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CGA: Marketing ABC Part 2
February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »
The second part of the marketing ABC was led by Dennis Ryan, EVP Business Development at Popcap games. In this part, Dennis mostly talked about building a brand from original IP.
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CGA: Marketing ABC Part 1
February 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »
Today, the Mobile Games and Gaming Blog attended Casuality-West on request of the wonderful people over at the Casual Games Association. Due to some train delays, we missed out the first bit, but hope to leave you with a good impression of this event today that has a lot of connections to the mobile games industry.
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Improved Restrictions for Mobile Adult Games and Content
February 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Adult Games | No Comments »
A group of 23 operators have agreed to improve safety for kids along their networks. Besides shielding kids from all forms of possible abuse by other clients, operators will also shield children from adult themes content like adult mobile games. Amongst the group are Vodafone, Orange and TIM. We have seen a similar move where adult games got tugged away behind a pin code that clients need to request. Personally, I always think it should be not more difficult then using information an operator already has. Here in Holland for example, only an adult can buy a subscription. Also, most pre-paid mobile phones are personally registered, which means age of the owner is known. It all sounds so easy… and how to avoid viral distribution of such content via BlueTooth?
Open Discussion: From Console to Mobile, Will it Fit?
February 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Open Discussions | 4 Comments »
It seems a never ending story is starting at MobileIndustry.biz. It all started out when Tony Pearce (Player X) announced consumer disappointment when console games are ported to mobile. According to Tony, mobile is just not there yet and the ports might harm the original console ports. It didn’t take long until THQ’s James Scalpello stood up to let us know it is not that bad at all. Now, Tim Harris form Seven Lights tells everybody console games indeed are not the right fit for porting to mobile. Personally, I think his example of Splinter Cell’s arrival on mobile is not totally right as I loved that mobile game a few years ago (even though I finished it pretty fast) as Splinter Cell is not a direct port form a console game to a mobile game. Instead it is just a totally new game, purely based on the license and storyline of its big brother. However, I like to make a call for a new open discussion at the blog. From console, to mobile, do you think it is the right fit!?
Real Business ’50 To Watch’ Mobile Gaming List
February 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Real Business has released their latest top 50 of mobile companies to watch list. Limited as our vision is, below we have only summed up the mobile gaming companies that are listed.
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Indian Mobile Content Market to Boom
February 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
More and more Indian people start dropping trading in their iPods as listening music on mobile phones gains much interest. The interest is not only triggered by the increasing memory and dropping prices, but also for mobile gaming according to The Economic Times. For 2007, the mobile content market is set to grow a whopping 45%. In 2006, the Indian VAS market in which the main drivers are identified as mobile music and mobile games, was valued at about $ 500 million and is expected to grow to $ 10 billion by 2009 according to US based research firm Zinnov.
Jump Games Does Fido Dido
February 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »
Fido Dido is known across the globe for its appearance in TV commercials for many years. In 2007, he will make the jump to mobile together with the Indy based developer Jump Games. Joanna Ferrone, creator of Fido Dido thinks the step to mobile games is a natural progression for the character.
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3GSM: Conference Buddy
February 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | 1 Comment »
At Wireless World Forum, Omega Mobile has released a must have flash application for attendees to 3GSM. The application helps not only to stay in touch with your fellow WWF’ers, but also helps you to navigate around the event. Device support is a bit limited, but the application is an excellent example of the power of flash lite for application writing. Download it here.
3GSM: Neonode to Release its own iPhone?
February 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »
Neonode, much hyped for their button less mobile phone back in 2005, will reveal a brand new mobile phone at 3GSM in the hope to win market over Apple. Neonode has tried to get into the market since 2001, but hasn’t been successful in deploying their devices. We are looking forward to see how open their device will be, though we will not be present at the show ourselves this year.
Player X and Sennari Team Up
February 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »
To expand the consumer experience of their TV show licensed mobile games, Player X has partnered with Sennari. The two together will enable Player X’s mobile games with Sennari’s PrizePlay system. By enabling the mobile games for PrizePlay, consumers will be able to bet with tokens on their in-game achievements. The tokens they win with that can be redeemed by purchasing goods or even exchange them for cash. Every game will have a starter set of these tokens. When a consumer runs out of tokens, he or she can purchase new ones. The first game to receive a PrizePlay treatment will be Family Fortunes which is ranking well within the UK ELSPA charts.
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