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InfoSpace Extends Virgin Content Deal

January 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Good news on the front of InfoSpace for a change as InfoSpace just inked down a nice deal with Virgin Mobile in the UK. In the deal, Virgin commits to let InfoSpace run its BITES storefront for another five years. InfoSpace controls all mobile content on this mobile storefront. Even though this is not entirely mobile gaming relates, it does feel nice to write something positive about this company who is plagued with bad news lately.

The iPhone with Peter Cohen

January 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Our friends at Quicklybored did an interview with MacAholic Peter Cohen. Peter is known for his GameRoom columns in MacWorld Magazine. QB goes deep into the possibilities (which are confirmed to be very limited) for smaller developers to get their mobile games on the iPhone.

The Shame Game

January 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

On the good old w2forum there is a lively discussion going on about malicious partners in our little industry. How can developers claim money for sales on their mobile games with a non-paying partner, or even from pirate sites? There is a whole thread about it.

Carnival of the Mobilists #58

January 22nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

While I hear Madonna yelling "Time goes by, so slowely", I’m reading the 58th Carnival of the Mobilists at TomSoft which clearly shows things are moving fast in this little industry as the iPhone left a clear mark all over this week.

Carnival of the Mobilists #57

January 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Its been a few weeks, but the guys over at Wapreview just launched the 57th edition of the carnival.

Amp’d shows the numbers

January 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Amp’d Mobile, the content driven US based MVNO has disclosed details about their consumer base. Amp’d now serves up to 100K consumer of which 89% is postpaid. The average monthly spend on mobile games is $3.

Noticing the mobile games industry

January 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Thanks to the guys at QB, we noticed a nice post on cellular-news about how the mobile games industry pulled the attention of publishers over the last years. It shows a nice increase on the expected revenues that will be made in the industry.

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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VASland2006, meet your consumers!

January 4th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Buongiorno took the liberty of releasing their anual VASland report for 2006. Looking at the press release, the report devides our consumer base into three types of consumers which is beyond popular terms like early adapters, casual gamers or even male vs. female.

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Acme: South-East Asian Games Top 10

January 3rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Acme Mobile released their top ten of best selling games along the Southeast Asian region, based on sales of their amob.com portal. The range of best selling games has a remarkable low number of licensed mobile games.

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