Blocknights Twitter Promo

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

The team behind Block Nights have taken a new approach into getting mobile gamers to tweet about their Blocknights mobile game. They are keeping a real Poem contest.

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GDC: Mobile Games University Competition 2009 Winners

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Forum Nokia revealed the winners of its global Mobile Games University Competition. Parsons The New School for Design in the US and The Upper Austria University have scooped the two prestigious top spots.

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GDC: ARM Outlines Mobile Gaming Vision

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

As a lot of you will probably remember, we recently wrote about ARM's strategic investment in Ideaworks3D. Now, the company officially announced it's vision on mobile gaming (hardware).

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ng:moco Raises another $10 Million

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

iPhone mobile game developer ng:moco managed to raise yet another ten million dollar via it's second round of funding, led by Northwest Venture Partners according to VentureBeat.

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Germany to Ban Violent Games?

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 3 Comments »

Following the shooting incident in the German city of Winnenden, Heini Schmitt (Head of the national Pollice) has fired up the discussion to ban violent games from the shelves.

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GDC: Zeemote Starts Development Contest

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Zeemote has announced their Zeemote Ready Developers Contest 2009. Established and independent publishers and developers are encouraged to submit Zeemote Ready mobile games to win $10,000 in cash as well as the opportunity to have their games delivered to customers around the world.

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Disney to Downsizing Mobile Gaming Efforts – UPDATED

March 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Strong industry rumors are flying all around about the expected end of Disney’s efforts in mobile gaming. Of course, we have taken the time to try and dig up all information we could get about it.

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Gameloft’s Full Year Results 2008

March 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has reported it's 2008 financial results. The company reached an operating income of

Nokia Closing Mosh!?

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | 1 Comment »

According to an article on Reuters, Nokia is going to close down it's MOSH portal. The portal that was all about sharing was always a thorn in the eye of the mobile games industry as it was widely used to share pirated mobile games.

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Glu & The Risk of Conversion

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

Though company remains struggling to hold their position within the changing mobile games market, one great lesson to learn is that conversion can lead to loosing money for nothing.