InFusio Bites the Dust? – UPDATED

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

InFusio, another big name from the past, seems to have passed away. The company has resided in administration over the past months and last week the employees where informed that the show is over.

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Archos Announces Android App Store

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Archos will be launching it's new internet tablet later this month. The device will be android powered and surprisingly enough hold it's own App Store called AppLib. It seems the Android Market will not be available on the device at all.

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Gamevil’s Financial Results

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gamevil closed a very good quarter. The company saw it's revenues grow 67% (or 5.4 billion KRW) year-on-year and the profits went up 214% to 2.6 billion KRW.

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GamesCom: DsiWare Becomes More Accessible

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: DSiWare | No Comments »

For those that want to work with the Nintendo DSi, there is some good news ahead. The platform will become more accessible to small developers according to a representative we spoke at the GamesCom.

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Details Emerge for PSP Minis Development

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | 1 Comment »

A new platform category starts at MGB as last week we got loads of information on PSP Minis. This might be the next easy platform for mobile game developers to launch their games onto.

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Reverb Communications Caught Cheating on App Store

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yes, we are finally back from Cologne and already received a tip about a story that Techcrunch ran on PR firm Reverb Communications. Those guys seem to cheat with consumer reviews to boost the apps of their clients.

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GamesCom: Gedda Headz Launches

August 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

This morning we came across a booth with Gedda Headz. Though at first they looked like nice (canned) toys, there is actually a full mobile gaming environment behind them that evolves around online play.

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GDC: Fishlabs on iPhone Marketing, Pricing, Piracy and HandyGames

August 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today we met Andreas Stecher from Fishlabs. He talked with us about their experience with iPhone gaming as well as their platform expectations for the future.

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Apps Will Come for Zune

August 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

According to a blog called Daring Fireball, Microsoft has started to contact iPhone developers in the hope to get them to port their apps to Microsoft's Zune HD device.