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EA Mobile Wishes for Wap Billing

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

According to an editorial at Mobile Entertainment Magazine, EA Mobile wishes to have better tools for servicing their consumers. The primary object that needs improvement according to EA is billing. Premium SMS is outdated which means it is time to have WAP Billing everywhere.

The Australian Mobile Development Landscape

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

At Builder.AU we found a story about the development landscape in mobile technologies within Australia. With over 50 developers active in that area, many things are happening there, especially within mobile games.

EA’s Ubisoft Dilemma

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The guys over at Gamasutra have published an excellent editorial about what might or might not happen between EA and Ubisoft and the impact it might also have on EA Mobile and Gameloft in such a case. The editorial is closed with some financial data about Vivendi, but lacking any real info about Vivendi Mobile’s achievements.

Celador Bought by 2WayTraffic

February 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

According to AFX UK, Celador, the company that is responsible for one of the biggest licenses in mobile today called “Who Wants to be a Millionaire“, has been acquired by the Dutch company 2WayTraffic NV for 106 Million Stg. Quickly after the deal was signed, 2WayTraffic announced 4 new deals to expand the license even more on a global level. With all the new deals to further capitalize the format we wonder if their mobile strategy might change as well?

The Nintendo Phone

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | 1 Comment »

Digital World Tokyo reports about a patent granted last year to Nintendo. The patent was registered for a mobile phone with gaming abilities. The phone would feature a full keypad and the same buttons as found on all GameBoy’s. The patent was filed back in 2001, so the chance of something like Mario showing up on a dedicated device anywhere soon is pretty slim.

Vivendi 2007 H1 Line-up

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Vivendi Mobile has announced their official 2007 H1 line-up today. We will see all-time hero Crash return in Crash bandicoot party. After that we will see M.A.C.H. Air Combat, The Incredible Machine, Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail, Shock Blocks and finally Office Wars.

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CGA: I-Play and Slingo Dive into in Multi-Title Partnership

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

At CGA today, I-Play announced to have signed a multi-title partnership with Slingo. Amongst the titles is Slingo Quest which has been nominated for this years Zeebys. Slingo’s reach in casual gaming has been huge with one out of every twenty people in the US that has visited the site at least once. I-Play and Slingo will also release classics like Slots and Bingo.

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CGA: Oberon Media about Marketing Mobile vs. Casual

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

At the marketing ABC, we asked Tony Leamer from Oberon about the main difference in marketing casual games and mobile games. We posed this question as Oberon Media has a strong web background and is expected to keep developing mobile games themselves since they acquired Blaze some time ago.

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CGA: I-Play and iWin to Broaden Collaboration?

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Here at Casuality-West today, we had a short chat with the guys over at iWin about their collaboration with I-Play. In the past few years, I-Play has released several successful games for iWin into the mobile games arena. iWin is very positive and expects to make available more licenses to I-Play along the time. At the same time, when we asked iWin how they felt about I-Play’s original IP like Skipping Stone, they told us to be interested in bringing such titles to the world of casual gaming, but clearly never really gave it a thought before. There you go David, this one is on us!

CGA: Marketing ABC Part 3

February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

The last part of the Marketing ABC was lead by Stephane Adamiak who works at the Games Business unit of France Telecom called GOA. He explains the value of communities for the casual games industry and the trials with orange to bring it to mobile.

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