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Mobile Alliance and Realore Studios team up

October 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Mobile Alliance signed a deal with Realore Studios to create and co-publish titles based on the Realore branded games. With this deal, Mobile Alliance will bring licenses like Aqua Bubble, Age Of Japan, Turtle Odyssey, Aquatic Of Sherwood, Bubble Ice Age and Abandoned Well to the mobile phone.

IndiaGames joins the Flash Lite Craze

October 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Following the announcement of Verizon to sell Flash Lite content, not only Skyzone, but also IndiaGames joins the ride. IndiaGames will shortly release their “The Office” games on the new popular mobile games platform. The games will be available on Get It Now enabled phones that have Flash Lite for Brew supported.

MasterGear for Series 60 3rd gen.

October 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

All About Symbian released a review of the latest version of MasterGear, a Sega Mastersystem and Gamegear emulator. Excellent reading for those that want to catch up with the old days. A Nokia E61 is advised though

$25.000 reasons to play

October 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Another effort to activate non-downloading mobile gamers is made by HandsOn as they have launched probably the biggest mobile sweepstakes to date. HandsOn has announced that every downloader of mobile games in the U.S. (except New York & Florida) will automatically enter in order to win the grand price of $ 25.000. There are also two first prices of $ 5.000 and a bunch of mobile phones that will be handed out to the winners. The sweepstakes are promoted on several locations like Shockwave.com and AddictingGames.com.

Verizon to sell Flash Lite

October 25th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 3 Comments »

This morning we found a press release from Verizon Wireless about their on deck support for Flash Lite. Verizon will kick of it’s Flash Lite service for the LG VX9800, Motorola RAZR V3C, V3M and Samsung A950. Other phones are expected to be supported soon.

“Verizon Wireless’ commitment to improving the mobile experiences of our customers while providing value to our developer and handset partners is an ongoing priority. By combining Flash Lite with the BREW solution which enables our Get It Now service, developers have a new way to easily design and market rich, interactive content to our customers

Greystripe shows the numbers

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

We have heard a lot of news from Greystripe and their Gamejump platform, but never any results until today as QB shows us. Greystripe has sent out some interesting numbers about their ad subsidized mobile games portal.

Top 10 downloads

01 Texas Hold’em – Ozura
02 Adventure Boy in Zooloo Land – HandyGames
03 BlackJack – Ozura
04 Aqualife – Bogee Interactive
05 SuDoKu – Greystripe
06 Baja Buggy – Fugu Mobile
07 Ghost Hunter RPG – Ozura
08 Townsmen 3

Whitepaper download: It’s all phones and games

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 3 Comments »

Some blog visitors just read

Kiloo connects with Terraplay

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

If it’s up to our friends at Kiloo, we will soon all be playing Lego together again as they announced their deal with Terraplay. The connection with Terraplay allows consumers to share highscores, and play multiplayer games. Also Terraplay allows (local) contests and ingame billing, recommendations and other services.

“Kiloo’s goal is to push mobile gaming into the mass market.” says Jacob M

AMP’d Mobile bike commercial

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | 1 Comment »

For all people that haven’t seen the latest Amp’d commercial yet;

I-Play signs a fishy deal

October 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Following up on the distribution deal between Fishlabs and Arvato signed Oktober 13th 2005, this time Fishlabs announced to distribute their titles trough I-Play. They kick off with five titles; Galaxy on fire, Planet Riders, Burning Tires, Tank Raid and Heli Strike.

"Fishlabs is well known for creating top-notch 3D mobile games," said David Gosen, CEO of I-play. "Adding their superb 3D games to our existing portfolio makes perfect sense, as the demand for high-end 3D games is steadily increasing. We’re excited about the partnership and impressed by their gaming properties which fit with our own philosophy of ‘one-thumb’ gaming."

Fishlabs CEO Michael Schade added: "Creating compelling high-end 3D games for a broad range of mobile phones involves heavy investments. So you need to find a strong partner not only with many direct channels but also with highly committed local sales teams in every key territory to launch the titles on as many operator decks as possible. That’s why we have signed the publishing deal with I-play."

Back at the 2005 GCDC in Leipzich, Fishlabs COO Christian Lohr showed me their first mobile games, which already stunned me. It’s great to see them become available more widely then ever before. Also the ingame connectivity options with the Exit Games Neutron service, will promote connected gameplay all over the globe.