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GlobalFun Releases Pico Pix Winter Edition

October 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Runestone Games and GlobalFun celebrate the release of Pico Pix Winter Edition, a revamped version of the popular original puzzle game from Runestone Games.

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Gameloft Releases Heroes: The Mobile Game

October 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Gameloft finally released the long anticipated Heroes Mobile Game and to prove the communication strength with the studio, it even includes a sneak peak into the shows’ second season.

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Online Casual Gamers Twice As Likely To Play Mobile Games

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 2 Comments »

Iplay I-Play held a survey amongst casual gamers and noticed that a massive 45% of them are happy to play their favourite casual games on their mobile phone, making the I-Play acquisition by Oberon Media even better from a strategic point of view.

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Ojom Releases Manager Pro Football 2008

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Ojom After the success of the 2006 edition, Ojom has decided to create a new edition of it’s mobile football management game called Manager Pro Football 2008.

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Gameloft Q3 Financial Results

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Gameloft has released it’s third quarter financial results showing a 51% growth in sales over the first 9 months of 2007, standing at

Vindigo closes RealNetworks Distribution Deal

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Vindigo Vindigo, the company formally known as Zingy, has struck a deal in order to distribute a selection of mobile games from Real Networks to operators in North and South America.

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Herocraft Releases Bravian Lands and Sun Valley

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Herocraft has published two new mobile games. Bravian Lands from developer VisualMedia Mobile and Sun Valley from developer Mobila-Games.ru.

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Eidos Announces Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

Eidos Eidos New Media has announced the release of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary for mobile gamers. The game will be a compilation of the famous trilogy.

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The Korean Microtransaction Market

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »

Gamevil Microtransactions are picking up really well in mobile gaming Mecca Korea as one third of the mobile games released on operator SK Telekom are enabled for in-game purchasing of content.

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Vollee to Stream Mobile Games

October 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Vollee Backed by Activision, Codemasters and Encore Software, Vollee released their Vollee 1.0 platform which allows streaming high end mobile games to 3G enabled mobile phones.