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TelcoGames Goes Out of Business

April 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

TelcoGames, the worlds best known aggregator of mobile games, seems to be as good as out of business as various sources reported to us today.

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Mobliss Releases BK City in the US

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

Mobliss Mobliss and Burger King have released a new mobile game called BK City. The game is a combination of twelve mini-games that keep challenging the mobile gamer.

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N-Gage & Gameloft Promotions

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

Ngage_2 It seems not only EA is involved in promoting the N-Gage service. Gameloft is actually giving away games and mobile phones to consumers that actively use the service.

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Gameloft Licenses Hulk Hogan

April 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hulk Hogan, probably the most famous (and by now maybe even the oldest) TV wrestler has singed up for a licensing deal with Gameloft.

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FIFA 08 To Power N-Gage Promotion

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

Ngage N-Gage has started their European promotion by giving away free copies of EA Mobile’s FIFA 2008 mobile game to new users.

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Mobile Amusements Releases Binary Finary Chart Quest

April 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Mobileamusements It’s been a decade since their European success with the track 1998. Now it seems Binary Finary is back. This time, Matt and Stu will guide the player to rock the dancefloors in Binary Finary Chart Quest.

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123Play.com Goes Beta

April 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

123_play The world of ad-funded mobile gaming has yet another player as 123play.com goes beta for UK consumers.

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Ankama Announces DofusPocket

April 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

Ankama Ankama has announced DofusPocket, a mobile game based on their Dofus game series and developed by subsidiary company Kalmeo.

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RabbitFactory Turns 2.0

April 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Bitrabbit’s game development middleware RabbitFactory has reached the 2.0 status, and so adds some fresh functionality.

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Wilcom Sets Vista as Mobile Gaming Platform!?

April 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Sharp Wilcom has developed a new smartphone which is running on Windows Vista. Though the initial release is planned only for Japan, Sharp might be taking it abroad.