Flurry: Making iPhone Apps Pay

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Flurry has released an article over at Forbes about how developers can increase the performance of their mobile games. “Treat it like a song” the company’s Chief Executive Simon Khalaf says…

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Aurora Feint Opens iPromote

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In order to stimulate the uptake of their Xbox Live like environment called OpenFeint (1.5), Aurora Feint is adding new One Touch iPromote functionality to their system.

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O2 DE Ditches Arvato for FOX Mobile

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It seems FOX Mobile is moving deeper into the market. Through Jamba, the company was already providing mobile games and content to several operators. Now, it has won a deal with O2 Germany over Germany based Arvato Mobile.

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Maxis Sends Spore Developer back to College

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

In order to stimulate students that wish to take part in the games industry, Maxis is sending the developer of their Spore franchise to colleges around the US.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Release on May 11th?

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

According to a blogpost at Microsoft, the new Windows Mobile 6.5 will be released toward developers on the eleventh of May. The date is in-line with Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference.

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Danger Installs NetBSD

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: NetBSD | No Comments »

Just when you thought that the market for mobile operating systems was being narrowed down, Danger announces that it will install the open source NetBSD OS on its Sidekick devices.

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123play.com Signs Metro

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

123Play found a new, excellent European partner to promote their free mobile games. 123Play will make it’s catalogue available to the readers of the free Metro newspaper.

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Euro Mobile Media 75% Discount Code

April 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

With just days to go until the Euro Mobile Media event, the organizers are slashing the price of the last prizes. With the new discount code you get a massive 75% discount on the ticket price!

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Scoreloop Launches (Interview)

April 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

Today is a big day for Scoreloop as their new social gaming service just went live. We sat down with its CEO Marc Gumpinger and CTO Dominik Westner to discuss the pro’s and con’s of a service like this.

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Meffys Deadline Extended

April 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Didn’t come round to submitting your mobile game to the Meffys? No problem as the deadline of these commercial awards show has been shifted to the 24th of April.