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CIVILIZATION to Reign on Mobile Phones
March 17th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Com2uS, a leading global developer and publisher of mobile games, has secured an exclusive three-year global deal with Atari, Inc. to create mobile phones games based on Sid Meier’s Civilization, the hugely popular empire-building strategy game developed by Firaxis Games.
With more than 7 million units sold worldwide since its launch, Sid Meier’s Civilization and its sequels are among the most popular PC games of recent years and have inspired a generation of desktop dictators. A deep and addictive strategy game, Civilization puts players in the role of a would-be empire builder whose aim is to expand his dominion through bold exploration, careful diplomacy, ruthless trade, gradual development and intense combat. More …
Summus and Mattel Join Forces to Deliver Classic Games to Wireless
March 16th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Agreement Includes Wireless Versions of Popular Mattel Games — UNO(R), Ker Plunk!(R), Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots(TM) and Toss Across(TM)
Summus, Inc., a leading provider of mobile media applications that optimize the consumer wireless experience, today announced it has partnered with the world’s leading family products company, Mattel, Inc. (NYSE: MAT), to develop and distribute America’s favorite card game, UNO
Agreement Extends Ojom’s Capabilities as a Major Provider of Mobile Games and Entertainment Titles
March 16th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks and Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, today announced that VeriSign’s mobile games publishing unit, Ojom, has signed a long term multi-product licensing agreement to distribute the latest mobile games to mobile carriers and wireless users.
The agreement will enable mobile carriers to offer a wide range of popular games to users developed from well-known movie and television properties including Universal Pictures’ October 21st, 2005 release George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, as well as the classic Universal properties ET The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future and Magnum P.I. More …
Study: Ring tones, mobile games to skyrocket
March 16th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
Revenue from ring tones more than doubled in 2004 and will grow substantially during the next four years, market researcher Jupiter Media said on Tuesday.
Last year, ring tone revenue in the U.S. market was $217 million, up from $91 million in the previous year, the company said. And in 2009, revenue from ring tones will reach $724 million, the company projected.
The mobile-game market also experienced growth and is expected to stay healthy, according to the market researcher. Revenue for 2004 grew to $72 million, up 300 percent compared with the previous year. The research company expects game revenue to reach $430 million in 2009. More …
Namco America Releases Winter Wireless Game Line-Up
March 15th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
New Arcade Classics, PAC-MAN Branded Games, and Networked and Original Games for Mobile.
Namco America Inc., a leading publisher of wireless games and content, announced today the release of their winter season game line-up. Already a publisher of Top Ten mobile hits including PAC-MAN(R) and Ms. PAC-MAN(R), this release adds six new games to Namco’s mobile games catalog. Mobile customers can now play more of their favorite arcade classics and new PAC-MAN branded games on their wireless devices. They can also play new, original products specifically designed for the mobile community with wireless functionalities like online over-the-air networked play. More …
Nokia Announces New Price Point For N-Gage QD and Games
March 15th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »
Pre-Paid N-Gage price frop and game library price cuts on the horizon.
Nokia announces today that the N-Gage QD and N-Gage game library will go under some pretty serious price cuts this month as part of a new strategy to bring more gamers into the marketplace. The unfortunate bit about this is that not all retailers will be participating in this cut, at the moment it seems like Gamestop / Musicland related companies will be the only ones offering the pre-paid N-Gage QD at $99 while channel partners will still vary in their pricing of the device depending on contract decisions. More …
The future is South Korea: Tech firms try out latest in world’s most wired society
March 14th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »
Pick up your mobile phone and watch your favorite TV show. At home, on your computer, download a feature-length movie in no time at all. If you live in South Korea, it is an everyday reality to have always-on superfast Internet — broadband — both in your cell phone and in your home. More …
Interview CEO JamDat: Fun for Fingers
March 14th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »
Mitch Lasky has a serious addiction. In recent years the CEO of L.A.’s Jamdat Mobile, a company that develops games for mobile phones, has challenged hundreds of other gamers to Bejeweled, a head-to-head brain twizzler. In it, players
Mobile Gaming Gets the Limelight at GDC
March 14th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »
The mobile-videogame industry is showing off the progress it’s made from the antediluvian days of the mid-1990s, when playing Snake on a tiny black-and-white screen was cutting-edge. Thousands of eager developers, savvy entrepreneurs, and avid gamers will descend on the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association meeting in New Orleans next week as both well-established companies and ill-funded startups look for opportunities in the hottest industry going. More …
Larry Flynt Publications, Inc. and Giant Mobile Corporation to Launch Hustler Mobile in North America and Asia
March 12th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Adult Games | No Comments »
Larry Flynt Publications, Inc. and Giant Mobile Corporation today announced an extension of their license agreement to bring Hustler Mobile to North America and Asia. This extension is motivated by the tremendous success of Hustler Mobile in the European market. “Hustler Mobile is doing exceedingly well in Europe. I feel that wireless is the wave of the future, the crown jewel in the electronic distribution and delivery of content,” said Larry Flynt. More …
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