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Player X Nominated as 2007 Red Herring 100 Awards Finalist

April 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Playerx
Player X, known for their mobile games and video’s, has been selected
as finalist in the famous Red Herring 100 Awards which rewards top
performing private ventures in Europe.

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Amob March Chart

April 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Amob
The chart once known for its big amount of unbranded games in the top 10, slowly changes to one like many others as branded games take up 60% now. Yes, the Amob.com top 10 of March is listed below.

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Sony Pictures Mobile Europe Closes – Rectification

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Sonypictures
More hot news on this Friday afternoon as we just received the news about Sony Pictures Mobile closing it’s offices in Europe. It seems Sony Pictures Mobile had some problems to become profitable in Europe.

It seems there is some news afterall on job losses at Sony, however it didn’t concern Sony Pictures mobile, but Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE).

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I-Play to Distribute Polarbit (Native) Games

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Iplay
UK based publisher I-Play
has signed up a new deal to extend their
portfolio of mobile 3D games. After signing up Fishlabs a few months ago, this
time they signed with Polarbit who specializes in Brew, Symbian and
Windows Mobile native mobile gaming.

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GlobalFun Aqcuires Bryo

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Globalfun While many mobile game developers struggle to grow on the Italian market,
Global Fun has announced their acquisition of Milan based mobile
content distributor Bryo to strengthen their position in the Italian market even further.

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Youth Prefers Their Mobile Above CD’s, Chocolate and Cigarettes

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Theregister
According to recent research, The Register reports an estimated the
amounts spend by modern European youth on their phones throughout their
lives is $ 28.000 starting at the age of 8!

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Mobile Gaming and The Webby Awards

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Mobile Gaming is everywhere, also at the famous Webby’s as Greystripe‘s free mobile games portal
Gamejump has been nominated for the precious internet award.
They compete with Maxim Mobile, Premiere Mobile and Reuters.

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SkyZone Entertainment Releases Prey

April 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Skyzone
SkyZone Entertainment has extended their partnership with MachineWorks
Northwest to release yet another successful PC / Console game on the
mobile gaming platform. This time, Prey will be brought to Brew and
J2me phones.

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Vivendi Games Mobile Organizes MySpace Contest

April 17th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Vivendi
Vivendi Games Mobile has announced a contest on MySpace that will let
the players earn a role as character in one of their newest student
related mobile game called Surviving high School ’07.

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Edgelib Reaches 3.0 Status

April 17th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Elementsinteractive
Elements Interactive has unleashed version 3.0 of their EdgeLib
development suite for mobile game developers that target Symbian and
Windows Mobile.