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Financials: Gameloft’s Q3 2008

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has announced their third quarter financial result. With

MyTopia Enters The Windows Mobile Market

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Mytopia Inc., announced that its mobile gaming community and line-up of mobile games for are now available to the Windows Mobile market.

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Android Market, The Financials

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Since the launch of the HTC G1 on T-Mobile, the Android market is now available to mobile game developers all over the world. This means that Google has also stated their business model.

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Mandalay Media (Twistbox) Acquires AMV

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mandalay Media, Owner of Twistbox and Waat Media, has completed the acquisition of AMV Holding. AMV is specialized in mobile media and marketing and delivers it's content along several European countries.

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Handmark Releases Glyph on App Store

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Developer Handmark has released yet another mobile game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This time it's Sandlot's casual puzzle game called Glyph.

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MGB Back in China

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »

Over the past years, Chinese companies had to do without our news. This was caused as our host was being blocked due to the content that is available on blogs.com.

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Mobile Distributor Thumbstar Launches

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Former TelcoGames employee Martin Kitney has started a new mobile games distributor called Thumbstar. With over 25 channels signed, he’s boosting the company into the market.

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Glu Goes Pennystock

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today has been a remarkable day for Glu. After a huge launch on the market. The shares have taken a dive today and closed at $ 0.96. This while in June 2007, the shares where worth well over $ 14.

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NGS: Snap Speeds J2me Development

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Good news for mobile game developers that utilize Nokia's Sn@p platform. With the newest SDK release (v2.2), Nokia promised that development time will be slimmed down.

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CGF: Apple Best Format Holder

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

At the Casual Games Forum in London, several developers spoke about the newly established format holder Apple. With it's iPhone, it is doing a great job in building and maintaining a brand as well as guiding developers.