Frank Keeling Leaves Glu

September 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Glu has lost it's EMEA managing director Frank Keeling. His job will be split up between James Scalpello (EMEA Marketing Director) and Olivier Bernard (EMEA Sales Director).

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Tribal Fusion Partners with Greystripe on Ad Sales

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In a new deal between Tribal Fusion and Greystripe, Tribal Fusion will be selling a part of Greystripe's ad inventory. The company will primarily focus on the iPhone.

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Sony Limits Minis to Speed up Testing

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

The PSP Minis platform seems to be more successful amongst developers then Sony had anticipated. The
company announced to limit options of games to speed up testing.

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RealGames Into Publishing

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms, Distribution | No Comments »

To assist mobile game developers in the ever growing pain of porting, RealGames has announced a new initiative called Federation of Studios. It should assist developers in porting to over 1700 devices in about 6 weeks.

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Applications Store Event Launched

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

When a topic gets it's own event, you know there is a lot of competition in a market. As so, some fellows decided to launch an event for those operating mobile application stores.

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Neomobile Takes New Investors on Board

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

BlueGem and MPS Venture have taken a controling stake in mobile content and services distributor Neo Mobile. They replace Teleunit who used to be the major shareholder.

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OutboundCity Wants Tities from Apple

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

App Store developers OutboundCicy has put an open letter to Apple on it's website to complaint about the difference in nudity regulations for movies and mobile games on iTunes.

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Iugo Eyeballs Platform Expansion

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Iugo, maker of the toybot series on the iPhone has announced that it is looking to expand it's universe to platforms like the Sony PSP and RIM's BlackBerry.

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Thumbstar, a year after…

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Distribution | 4 Comments »

Most of you probably remember how TelcoGames went bust, leaving debts all over the market and of course a lot of employees on the streets. One of them, Martin Kitney, has started his own aggregator and has been trading for over a year now.