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Magmic to Distribute Hudson on Blackberry

October 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Magmic Magmic has closed yet another new big deal to distribute mobile games onto the Blackberry. This time, the company signed up part of Hudson Soft’s portfolio.

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Apple Opens iPhone (a bit)

October 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple Finally the iPhone (and so, iPod Touch) will officially open up to more developers according to Steve Jobs yesterday.

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S60 Receives Touch Screen Support

October 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

S60 Not only Symbian OS has made some great progress on expanding Symbian functionality, but also Nokia, owner of the S60 Symbian platform announced advances as they now support touch screens.

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Symbian Polishes OS and Signing Procedures

October 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Symbianos Symbian has done some great updates that should aid developers in creating better mobile gaming experiences and also a smoother way to progress through the Symbian signing process.

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MotoDev Shortlist Announced

October 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

I-Play and Motorola have announced the shortlist of nominees for the MotoDev game developer challenge which will come to conclusion during the CTIA Moco Mixer Oktober 22nd.

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China’s Online Mobile Gaming Business Set to Explode

October 17th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

China According to a China Venture report, 16 million Chinese will be playing mobile games on their mobile phones by the end of the year. Mobile online gaming is set to increase with 320%.

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I-Play Cuts Costs

October 17th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Iplay Though rumours started coming in yesterday, today I-Play confirmed big changes in the company in order to cut costs toward Gamesindustry.biz.

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IMGA Shortlists Announced

October 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | 2 Comments »

Imga The International Mobile Game Awards have announced their shortlist for the upcoming awards show. The shortlist is generated based on the scores given to the mobile games from a series of online judges.

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EA Mobile Releases Need For Speed ProStreet

October 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Eamobile EA Mobile is taking Need for Speed out of the underground scene with the release of Need for Speed ProStreet Mobile, due for release end of this month.

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Motricity Acquires Infospace Mobile

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Infospace mobile is known for it’s rise in the market and at the same time for it’s fall. In just over a year, a once huge mobile publisher more or less broke apart. Now, Motricity acquired the remainder.