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EA Mobile Releases The Sims 2 Pets

April 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Eamobile
After selling 85 million console, PC and mobile games in the “The Sims”
series, EA Mobile has announced the release of “The Sims 2 Pets” for the
mobile phone. With this latest installment of the virtual franchise, EA
opens the attack on all the other pet focused games in the mobile
gaming space.

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Artificial Life 2006 Financial Results

April 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Artificiallife
The Hong Kong based mobile games developer Artificial Life announced
their first financial results over 2006. 2006 has been a good year for
the company as they saw their revenues grow from $ 266,757 at the end
of 2005 to $ 856,334 at the end of 2006.

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Hands-On Releases Guitar Hero

April 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Handson
Hands-On has entered in yet another licensing deal with Activision.
This time, they picked out Guitar Hero for adoption to the mobile
gaming world. With the game being highly successful on the consoles it
is guaranteed to sell, but with the hardware involved in the console
games it will be a tough job to entertain the console public.

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Vivendi Releases MACH

April 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Vivendi
The guys over at Vivendi must have had a real bright moment when they
thought about combining two great categories in mobile gaming; Racing
and Areal Combat. Those elements form the foundation of their newest
mobile game called MACH.

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Kiloo and Commodore Gaming Announce Triad

April 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Kiloo and Commodore Gaming are exploring their cooperation even more as
they release the next in the series of Commodore classics for mobile
called Triad. As with their last Commodore title, Kiloo did what it
could to preserve the retro gaming feeling.

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Ozura Enters the U.S. Trough Zingy

April 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Ozura
Singapore based developer Ozura has announced a distribution agreement
with Zingy Inc. to enter and expand its business in North-America and
some other Zingy owned channels throughout the world.

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HandsOn Extends Their World Poker Tour

April 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

HandsOn announced to have extended their partnership with World Poker
Tour for their mobile poker gaming series. The license is extended in a
multi-year agreement which proves the success of HandsOn’s poker games.

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TelcoGames Fastest Growing UK Mobile Company, I-Play Second

April 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Sometimes it seems like there is no stop to the expansion of mobile
games aggregator TelcoGames. After a number of acquisitions and rapid
expansion of their distribution network, they are now also announced as
the fastest growing UK mobile company.

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Capcom Secures Exclusive Wap Gaming Deal

April 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

Capcom
Capcom‘s acquisition of Cosmic Infinity pays off even more then many
expected as they signed a deal with Virgin Mobile U.S. as sole
aggregator of Wap based mobile games. This gives Capcom the space to
deliver titles like "Who Wants To be A Millionaire" to all Virgin Mobile
U.S. subscribers.

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Glu Shares Going South

March 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu
It has been some time since Glu (GLUU) went on Nasdaq and surprised us with the money they collected. The first trading day, the value of the shares increased even more. Today however, we noticed a steady decrease in share value for Glu.