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Hands-On Licenses BMW

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hands-On has licensed the big German BMW brand to utilize it’s cars and tracks in the upcoming release of their new mobile racing game called BMW Racing.

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Zeemote On the Road

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | 1 Comment »

Zeemote Last week, during the Nordic Game 2008 expo, I decided to take my Zeemote on the trip in order to find out how it reacts to ‘travel conditions’ and what people think about the device.

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Handango to Distribute Capcom Games to North America

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Capcom Handango has inked a new distribution seal with Capcom. Through the distribution deal, Handango will deliver Capcom games for blackberry and Windows Mobile devices in North America.

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123Play Leaves Beta Stage

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

123_play After being open to beta users for about two months, 123Play.com finally opened it’s portfolio of ad-funded free mobile games to the big public today.

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Metal Gear Coming to N-Gage

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Konami It seems that outside the USA, N-Gage consumers will now be the first to get their hands on the latest Metal Gear Solid mobile game which will be released by Konami very soon.

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Big Fish Games Promotes Laurent de Segur

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Bigfishgames Big Fish Games has announced that Laurent de Segur has now been promoted from Vice President of Technology to CEO of the casual games company.

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Telcogames Management Starts Mobile Entertainment Distribution Limited

May 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 7 Comments »

Though in our previous stories, we mentioned that there was a chance of a management buyout for Telcogames, PocketGamer revealed that the management has already started up a brand new company a few days before Telcogames went into administration.

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About (Free) Brands in Mobile Gaming

May 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

Last November, Jan Rezab was here with us. During his visit we talked about a lot of things and specially brand tactics. An interesting subject which we will work out below.

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Gamevil Releases Golf Superstars 2008

May 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Gamevil A new casual mobile golf game enters the market. Following the success of titles like Tiger Woods PGA Golf, Gamevil USA now launched Golf Superstars 2008.

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Concrete Licenses PBA

May 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Concrete Software has inked a brand licensing deal with the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). The first PBA game should launch in June during the PBA Team Shootout event in Six Flags.