The Motley Fool: BUY Super High Risky GLUU

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

The guys behind The Motley Fool wrote a very interesting article on Glu. The editor advises to buy Glu’s shares, though he claims that they are a super high risk because he doesn’t know any cash positive mobile game publisher

eLBeS 2009 Speakers Announced

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Its been a year since eLBeS kicked off during the Nordic Games Conference of 2008 in the city of Malm

N-Gage and PocketGamer Launch Digital Magazine

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

To further promote the N-Gage service, Pocket Gamer and N-Gage teamed up to create a downloadable PDF magazine which can be freely downloaded from the N-Gage weblog.

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Apple Features IGF Finalists

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Is Apple quick by acting on current events, or was this planned for a long time? Many questions arise around the massive success of iPhone titles at the IGF awards earlier this week. Yet, the lucky winners are getting a royal treatment from Apple.

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BlackBerry App World launching comingWeek!?

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

It has been silent on RIM’s App World storefront the past couple of weeks, but that is about to change. Rumors say that RIM has planned to launch its highly anticipated App World storefront at CTIA next week.

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Euro Mobile Media Speakers Announced

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

When a mobile event is influenced by a former mobile gaming player, you can bet on it that there will be a strong precense from that part of the mobile industry. As so, the list of speakers for this new event contains persons like Russel Buckley from Admob and Volker Hirsch from Connect2Media.

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Player X Company of the Year at Media Magnate Awards

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

It was a tight finish as they needed to compete with global broadcaster BSkyB, but last night Player X has managed to win the prestigious Media Magnate Awards.

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GameSpy Heads to iPhone

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

Following a huge list of platforms like Nintendo’s DS and Sony’s Playstation 3, multiplayer specialist GameSpy is now also focusing on bringing it’s platform to Apple’s iPhone platform.

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Pwn2Own 5 Smartphone OS’s Remain Unhacked

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

During the Pwn2Own hackers event, organizer Tippingpoint challenged the hackers to find exploits for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. In the case that an exploit would be found, that hacker would be awarded $10K.

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KDB Brings Flash Lite to non-Flash Lite Mobile Phones

March 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Ever fancied bringing your Flash Lite game to devices that don’t have Flash Lite installed? With the latest tool called EBoda, from a company called KDB Technology Ltd, this might finally become reality.