M-Biz Hits 10X Industry Average Conversion Rate

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

M-Biz Global announced that about 50% of EU consumers with mobile phones, (That hold their Try n Buy Software), purchase a mobile game. This is above the 5% average figure from operator portals and other WAP sites.

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Progressive Media Reveales RocketFuel

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Progressive Media has unveiled RocketFuel, their complete development platform tailored to meet the needs of developers and publishers targeting a wide range of devices across multiple platforms.

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Developers and Publishers Praise iPhone v3.0

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | 2 Comments »

Over at PocketGamer, Stuart has been working hard to get the first reactions on the new iPhone OS v3.0 firmware update. Below, we gathered some of the most interesting bits of them.

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Fennec Reaches Beta Stage

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Mozilla's mobile browser “Fennec” has reached Beta stage. This means that the new mobile browser is nearly ready for it's first stable release. Time for platform owners to prepare themselves!

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Sony to Acquire SonyEricsson?

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

The latest industry rumours say that Ericsson is interested in selling it's share of SonyEriccson to JV partner Sony. Does this mean that the much rumoured PSP phone will come anyway?

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iPhoneOS v3.0 Presented to the Press

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has revealed iPhone OS v3.0 to the US press today. We checked numerous sources and compiled the items that are important to the mobile game development community.

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PNY Relaunches EA microSD Card Offering

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

PocketGamer features an interesting story about a memory company called PNY. That company is selling EA branded micro SD cards which provide the buyer access to a free mobile game from EA Mobile.

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admob to Introduce iPhone App Exchange

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

The developers at admob must have listened well to those in the industry that are bothered with the limited possibilities to market their own mobile games that are in the Apple iTunes store.

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MMCC Barcodes, a new Delivery System?

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Most of you probably know that QR Barcodes can hold loads on information like URL's and personal contact data. Scientists at the Edith Cowan University are taking the technology to a new level that might be very interesting for innovative developers.

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Exit Games Releases new Cross-Platform Multiplayer Engine

March 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Multiplayer Gaming | No Comments »

Exit Games announced their fastest multiplayer engine for PC, Mac, browsers and mobile devices called Photon. It allows players to compete against each other on a various gaming platforms.