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Global mobile gaming habits
November 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 2 Comments »
Nokia today released their study to reveal mobile gaming habits World wide. They interviewed in total 1800 persons world-wide for an hour to discover the facts about the potential of try before you buy, connected / multiplayer games and other topics. The interview discloses a lot of interesting views on mobile gaming. A good example is the session time which is a lot longer then the 5 minutes we all expected. Please read the full research below
Gameloft signed up for Reggie Bush
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »
Gameloft today announced it has inked down a deal to use New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush for their forthcoming American Football game. The game’s full title will now be Reggie Bush Pro Football 2007.
Company Spotlight #6: Gear Games
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 2 Comments »
For today’s company spotlight, we met up with Russia based mobile games developer Gear Games. We spoke with Artyom Shumsky, CEO at Gear Games about how they expect to conquer the market with their RTS games as main weapon.
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MobileRated’s handset top 10
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »
MobileRated released it’s top ten downloading handsets, showing the cheapest gamers are owners of the blackberry 8100.
01 – Blackberry 8100 | RIM
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Asia-Pacific market set to double by 2010
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
VNUnet has put an article online in which Analyst and research firm In-Stat has announced the Asia-Pacific’s turnover on mobile games will be twice the size it is today by 2010. However they also warn about revenues that might not rise as fast. Main issues for this are piracy and fragmentation in the revenue schemes used.
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Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti’s holiday give-away
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »
Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti have teamed up for the holidays and announced to give away 7 different mobile games to clickgamer customers and visitors. Clickgamer hopes to boost sales for the holiday period and attract new customers.
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Carnival of the Mobilists #54
November 23rd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
It’s that time again, and this time it’s at Golden Swamp. Yes, it’s time for the Carnival of the mobilists number 54!
iPhone commercial
November 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
So, will it be called the Apple iTalk!?
Oberon Media acquires Blaze
November 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Rumors around Blaze have been hanging in the air for a few months, but now it’s final. Blaze has been bought by Oberon Media. This strategic purchase expands Oberon in the mobile games market. According to the press release, Oberon will even try to offer casual PC games. I’m more interested though to see if Oberon will mobilise it’s flash games trough Blaze’s contracts with the operators. What is clear at this moment, is that the name Blaze will stop to exsist as the blaze.com website has been rebranded to Oberon media. For those who don’t know blaze, here’s the background;
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HandyGames brings another unique game
November 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Today, HandyGames released LiftBoy. LiftBoy follows in the range of original games like Porn Manager and Beershooter. As a liftboy, your task is not only to bring your passengers to the right floor in the least amount of time, but also to do some smooth talking to earn tips. The game is stuffed with unique wacky characters ranging from hot waitresses to half naked managers.
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