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Hands-On Releases Pro Bowling 2

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Handson_2 Following the success of their first Pro Bowling title, Hands-On now celebrates the release of the second mobile bowling game called Pro Bowling 2.

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Konami Releases Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Konami Konami has finally launched their much beloved soccer game Pro Evolution Soccer. The mobile game will be distributed by Glu which has made a first ever “Hero Game” deal with Vodafone UK.

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Qplaze Releases Playboy Slot Machine

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Qplaze Qplaze announced the release of their newest mobile game, Playboy slot machine which is the newest addition to the Playboy VIP casino.

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Namco Releases Popeye

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Namco Popeye is hitting mobile for the first time according to Namco Networks, the second time according to The Mobile Games Blog.

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Free Porting with The Porting Lab

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Theportinglab The Porting Lab has set up a free service that helps smaller developers in porting their mobile games to a variety of handsets. Of course, the free service is limited.

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Taito Releases Jungle Hunt

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Taito Taito has released yet another new 1982 arcade game classic called Jungle Hunt for consumers on the US Sprint network.

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Hands-On Mobile Management Shake-up

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Handson Hands-On seems to continue changing as this time, the company chose to shuffle a bit part of the executive management, meaning new faces and old ones at other places.

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Sprint Launches Sprint Arcade

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Sprint Though subscription based mobile gaming never really took off for i-mode, Sprint has now started the first US subscription based mobile gaming channel.

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Jamster and Inneractive go Ad-Funded

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Jamba Jamba / Jamster will start up a new in-game advertising service in the UK and the US with the help of Inneractive Smart Media.

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Sun; J2me to JavaSE in 10 Years

October 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Sun James Gosling, VP of Sun, announced that the company is focussing to abandon the J2me standard in the coming years in order to exchange it for an overall Java SE environment.