release of their platform, the company hopes to provide consumers a good alternative for the default store ran by Google.

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EatWillGrow Uses Twitter as Leaderboard

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Though most developers refer to Twitter as a way to communicate about games toward the community, Kode80 has actually adopted it as vital part of its EatWillGrow game in the hope to trigger a viral effect.

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iDonkeyKong, Apple Hasn’t Learned…

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last month, we reported the seize and desist letter that Nintendo sent to the developer of the Duckhunt game that was being sold in the App Store as well as Nintendo’s mission to take the Game & Watch collection offline. Now, Apple approved iDonkeyKong.