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Capcom Announces Devil May Cry

December 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | 1 Comment »

Capcom Capcom announced the release of the Devil May Cry mobile adventure game to be scheduled for February 2008. The game will be based on Devil May Cry 3 for the Playstation 2.

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Vivendi to Acquire Activision

December 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Vivendi Vivendi has plans to take over Activision. The new company that would be called Activision Blizzard would be the new global market leader in gaming.

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Hudson Slims Down Q&A and Porting Dept.

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Hudson Right before the holiday season, Hudson has chosen to sack a big part of it’s Q&A and porting team in order to bring down costs of mobile game development.

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Timelapse Mobile Releases Righteous 90’s Challenge

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Timelapsemobile Timelapse Mobile has released yet another oldies mobile game as they released the Righteous 90’s Challenge, a follow-up to their successful Bodacious 80’s Challenge.

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Cellufun Releases The Mobile Ring

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Yet another “beat up the politician” mobile game has been released. This time it’s not Glu, but Cellufun that takes on the fight with the upcoming presidential candidates.

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I-Play Releases Negreanu Poker Pro

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Iplay_2 With every big and small publisher having a mobile poker game out there, I-Play of course couldn’t stay behind and as so, they now also released a mobile poker game called Negreanu Poker Pro.

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LEGO, from Hands-On to EA Mobile

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

LEGO, the biggest licensing deal for mobile games from Kiloo was for a long time distributed by Hands-On. Now, things seem to have changed as EA Mobile has taken over the distribution rights.

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Astraware Announces Symbian UIQ Support

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Astraware has announced to start a broad support for mobile phones based on Symbian’s UIQ platform. Astraware will launch a selection of mobile games early 2008.

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EA: Mobile Outsells Playstation 3

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Eamobile UK website Pocket Gamer went deep into EA’s latest financial figures and found out some interesting details. The most interesting off all, would be the fact that Mobile outperforms Playstation 3 revenues.

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Player X Opens Australian Office

November 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Playerx Player X has once again expanded it’s reach as they announced the opening of a new office. This time, Player X has selected Sydney, Australia.