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Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

April 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Nokia It seems that after IMGA and IGF, yet another innovation award can be added to the list of many creative talents in the industry. Nokia has announced the start of the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge.

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Industry Quality Report 2008 Q1

April 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The team from MobileGamesDB has worked hard for providing us their first real quarterly quality report for the mobile games industry. This quarter, Fishlabs is the big winner.

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Financials: THQ Wireless FY 2007

April 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Thqwireless We gathered the financial results of THQ Wireless for the full year of 2007 (year ended march 31st of 2008). Mobile results are down year-on-year.

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Geetha Arts Goes Retail for Jalsa game

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Geethaarts Hollywood and Bollywood have always been doing more or less the same when it comes to movies. For the first time in Bollywood history, a mobile game is going retail in order to skip operator charges.

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Ojom Releases Charlie’s Angels: Hellfire

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Ojom Ojom has released a new mobile game based the movie Charlie’s Angels from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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SCI Back in Merger Talks?

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Eidosinteractive Recently, shares of SCI/Eidos have increased in value again. After a lot of reorganisations, rumours now say there might be takeover news soon.

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Micazook Releases I-Citizen 3D

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | 2 Comments »

After three years of development, Micazook is taking the world of 3D avatars mobile with their release of I-Citizen 3D.

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Quake 3 Arena Lands on iPod Touch

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Apple Hackers have accomplished to port Quake 3 Arena to the iPod Touch and so potentially also for Apple’s iPhone.

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M:Metrics: iPhone Hype Continues

April 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Mmetrics According to fresh M:Metrics research, the iPhone hype is still standing strong. With 85% of the owners using the device for browsing the internet, it’s an interesting consumer base.