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Develop Finalists Announced

June 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Develop Develop Magazine is close to handing out it’s awards for 2008. This year, some mobile game developers managed to get shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious awards.

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Ubisoft Into iPhone Games

June 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Ubisoft For the first time since Gameloft and Ubisoft split on a business level, Ubisoft has made an announcement to go into mobile games. The company will only target the iPhone though.

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Gamevil Launched Net Mission event in Path of a Warrior

June 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Gamevil To celebrate the success of their mobile RPG game Path of a Warrior, Gamevil USA has now launched Net Mission. Net Mission ads a new world for players to enjoy.

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Fishlabs Releases Rally Master Pro

June 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

German developer Fishlabs has released yet another 3D mobile racing game. Rally Master Pro offers the player 27 brand new tracks to test their mean machines.

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Nokia Acquisition of Trolltech Approved

June 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The European commission has given Nokia the green light to acquire mobile Linux specialist Trolltech. With the Trolltech acquisition, Nokia seems to prepare itself to start the development of Linux based devices.

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Arvato Reorganisations

June 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Arvato Arvato has reorganized. The Bertelsmann group owned company always handled every type of content in a separate division. With the new Arvato Mobile, that will all be history.

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Greystripe Shows Success for Ad Funded Mobile Games

June 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Tomorrow, Greystripe will reveal a report which shows the success of free ad-funded mobile games. We already took a quick peek at the report and noticed a 10.1% average click-through amongst other details.

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Telcogames-MED Update

June 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 4 Comments »

It was clear many of you wanted answers after our last update on the (by now famous) Telcogames letter in regards to the acquisition by Mobile Entertainment Distribution Limited (MED).

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Don Ryan now Oberon’s COO

June 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Oberon Oberon Media’s Vice President of Publishing Don Ryan has been promoted to COO of the company. Don will oversee publishing, development and platform operations.

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Hands-On Announces Icy-Tower

June 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

Handson Hands-On has released Icy Tower. With over 10 million downloads, the original free web based casual game is already a big hit and Hands-On hopes to extend it’s popularity onto the mobile platform.