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Playoo Goes Beta

January 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 1 Comment »

Playyoo
After a lot of news from Playoo, a YouTube like service for mobile
games, the website finally announced to go Beta today after 4 months of
testing.

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The Global Mobile Games Industry, 10 Years On

January 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

After three years of research, The Multimedia Research Company (TMRC)
has completed their second expanded review of the global mobile games
industry.

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Juniper: Mobile Entertainment Market to Threefold to $64bn

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Juniperresearch
Juniper Research announced their expectations of the mobile
entertainment service market to increase threefold to $ 64 billion by
2012.

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Jump Games Licenses Manchester United

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Indian developer and publisher Jump Games has announced to have
successfully licensed Manchester United for new mobile football (or
soccer for the US) games.

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Motion Welder Launches

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 2 Comments »

Indie mobile game developers and artists or small groups of mobile game
developers are asked to check out the free motion welder tool.

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Namco Releases Pole Position Remix for iPod

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Namco
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pole Position, Namco Networks now
announced the release of Pole Position Remix for Apple’s iPod.

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Glu to Acquire Superscape

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu
Glu has announced yet another acquisition in order to strengthen their
position on the mobile games market and to satisfy shareholders.

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Exit Games Signs Multi-Year Deal with Metismo

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Exitgames
Exit Games’ Neutron mobile multiplayer / connected gaming platform
seems to keep gaining market share as today they announced a multi-year
deal with Metismo.

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Optimum Outsourcing Mobile Game Design Competition

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Optimum Outsourcing has announced to start a mobile game design competition to identify fresh talent in the industry.

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Tira Wireless Supports Android

January 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Supporting Google’s Android seems to get more and more important as now
also Tira Wireless announced to support Google Android on their Jump
platform.

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