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EA Mobile’s Q1 2007 Financial Results

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Eamobile
EA’s mobile games division has been performing well in the group and
has now brought in 5.9 percent of the total group’s first quarter
revenues.

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Mia Launches New Virgin Mobile Games Portal

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Mia
Mia has recently launched their “vibe” mobile games channel to provide
Virgin Mobile gamers with the latest standard and premium mobile j2me
and online games.

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THQ Wireless Acquires Universomo

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Thqwireless
THQ Wireless has announced the acquisition of the finish mobile games
developer Universomo after changing their mobile games strategy a few
times over the past few years.

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Living Mobile Releases Honeycomb Beat

May 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Livingmobile Having seen the light only recently on Nintendo’s DS, Honeycomb Beat

Players X Signs Fishlabs 3D Exclusively

May 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Playerx
Fishlabs 3D has signed an exclusive deal with Player X for distributing
the Fishlabs 3D mobile games across Europe, Asia and South America.

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JavaFX, The Future of J2me?

May 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Sun
Sun Microsystems has announced on Cnet to release a new Java version that will make it more easy to write games and applications for (mobile) consumer devices. The new breed has been labeled JavaFX.

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World of Warcraft to go Mobile!? – UPDATED

May 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

While browsing the internet, the guys from QJ.net found an interesting job post over at
Blizzard‘s website. It explains their need for mobile experienced staff.

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Ozura Releases The Lake Monster

May 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

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In Lake Monster, the second mobile game Ozura released today, lies a monster of unimaginable horror and insatiable hunger in the deep waters of Lake Chini. Rumor has it that many deaths over the decades are linked to the beast dwelling deep down under.

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Ozura Releases Zombie Zapster

May 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Ozura
Zombie Zapster, an interactive puzzle based mobile game from Ozura, is about a peaceful village of Waka-Waka in Haiti which is overrun by zombies. Most villagers have turned into the living dead and the bad spell has to be undone as soon as possible before it’s too late.

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Morten Hjerde’s Critical Look at the Mobile Games Industry

May 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Ememess
While browsing around on Google, I found this intersting post which holds the vision of Morten Hjerde on the mobile games industry and explains why he stopped working in it.