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Juniper Research: $ 10.5 billion in 2009

October 6th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Juniper Research announced the mobile games market is up for a steep growth. The market is expected to have a value of $ 3 billion this year and will grow to $ 10.5 billion in 2009.

Casual and female gamers drive the industry

October 6th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Juniper Research announced our focus should remain on the female and casual gamer. Even though the technologies advance to allow pretty amazing games, Juniper tells us it’s better to stay on the safe side.

"I think mobile games have come of age," Bruce Gibson, Research Director at Juniper Research, said. "The casual games sector is going to be the market driver, even though it may not be at the leading edge of mobile games technology. Casual games make most use of the inherent advantages of the mobile platform.."

Nokia on route to total solution provider

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Nokia announced it will aim itself more as a solution provider. Nokia already included services like Flickr and Yahoo! Mail in their handsets, but will look more into providing services next to their hardware. Nokia follows the PC market where hardware vendors also started working with software solutions. Nokia’s Widsets service which we spoke off earlier, was one of the first steps in this direction. To facilitate this move, Nokia’s CTO moved to New York as multiple industry leaders are based there. Also Nokia hopes this will open up the path to silicon valley.

Vodafone content guru steps down

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Graeme Ferguson, global head of content development At Vodafone UK, resigned from his job. Vodafone will replace him with Dirk Wierzbitzki. It’s unclear if this is because of the major reorganization.

The first Flash Lite markets

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 4 Comments »

Flash Lite has already reached the status of buzzword 2006 on the mobile games blog here with all the discussions about how to create it and where in theory you could put it on. One of the problem area’s we didn’t really find a solution for is how to put your games and apps on the market. Thanks to the Biskero blog, we found out that Moket has introduced a distribution network on which you can sign up.

Buy the game, get on the show!

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Capcom enters a new level of mobile marketing with it’s Who want’s to be a millionaire title. Together with Verizon, Capcom offers downloaders a chance to win tickets to New York to actually participate on the show.

"Millionaire 2007 is a very important brand for Capcom and we’re tremendously excited to offer fans of the franchise the chance to experience this once in a lifetime opportunity," said Midori Yuasa, president of Capcom Interactive.

Black Citadel II for I-Play

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

I-Play launched the Black Citadel II from French developer Kaolink. The game is well known in the industry for it’s CTIA nomination back in 2004 where it got a lot of attention for it’s gameplay and graphics.

David Gosen, CEO of I-Play, commented: “Black Citadel II is easy to play yet totally addictive

Verisign and JoWood, what’s this about!?

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Verisign and JoWood seem to have conceived a deal in which the JoWood games portfolio will be converted to mobile games. If this also hold’s JoWood’s Yetisports range is not expected as those are allready available for some time. We expect the games to pop up trough Verisign’s Ojom unit.

“VeriSign is committed to providing the richest content with an exceptional user experience that is most relevant to our customer’s customer,” said Kevin Dent, Head of International Licensing and Syndication for VeriSign. “JoWooD has great blockbuster brands which we feel can make an easy transition to the mobile space. The combination of expertise from JoWooD and VeriSign brings a new force to the gaming marketplace.”

“VeriSign has always been committed to the growth of the global premium mobile content markets,” said Vikrant Gandhi, Industry Analyst for Frost & Sullivan. “The VeriSign and JoWooD partnership will allow consumers to play the most popular computer, online

Press releases accepted

October 5th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | 1 Comment »

We receive a lot of pressreleases about distribution deals lately. As most of you have noticed, we didn’t really pace them as we never felt like writing stories about them. However since today we chose to place them in the press releases category and post them just the way we receive them. So bring on your pressreleases!