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Apple’s 13 Million

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has opened the books on it’s iPhone sales efforts. The company has managed to sell a massive 13 million iPhones, which means they could be the third biggest handset vendor in the world today.

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Blackberry App Store Confirmed

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

It has been a rumor for some time, but RIM (maker of the famous business focused Blackberry device series) has announced that they will release an App Store like mobile games and applications channel.

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Mpowerplayer Converts Mobile Games to Widgets

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Viral marketing is becoming more and more important to reach today’s public. Digital Chocolate has already experienced the power of viral marketing by promoting their mobile games on networks like Facebook. Mpowerplayer is now enabling this technique for the whole industry.

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Chillingo Releases Halloween Party on App Store

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

With their Halloween Party application, Chillingo joins the growing list of developers that are haunting the App Store with Halloween content.

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S60 J2me: Security Prompting Update

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 1 Comment »

Unlike native Symbian games, J2me games have always been bothered with tight security restrictions on S60 devices, leading to endless popups, time and time again.

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Android Finally Open Source

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Apple announced it a long time ago, Android would be open source software. Now, Google finally opened up the source for every handset vendor to play around with.

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EdgeLib Goes iPhone

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Elements Interactive has announced to start supporting the iPhone and iPod Touch from within their EdgeLib SDK. The Beta version is already available.

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Hands-On Unveils Developer network

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Though Hands-On had just sold it’s European mobile gaming business, it has now opened up the Beta version of their mobile developer network.

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DotEmu Releases Krypton Egg

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Described as the “best breakout game in the world” by French magazine PC Loisirs back in 1989, Krypton Egg will now see it’s release by developer DotEmu.

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