November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »
Just before the weekend, a number of developers saw their mobile games being booted off the App Store by Apple. The problem? They used Unity Platform and Unity was breaching its contract with Apple by supporting undocumented API’s.
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November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: J2me | 2 Comments »
Developers who want to get on board of SonyEricsson’s PlayNow Arena Fun & Downloads service will now be allowed to get their J2me games signed at Thawte and Verisign.
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November 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Dutch developer Rough Cookie has won an award at the Dutch Game Awards 2009. They won the Best Mobile/Handheld game award with their iPhone title Star Defense.
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November 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »
Microsoft has set the first step to warm up consumers for their Zune brand. Last Friday, the whole X-Box Live community received an e-mail detailing the arrival of Zune with the new 360 update
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
A class act lawsuit has been going on in the US, aimed at mBlox, Inc., 2WayTraffic Mobile USA, Inc. f/k/a Emexus Americas, Inc., 2WayTraffic USA, Inc., Dada USA, Inc. d/b/a Dadamobile, Inc., Dada Entertainment, LLC, UPOC Networks, Inc. f/k/a Upoc, Inc., Lavalife, LLC, Mobile Entertainment, Inc., Playphone, Inc., SendMe, Inc., SJA Mobile, LLC, W3i Mobile, LLC f/k/a Freeze Mobile, LLC, W3i Holdings, LLC and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. over unlawfull recurring charges.
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »
At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced to start implementing OpenGL ES into their handsets. With the implementation of OpenGL, the company is increasing its commitment toward the mobile games industry.
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »
Samsung has announced a new Open Source OS called Bada. The first Bada device is expected to hit the shelves during the first six months of 2010. To warm up developers, it announced that Bada will replace Symbian OS.
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »
Good news for developers of adult games and applications. RIM is working on an age rating system to allow mature themed content to be sold on BlackBerry App World.
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »
Following the lawsuit story yesterday, several Storm8 games have been pulled from the App Store. In the US, only World War, Kingdoms Live and Vampires Live remained online.
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November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »
When we opened up iTunes this morning, we noticed a new promotional page aiming specifically at Girls called “App Store Essentials: Apps for Girls”. With this theme, Apple is clearly supporting a stereotype view on the market.
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