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Pangea Releases Billy Frontier on App Store

September 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Texas based developer Pangea Software has released Billy Frontier for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the release, another developer enters the competition to gain the hearts of iPhone consumers.

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Rayfusion Acquisition Official

September 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Connect2Media has now officially announced the acquisition of Israel based aggregator RayFusion, something we got tipped about just yesterday.

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Tira Wireless Shut Down on August 24th Already

September 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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We already posted about the rumours
that Tira Wireless was in big problems. Now, after a lot of digging
around and help from some friends, we got hold of internal
documentation that confirms it.

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I-Play Release JewelQuest II on App Store

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

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One of I-Play’s biggest casual mobile games has just received the App
Store treatment. As of now, the mobile game is available on iPhone and
iPod Touch.

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EA Extends Bejeweled License

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

The problem with licensing deals is… sometimes they run out. As so,
EA Mobile and PopCap Games have chosen to extend the contract due to
the huge success of the title.

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Sprimp Starts Zeemote Support

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

A small, not before mentioned on MGB, Frensh developer called Sprimp
announced to start developer mobile games which are Zeemote JS1 enabled.

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Connect2Media Acquired RayFusion? UPDATED

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This morning we received a fresh rumor about the possible acquisition
of Israeli based content aggregator Rayfusion by Connect2Media.

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PopCap Goes D2C

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

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PopCap Games has chosen to start selling mobile games on a D2C basis.
The company already had a lot of experience in this field with their
regular web games.

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Samsung to Open Symbian App Store

September 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Samsung
It seems to be App Store week at the blog. Previously, Google and Microsoft already gave knowledge of their plans to launch; now Samsung joins the party.

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Didmo Appoints Roberto Chaves as CEO

September 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

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Didmo, a company aiming at the ad-funded mobile games market, has hired a new CEO called Roberto Chaves to oversee the still fairly new company.