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Namco Interview Part 1

February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Our friends over at QB (great re-design of the site) have launched their newest podcast interview. This time, they took on Namco and discussed hot topics like the new N-Gage platform and the iPhone. Available for download here.

Codemasters to Partner with Glu

February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

It has been silent around Glu for some time since they started with their IPO, but today some good news was announced. Glu has inked down a deal to distribute and develop Codemasters Mobile games on their network. This deal comes at a good time now the IPO is entering its final stages and rumors about the expiration of their SEGA licenses go around the industry, making Codemasters one of their most important assets for the future.

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Jump Games Scoops up new Indy Licenses

February 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Mumbai based mobile games developer Jump Games has announced their latest licensing deal with Rajshri Media. The deal, based on a rev-share model, gives Jump Games the rights to produce one game for the movies called Maine Pyar Kiya, Bombay To Goa, Amar Akbar Anthony, Hum Apke Hain Kaun and Jewel Thief. Jump Games had a free choice of licenses in this deal and therefore chose the movies which are best suited for conversion to mobile.

3GSM: IbxGames Launched

February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This year at 3GSM there is a fresh mobile gaming company launching into this highly competitive market space. The company is called IbxGames and seems to fucuss on connected games mostly. The first games they will launch are Armored Forces, OGame Mobile and Wrooam.

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Mobile Joystick

February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The boys over at QB have found an interesting news bit about a new design for mobile phone joysticks. In the design, a user can basically pull out the joystick for a quick play. I wonder though how it will hold when putting a lot of stress while pushing the joystick for the ‘fire’ functionality. Also, I am still wondering when the boys of Commodore will launch their joystick for mobile, which they shown me at the E3 last year.

I-Play to launch Jewel Quest 2

February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »

iWin has released yet another casual mobile game over their successful relationship with I-Play. This time Jewel Quest receives an update. With the release of Jewel Quest 2, iWin hopes to improve over the 40 million downloads that Jewel Quest 1 received (over all platforms we estimate, looking at I-Plays stats at CGA last week). The release of Jewel Quest 2 was simultaneous over mobile, web and other platforms.

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Glu Launches Project Gotham Racing Mobile

February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Last Friday, Glu has globally launched the much anticipated Project Gotham Racing Mobile (also known as PGR). The PGR license started out on the Xbox and was sent out by Glu in time to get some nice quotes from review websites. Among them are IGN “One of the most anticipated games of 2007” and Pocket Gamer “The best mobile racer”.

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CGA: Exciting Data on the Euro & N. American Mobile Market

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Mark Donovan, SVP and Senior Analyst at M:Metrics held his speech about the mobile market and consumer behavior. Also he revealed that male consumers are still the biggest group unlike most other reports say. The speech was mostly a rainfall of data, so my apologies if it’s a bit unstructured below.

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CGA: Mobile is not Console

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Today we continue our reporting on Casuality-West this week in Amsterdam. I-Play’s CEO David Gosen has held an excellent speech in which he describes why mobile is THE gaming platform of the future.

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