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GDC: Gameloft Talks DSi Ware

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | No Comments »

The guys over at Gamasutra sat down with Gameloft’s worldwide publishing senior VP Gonzague De Vallois to talk about the publisher’s plans to release games for Nintendo’s DSi Ware platform.

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Channel 4’s iPhone Developer Funding

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The UK based broadcaster Channel 4 has opened up a new fund for mobile game developers. The company has set aside a nice sum of money for any developer that has a lean plan to stretch the new 3.0 firmware to its limits.

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N-Gage Officially Dropped N73

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In our latest interview with Dr. Mark Ollila, we asked him if there where any plans on supporting the good old N73. Sadly enough, he did not give us a yes or a no when it came to this subject.

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GDC: Zeebo Partner Update

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Yesterday, we covered the news that Qualcomm is finally releasing Zeebo in the Brazilian market. Meanwhile, we have started to check around on the internet to find out which content partners already signed up for the Brew/3G based console.

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Orange UK Reveals Consumer Metrics

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

UK operator Orange has revealed some interesting metrics about their userbase. Orange consumers seem keen on surfing the mobile web (though mainly from home) and wide acceptance toward mobile marketing.

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Nokia Acquired Minority Stake in Obopay

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia seems to further diversify its reach in the global mobile content industry. As so, the Finish giant has invested enough in Obopay to acquire a minority share in the Redwood based mobile billing provider.

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Glu Signs FusionOne for DRM

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 5 Comments »

Transferring mobile games from one handset to another might become a tandard service soon if it’s up to FusionOne. The company has just signed up Glu as its customer for the technology.

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GDC: Winners IGF Mobile Awards

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Yesterday at the Game Developer Conference, the IGF awards where handed out to their respective winners. Interestingly enough, all winners where iPhone entries except one. The non-iPhone winner was a Nintendo DS game.

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GDC: Glu Signs 5 New Activision Licenses

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Glu Mobile announced to bring five new Activision titles to the mobile gaming platform. The upcoming titles will be published worldwide for carriers and application stores that support Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME and Windows Mobile.

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GDC: N-Gage Hits 1 Million

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Nokia’s N-Gage platform is growing fast. Though in October, the platform was still at only 400.000 subscribers, it has now grown all the way to 1 million of them now.