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Carnival of the Mobilists #58
January 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
While I hear Madonna yelling "Time goes by, so slowely", I’m reading the 58th Carnival of the Mobilists at TomSoft which clearly shows things are moving fast in this little industry as the iPhone left a clear mark all over this week.
Codemasters heads toward the stock market
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Codemasters has announced plans to float onto the stock market. Even though 2005 showed a loss of more then $ 25 million, 2006 was profitable at $ 2.2 million while turnover hardly increased. Codemasters is or was one of the only big publishers in the UK to stay independent. In 2007, Codemasters hopes to have a turnover of $ 170 million with a 10% profit margin over all divisions including mobile games.
Qplaze Q1 line-up
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Qplaze has announced their Q1 ’07 line-up of mobile games last week. Qplaze will release Age of Heroes III, Space Miner, Stirlitz, Century of Pirates and Real Billiards 2007. Qplaze will also keep on pushing itself into the 3D realm by releasing 3D Real Billiards 2007, 3D Flower Towers (oh yes, it’s the girly version) and 3D Real Mahjongg.
Ozura releases Antopia and R.A.T.S.
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Ozura announced to release two new mobile action games. The first one that will arrive is Antopia, a game in which a brave little ant has to expand its colony as a loyal servant to the ant queen. Yes this sounds a lot like an animated movie from a few years back and the title screen will surely enlighten your memory. If you think ants are a bit to small, R.A.T.S. might suit you better. In this game, you lead a battaljon of rats and need to conquer the kitchen of heaven.
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IndiaGames expands distribution network
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
IndiaGames and BSNL, a local state owned operator, have signed an agreement to supply BSNL broadband consumers with a ‘mobile games on demand’ service. BSNL broadband currently services 5 million subs and hopes to ad another 4 million in Q1 ’07. The games on demand service will cost between RS 100 and RS 200 a month. Later, the operator expects to ad a pay per use strategy as well.
Vivendi’s Caesar best mobile strategy game
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Airgamer has announced Vivendi Mobile’s Caesar to be the best mobile strategy game of 2006. For the election, Airgamer used the voice of 2.600 readers. Caesar is an isometric strategy game. Currently there are not a whole lot of strategy games out there, but with companies like HandyGames and Gear Games working hard, the genre will expand a lot this year. Congratulations with the award Vivendi.
Kalador to distribute for Animatu
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Spanish mobile games developer Animatu has signed a global distribution agreement with Kalador Entertainment, based in Canada. The agreement includes most of Animatu’s portfolio. The deal was brought into the world by Kalador, but details have not been announced.
More problems for InfoSpace? (updated)
January 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
The guys over at MocoNews reported more bad luck for InfoSpace is underway. Even though this has not much to do with their mobile games studios, the most recent problems for them are within the mobile division again. This time, EMI seems to have started a lawsuit claiming to be underpaid for about $ 10 million. This includes damages for selling music products InfoSpace had no license on. If EMI would be proven right, this would be a serious problem for their mobile content services. The total claim from EMI toward InfoSpace is $ 100 million. With the departure of operators like Cingular and H3G Italy from their portfolio last year, it seems InfoSpace remains in rough weather.
Player X received $ 9.89 million funding
January 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Player X announced to have secured a $ 9.89 million funding from Nordic Venture partners, Long Acre Partners and Arts Alliance. Tony Pearce announced the funding will be used to reach the next stage of growth for the company. Player X recently expanded from a mobile game publisher to the mobile TV and Video arena.
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VibeTonz for Force Feedback
January 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »
Samsung is about to release the first of its VibeTonz ‘Touch Feedback’ supporting handsets called the SCH-W559. VibeTonz is a subwoofer like speaker which replaces the traditional motor which is used for making the device shakes. The advantage of this is the accuracy possible which can give mobile games a movie like sensation. Samsung has used the VibeTonz technology before in phones, but this is the first which gives access to it in all content areas.
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