Palm Announces Second WebOS Device

September 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

With the Palm Pre reaching the end of it's shelf life in the US (It's been there for months already). Palm announced their second WebOS based phone called the Pixi.

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C64 Emulator Removed

September 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we where happy to report that the C64 emulator from Kiloo and Manomio had finally been approved by Apple, it has now been removed from the App Store as there was a way for consumers to access BASIC in it.

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Sony About Minis vs. the App Store

September 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

In an interview at develop, Sony Europe's Zeno Colaco outlines some of the key differences between their Minis platform for the PSP and Apple's App Store for the iPhone.

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Greystripe Raises Another $2 Million

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Greystripe has completed their third round of financing. During this round, the company secured $2 million from the Peacock Equity Fund, a fund from General Electric's and NBC Universal.

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PSP Minis Pricing Unveiled

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Developer GameShastra has (accidentally) revealed the price points for Sony's PSP Minis service. As expected, they are set to compete directly with the app store and so, are lower than those of DSIware.

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Rockstar Enters the iPhone

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems TAG Games will get fierce competition as GTA will be heading toward the iPhone. Until know, the crime scenes where dominated by Carjack Streets from the UK developer.

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Breaking: Palm Leaks WebOS 1.2

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has leaked version 1.2 of their WebOS toward consumers. 2.1 allows Palm to remove software and consumers to complete purchases directly from the device.

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Turner Signs Brands to GlobalFun and Kiloo

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Turner Broadcasting has signed a three year EMEA distribution deal with GlobalFun to bring their brands to the J2me markets. At the same time, Kiloo scoops Ben10 for non-gaming content.

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AppsFire: iPhone Consumers Spend $80,-

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A recent survey from US based AppsFire amongst 1.200 consumers shows that they have downloaded 65 applications and games on average, spending about $ 80,- on them.

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Verizon App Store Backed by 1K Developers

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Being the biggest operator in the US clearly has it's advantages. Since Verizon announced that the company wanted to do an App Store, 1.000 developers and publishers have signed up for it.