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I-Play Doubles Internal Development Capacity

June 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Iplay MobileIndustry reports that I-Play will get a growth boost from their acquisition by Oberon Media last week to enhance their position in the mobile games market.

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Gameloft wins Global Mobile Content Awards

May 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Gameloft has won yet another big prize as they scooped up one of the Global Mobile Content Awards in Korea.

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I-Play: We are profitable, we will be number one!

May 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

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MobileIndustry has put online an interesting interview with I-Play‘s
Leighton Webb yesterday in which the future of the recently acquired
I-Play Is drafted out a bit.

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Oberon Acquires I-Play

May 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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Oberon has just completed their second acquisition in the mobile
games space as they bought mobile gaming publisher I-Play to extend
their mobile reach.

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MobileRated out-downloads Orange 3:1!?

May 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

The Mobile Ubiquity blog has released the news that MobileRated out-downloads Orange UK three times. Time to look deeper at this news!

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Cocoasoft Releases Liferush

May 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

The Slovanian developer Cocoasoft has released a new game called Liferush which is all about working toward ~~burnouts~~ earning money and getting your five minutes of fame.

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Company Spotlight: Greatelsoft

May 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 3 Comments »

Today, after a long time, we are starting up our company spotlights again and the honors of the first spotlight in 2007 go to Chinese mobile games developer Greatelsoft where we look at their company and local market with their CEO Gavin Chen.

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PopCap Releases Chuzzle

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

Popcapgames PopCap has reasons to celebrate as they released their first internally developed mobile game called Chuzzle to the public.

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iPod Mobile Games Hacked

May 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 1 Comment »

Apple For all those that are waiting to explore development of iPod games but don’t get a license, there is a chance as some guys managed to open up the black box.

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Third Screen Media Delivers Ads To Hovr

May 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »

Hovr Third Screen Media today has announced a deal to bring their advertisements to the mobile gaming community through the help of ad-funded mobile gaming firm Hovr.