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Mobile Gamers Play, Not Download

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

In the most recent mobile games report from M:Metrics, the company shows that mobile gaming is gaming popularity, but most mobile gamers aren’t buying into the scene.

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Smartphones Ideal for Mobile Gaming

February 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Magmic Magmic Games carried out a survey with clients in their network about mobile gaming quality. 90% of the consumers said that smartphones offer a better experience than other models.

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Nokia: Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play

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

Ngage Nokia’s executive vice president of markets, Anssi Vanjoki, kicked off the second and last day of GDC Mobile with his speech about Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play.

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IGF Awards Winners Announced

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

Igf One week after the winners of the competing IMG Awards, IGF has honoured their prize winners last night over at GDC Mobile in San Francisco.

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Second Life Heading to Mobile

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

Vollee The virtual world of second life will finally join the mobile world as Vollee is porting the virtual world to the mobile platform.

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Play Jedi With SonyEricsson

February 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Smoco Smoco has launched Saber ME, a followup on their range of light saber simulators. Though this is more like an application than a mobile game, we still like to mention this funny product.

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Carl Freer: Gizmondo Arrives Late 2008

February 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | 1 Comment »

Following our previous coverage, more news surrounding the Gizmondo return is surfacing in another interview from Hans Sandberg.

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PopCap Games Goes Multiplayer with SNAP

February 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | 1 Comment »

Popcapgames Nokia and PopCap games signed a multi-title agreement in which a number of mobile games will feature multiplayer support over Nokia’s SNAP network. The first title to launch is Chuzzle.

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ZeeMote Developer Program and SDK Launch

February 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Zeemote While the ZeeMote was officially launched last week at the Mobile World Congress, Today at the Game Developer Congress, ZeeMote released the Developer Program and SDK for the device.