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The Sims hits the one million mark

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

EA Mobile announced their Sims game reached 1 million sold units in about 7 months time. Looking at the distribution of EA, which is still mainly US focused (and at the tier 1 EU channels), there is even much more potential for the game.

Open Discussion #2: Looking beyond the mobile Phone

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Open Discussions | 8 Comments »

Finally the second open discussion at the mobile games & gaming blog has started. Today the discussion will be about new devices to create your games on. The trigger for this discussion is Apple who released their iPod games which are based on J2me (correct me if I’m wrong) and Adobe who made device profiles for the iRiver MP3 player available on the FlashLite platform. What will be next (Zune?), and is this al good for us? Let us know below, no registration required!

ME Awards 2006: And the winners are

September 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The ME award show has been held and the winners are known. The 2006 winners are;

Best Imaging Company: Fonestarz
Best Gambling Company: Spin3
Best Adult Services Company: Cherrysauce
Best D2C Aggregator: Jamster
Best Games Developer: Digital Chocolate
Best Games Publisher: Gameloft
Best Music Label: Universal Music
Best Video Producer: MTV
Best Video and TV provider: MobiTV
Best Music Service Provider: Shazam
Best Games Service Provider: Terraplay
Best Handset Company: SonyEricsson
Best Payment/Billing Provider: mBlox
Best Content Service Platform: Motricity
Best On-Device Portal Provider: SurfKitchen
Best Mobile Marketing Service Provider: Enpocket
Best Content Service: 3 UK with Me TV
Best Operator: 3 UK
Outstanding Contribution to Mobile Entertainment: Ray Anderson, Bango

"The innovation and creativity of this sector is remarkable, affecting the habits of many millions of people all around the world. We’re delighted to have recognised this exceptional work with the ME Awards." commented Tim Green from ME Magazine.

Namco’s iPod games

September 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | 2 Comments »

In advance to our open discussion tomorrow, QB published an interview with Namco’s Scott Rubin. The interview is mainly focused at Pac-Man’s debut on the iPod, however QB also put online a series of iPod game reviews at the same time.

12% of U.S. Teens think mobile games

September 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Over at QB, they found the results of a survey about phone feature use held by Let’s Talk under 1200 U.S. teens. Though 1200 isn’t a huge number, the results do look normal. The survey pointed out that 12% of the U.S. teens regard mobile games and gaming as an important feature on their phones.

Open discussion #2 announcement

September 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Open Discussions | No Comments »

To start of the new open discussion a bit better then the last one, we decided to announce it a few days before it actually takes place. This Friday, the open discussion will be about mobile device coverage of games. This reflects to the announcements of Apple to support downloadable games on the iPod and Adobe who released their latest Flash Lite profile for creative’s iRiver MP3 player. The general topic is, will we branch out to devices such as MP3 players as Flash Lite and perhaps even J2me to become available on them. So why would or wouldn’t you go for it? See you all on Friday!

New Flash Lite device profiles at Adobe

September 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Aniway announced on their development blog the availability of new device profiles at adobe that are to be installed within Flash 8. The latest update doesn’t only cover the latest phones like the 3rd generation Nokia series 60, but also allows you to make your flash files available for the iRiver MP3 player.

Time to let the carnival begin #44 & #45

September 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

We wanted to do it last week, but Pikesoft who hosted carnival of the mobilists 44 seemed to be down. Well, it’s up again, so I would advice you read it if you haven’t already. Also in this post, we’d like to announce carnival 45 at mobilecrunch. For all of you out there who have no clue what the carnival is, check the mobilist site. Compliments to both Crunch and Pike about their great work gathering and writing about everything that has been going on in the industry the past weeks.

Gameloft vs. Glu, who’s the number 2?

September 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As our friends at QB report, it seems the heat is on between Glu and Gameloft about who really is the number 2 (as EA is the clear winner at the moment) in the world of mobile games. Gameloft has openly challenged Glu to make its numbers public so anyone can see if Glu’s statements about being number 2 are true.

Bluesphere: rumors say Game Over!?

September 19th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ok, again its rumor time, but this time we can’t find anyone to point the finger toward if it’s not true. So we will not say that we received several emails that Blue Sphere is bankrupt. We never received those, I repeat, we never received those! It would just be a shame to see one of the companies from the good old days to go down