Samsung and Handmark Announce Gaming Innovation Fund

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In order to drive more traffic to their Samsung Applications Store, Samsung and Handmark have announced a new fund to target innovators in mobile game development.

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Unity Technologies Secures $5.5M in Funding

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Unity Technologies has just closed their series A funding round. The company managed to secure $5.5 Million from Sequoia Capital, David Gardner (CEO Atari) and Diane Greene (VMWare Founder).

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Agon Online Launches Games Portal

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The company behind AGON Online has launched a new games portal to promote games supporting the community engine. With the portal, the company hopes consumers will find it more easy to discover AGON titles.

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Is iPhone Piracy a Real Problem?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Lately, there have been a lot of stories where developers complaint over iPhone piracy. Some of them are long time mobile game developers and that made me wonder… is Piracy a problem? Is it even that new?

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Sharewire Terminates D2C Platform

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Where a lot of companies are opening up their D2C platforms (or App Stores), Sharewire has decided to close theirs. Their system allowed everyone to have their own mobile content store in minutes.

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Greystripe Revenues up to 10K/App/Month

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In an interview with Greystripe's Michael Chang, Jon Jordan found out that the network is performing at a level where some apps and games manage to make $10.000 a month in revenues.

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Android 2.0 SDK Released

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google’s Android team has officially announced the arrival of the Android 2.0 SDK called Eclair. The new SDK will bring developers loads of new API’s to play around with.

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HandyGames and AMA Release First Ubisoft Title, Sign of More to Come?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »

About a month ago, MGB reported that the love between Gameloft and Ubisoft was pretty much over and that Ubisoft was open to discussion when it comes to licensing their IP out to others.

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App Store Passes 100K Apps & Games

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A new milestone has been reached by Apple as the company has now processed 100.000 apps in total (the word saturation buzzes inside my head), but there is something funny about this bit of news.

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Google Expands Analytics on iPhone and Android

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Google is in the process of updating it's Google Analytics platform. One of the updates will allow app and mobile game developers to track user engagement inside the apps and games.