IMGA Nominees Announced

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

With the Mobile World Congress only weeks away, the IMGA jury has announced the nominees to this year’s award show in Barcalona. In total, 25 titles will compete for cash and other prizes.

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Walt Mossberg Reviews the iSlate

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A day before Jobs will take the stage, surprising us with a product we all expect, Walt Mossberg is discussing the iSLate and its latest features including support for iPhone apps.

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NeoGames Launches Mobile Scratch cards

January 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gambling | No Comments »

Neogames, a company that has been running online scratch card services in the UK, has announced to start releasing mobile versions of their online scratch card games within the UK market.

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FreeAppADay’s Businessplan

January 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Jon Jordan is running stories on the business behind the FreeAppADay portal of ICS Mobile. Apart from giving away your game for free, there is also a heavy price to pay for the traffic.

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Flurry Discovers the iSlate

January 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Flurry has detected Apple’s new tablet in their stats. They have counted 50 tablets through 200 Flurry enabled apps on Apple’s own App Store. Flurry could also locate the geographical location; Cupertino campus.

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Admob December Metrics

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Following closely after the December stats from Getjar, we received those of Admob. Their December package is comfortable packaged in a PDF so we will just sum up some highlights.

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Mobclix’s Top 5 Addicting Games of 2009

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Mobclix has conducted some research to find the most addictive mobile games on the app store over 2009. The grand prize is for Doodle Jump which sells on the App Store at a mere $0.99.

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Kindle Opening Up

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle | No Comments »

Amazon has announced it will allow developers to create apps for its e-book readers. Amazon will allow ‘active content’ later in 2010 and the first developers have been reported working on mobile games for it.

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SEGA to Launch Emulator on the App Store

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Following the Commodore emulator of Kiloo, SEGA will now also start selling an emulator for their classic Master System on the App Store. In fact, the emulator will be free with one game, but the others will have to be purchased.

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Tetris Mobile Passes 100 Million Downloads

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Tetris has always been a success on mobile and it will probably stay a success for a long time. Today, EA is expected to announce that Tetris has managed to generate a total of 100 Million downloads since 2005 (the year they bought Jamdat).