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Astraware Releases Westward

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Astraware and Sandlot Games invite you to experience the life of a Frontier settler in the wild, rough and tumble world of Westward for Palm OS and Windows Mobile smartphones and PDAs.

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Mobile Amusements Licenses Binary Finary

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Mobile Amusements has acquired a license on Binary Finary a couple of famous trance music producers. The first game coming will be Binary Finary

Gameleons Releases Pirates’ Den

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Gameleons The dice are rolling, the gold is tinkling and the grog is streaming down. Richness or six feet of mud, to hundred thousand barrels of rotten case-shots!

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Vivendi Does it Again; Zaoza Portal Launched

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Zaoza Vivendi once started the Vizzavi portal together with Vodafone. After the project dying off years ago, the company is now back with Zaoza, a subscription based mobile entertainment portal.

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Fly’s nPhone

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Fly Handset vendor Fly has released a mobile phone that supports all kind of old Nintendo games. It’s not the first time we see a phone with Nintendo support, but is does seem to be the most complete one on the market today.

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IndiaGames Signed up For Metaflow

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

MetaFlow, one of the biggest mobile game distribution tools the mobile games industry knows, has announced to have received IndiaGames as their latest client.

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Starting a Mobile Studio? Think About This!

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Finblade’s John Chasey and Fergus McNeil discussed the advantages and disadvantages of entering the mobile games industry with a new studio over at GDC Mobile yesterday.

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N-Gage Commercial Launch Nearing

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Ngage_2 With the First Access launch a few weeks under way, Nokia is starting to prepare the full launch of the new N-Gage 2.0 platform.

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Avoiding the Operator Deck in Japan

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

David Collier of Japanese content provider Pikkle explains how content companies in Japan manage to avoid the headaches caused by operator decks in Japan.

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Glu Extends Ice Ange License

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

Glu has signed a new multi-year licensing agreement with Fox Mobile Entertainment in order to lengthen their use of the Ice Age brand for mobile games.