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Digital Chocolate and EMI Canada join hands
December 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Digital Chocolate and EMI announced a deal to merge music and mobile gaming. Trough this deal, the consumer will see their favourite artists pop-up in DC’s mobile games. The first release will be Club K-os. This will be a rebranded version of DC’s award winning Nightclub Empire game.
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Herocraft releases SmileLines
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
HeroCraft went casual once again by releasing SmileLines into the World. The game is a typical puzzler with attractive graphics. For full details, please check out the press release below.
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OrangePixel releases RocketBoy 2
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
OrangePixel just released the second game in their Rocketboy series called “RocketBoy 2
Gameloft Connect, a new channel is born
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 2 Comments »
Another initiative to attract consumer loyalty has been launched by Gameloft last weekend under the name Gameloft Connect. The service acts as an iTunes for mobile games and of course we gave it a small test drive.
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German Developer Awards part 2
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
We reported before the big winner of the awards before, but now we also got hold of the prizes awarded by the public. The following prizes where awarded;
Best mobile action game
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Dynamo Games wins TIGA Award
December 18th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Our congratulations this Monday morning go out to Dynamo Games who have scooped up the TIGA award for mobile. They won with their Championship manager 2006 game which is published by Eidos Mobile. Last years edition also won at the TIGA awards.
MobileGamesDB.com; standardizing the mobile games market
December 15th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 2 Comments »
Redboss has clearly taken a good look at IMDB when they started building their MobileGamesDB. The website is still in beta, and still a work-in-progress, but their ideas about fragmentation in the industry are very clear. The Mobile Games Blog will closely track progress on this initiative and report back on it frequently as we feel this is one more step toward consumer acceptation of mobile games. For now, the call is onto all developers to start submitting information about their mobile games to fill the database. The website features an overview on how to create XML (mgXML) files with info about your games and how to submit it for inclusion. More information can be found on www.mobilegamesdb.com
Magyar Telekom also buys itself into content
December 15th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
After Swisskom’s purchase of Minick, the race seems on as Hungary’s largest operator Magyar Telekom buys 100% of MobilPress and 75% of Mfactory for a combined price of $ 5.4 million. When will the first mobile games developer be bought by an operator?
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