Offscreen Celebrates 25 Million Ovi Downloads

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Offscreen seems to be one of the mass content providers to Nokia’s Ovi Store. The company’s Ovi offering consists of eBooks, mobile games and applications and has announced their 25th million download. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone Pushes Apple’s Profits

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

If anyone is wondering why Apple is so protective of its market, it is probably because the iPhone and App Store are turning into Apple’s primary revenue streams according to their last quarterly report. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Abandons iPhone Development

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems like Adobe has given up on the dream to launch Flash apps/players on the iPhone. The company will still deliver the iPhone compiler with Flash CS5, but it will already be an end-of-life product. Read the rest of this entry »

MGB Launched on Facebook

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »

Following a softlaunch last Monday, MobileGamesBlog.com has now officially launched a facebook fanpage. Show your dedication to the mobile games and apps industry and become a Fan! Read the rest of this entry »

HTC Fixes the Legend’s Android Market Block

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

HTC has finally started to roll out a solution for all those consumers that are locked out of certain apps on the Android Market, an issue which we addressed when the phone launched last month. Read the rest of this entry »

Antix Game Player Goes Live

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Antix, developer of the multi-screen native gaming platform with the same name, has announced that their platform is finally ready and developers can start to sign up for their GDK. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone 4G/HD Dissected

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, we reported that Gizmodo was asked by Apple to return the found iPhone prototype. Since the thing is legit, Gizmodo decided not to send the device back before it was taken apart. Read the rest of this entry »

HandyGames Turns Ten

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

German developer HandyGames has started to celebrate their tenth birthday. Coming from the good old wap and black&white J2me titles, this developer has seen and survived all of it. Read the rest of this entry »

Lunaforte Celebrates 4 Million Downloads in One Quarter

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Lunaforte has reached a new milestone. The Dutch developer’s downloads in the first quarter of this year passed 4 million. Their cross-platform strategy seems to be paying off. Read the rest of this entry »

Q1 Stats: The Sims 3 Makes Top Dollar

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Together with iGameStats, MGB is providing quarterly insights into the App Store. In our first post, we announced Big Blue Bubble as the best publisher quality wise. This time we look at the revenues. Read the rest of this entry »