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Ready? Click! Pay! Go!

January 5th, 2007 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

Arjan asked
me to do a little write-up of ClickPayGo from Chillingo seeing as we
(OrangePixel) are the first ones to start using it in Java games. So first let
me explain you what ClickPayGo actually is.

The service
is developed and hosted by Chillingo.com the guys behind clickgamer.com, and straight
from the ClickPayGo site here is a little explanation of what it is: “ClickPayGo
is a FREE wallet/account system that allows you to re-download your purchases
at anytime, instantly. Think FREE "download insurance" and much more!”. Read more for some interesting details.

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Rate our stats

November 24th, 2006 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 3 Comments »

If you are a bit of a freaky person that has way to much time, you will agree that looking at statistics can be a bundle of joy and fun. You can ofcourse always interprete the results in anyway you see fit, and that is part of the bundle of joy and fun!

Having seen the recent post from MobileRated concerning their top10 of phones, we decided to finally post some of our statistics! These are taken from our free RumbleX.com gaming services and boy oh boy are they a bundle of joy and fun! (it’s Friday, so stay with me)

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Did Wii blow it?

November 22nd, 2006 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Games | 2 Comments »

If you are a fan of their cute and cuddly games or not, nobody can deny that Nintendo is currently at the front of gameing entertainment inovation. With the Nintendo DS they already showed that there is great interest amongst "non-gamers" of all ages and genders. Now they have released their Wii system and it should have every game-designer clapping his hands and stamping his feet like a little kid.

What this has to do with mobile games? well guess what, we already had all those non-gamers, we already had a device screaming for new creative game concepts and controls, and we blew it!

Luckily it is not to late, so read on

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Color me Orange

November 14th, 2006 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

As Arjan mentioned in a previous post, I offered myself, as the cheap person I am, to do some guest editorials. Hopefully I can bring some insight into the business side of the "Mobile games scene" (yes I am from those old C64 days that allows me to say words like "scene" and "awesome").

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