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Sina Launches Nokia’s Snap Mobile

August 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nokia Sina, one of China’s leading companies when it comes to online communities, announced to have enabled it’s consumers to use Nokia’s SNAP Mobile platform for mobile gaming.

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Will EA buy Fishlabs? (updated)

August 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Fishlabs Will the gossiping in the industry ever stop? We don’t hope it! Another hot rumour came to us from various sides as it seems there is more M&A news coming from EA Mobile.

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HandyGames Tops GameJump Charts

August 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Handygames With 14 million mobile games downloaded, Greystripe’s GameJump.com shows the importance of free (ad funded) mobile games for consumers. With Konami joining up, you’d expect branded games to top the download charts…

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Konami’s Glu Lineup

August 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

Konami Konami has announced more details of the new titles that will be distributed through Glu. Key titles include Pro Evolution Soccer which fills the soccer gap in the Glu mobile game offering.

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Selatra Does Vimpelcom

August 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

Selatra Selatra has signed a deal with Vimpelcom in order to make available their catalogue of mobile games in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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GameJump Served 14 Million Free Mobile Games

August 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »

Greystripe keeps hitting big numbers when it comes to their GameJump.com website. Today, they announced to have distributed 14 million free mobile games to gamers world wide.

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Sony Ericsson Opens Online J2me Testing

August 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Sonyericsson Developers can now get their devices tested on pre-commercial devices even faster then before as Sony Ericsson and Mobile Complete team up to support the Sony Ericsson Developer World.

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Nokia’s SNAP Mobile to Launch in Germany

August 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | 2 Comments »

Nokia At the GC Developers Conference, Nokia has announced the availability of the SNAP platform for German Consumers. The platform will launch in the fall of 2007.

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Hands-On Licenses Crystal Quest

August 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hands-On has announced a deal with AT New Media on behalf of Patrick Buckland in order to license Patrick’s 1987 smash hit Crystal Quest for release on mobile phones.

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Amob July Chart

August 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Amob Amob‘s July chart for the ten best selling mobile games in their Asian channels has been published. This month, Harry Potter seems to take the lead, while the Sims and TMNT more or less hold their position.