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Etch a Sketch, From InFusio to Player X

November 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

It’s time for another brand to switch ownership as Player X announced that it will release a mobile game of Etch a Sketch, a license that was previously owned by the French developer and publisher InFusio.

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Baby-Soft Releases Mad Cow Martha 2: Free as a Bird

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Baby-Soft, a relative new and small player on the mobile games market, has released the second installment in their Mad Cow Martha series called Mad Cow Martha 2: Free as a Bird.

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Glu Releases Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Glu Call of Duty Mobile, Activision’s range of war games that once started in the hands of HandsOn, is now celebrating it’s fourth installment called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

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Magmic to Distribute Vivendi Games Mobile

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Magmic Magmic keeps pushing their Blackberry and Windows Mobile strategy as they now signed up another big publisher. This time, Vivendi Games Mobile will make available several mobile games to Magmic’s Bplay and partners.

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Jamba Pushes iPhone Safari Content

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Jamba_2 With the iPhone being released in the UK today, Jamba is set to target all the new iPhone consumers with a set of specially designed mobile content and mobile games from Capcom and MyNuMo.

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Harmonix Releases Phase

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Harmonix released a new mobile game for the iPod called Phase, a follow up to earlier produced mobile games like Amplitude and Frequency.

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E-Mail Problems Fixed

November 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »

Signalmedia Yesterday morning we found out that several people had serious problems to send us emails the past days. This was due to a small DNS error at our email host. You can now reach us again without problems at news@mobilegamesblog.com.

Elite Systems & Midway Extend Paperboy License

November 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Since the start, Elite Systems made a killer deal by licensing the arcade classic Paperboy from Midway. Now, the license has been extended to 2010 and Elite Systems is preparing for Paperboy’s 25th anniversary.

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Telcogames Closes Fathammer and Magic Studios, to Receive Funding

November 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

It’s been a long time since we spoke about Telcogames and the last updates where pretty much about distribution deals and acquisitions. Today however we have a fresh rumor that isn’t really a rumor at all.

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THQ Wireless Releases WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008

November 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Thqwireless THQ Wireless takes on the fight yet again as the publisher releases WWE Smackdown vs. Raw, perhaps the longest running series of mobile wrestling games.