O.A.T.S. For Fair iPhone Reviews

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Remember the story we had last year about some territory manager at Glu that was trying to influence mobile game review results? Several iPhone sites have started a new campaign for fair reviews.

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EU Roaming Price Cuts Good for Mobile Gaming?

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Within the next three years, the European Commission hopes to cut back roaming costs for consumers. These cutbacks will not only focus on calls and SMS traffic, but also data roaming charges.

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Recession to Slowdown Market Growth

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to one of the latest reports from Juniper, the mobile content industry (and so also the mobile games industry) Will not grow as fast as expected. The only positive bit about the report? The market will still grow!

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Operators really, REALLY hate AppStores

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 7 Comments »

iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm, and now even Nokia with its
OVI. If you say AppStore, then most operators content revenues and
moods probably start shivering. Why is that? They are afraid that the
“AppStore”s, lets call them, will hit their mobile content, primarily
mobile game revenues – a lot. And yes, it’s true – they will.

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MetroStar Systems Pioneers E-Diplomacy

March 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

MetroStar Systems, Inc. announced the release of X-Life Games, a mobile game that encourages cultural exchanges between Arabic, Persian, and English speaking cultures in the American culture.

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Midway Selling Main Licenses

March 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

In order to safe the company from going bankrupt, Midway has chosen to start selling some of it's main brands to the competition. The first license it has sold was Wheelman, next one is Mortal Kombat.

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Namco Ramps up EU Business

March 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Namco Bandai Networks has started to ramp up their European mobile games business over the past few months. With main competitors shrinking or leaving the market, the timing is just right for the Japanese games publisher.

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Javaground talks about their J2me App Store

March 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 3 Comments »

Just before MWC, Javaground told us they had something special to show. When they told us it was an App Store, we were disappointed… When we got the demo, we were truly amazed by them!

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Denki Defends Android Return Policy

March 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Last week, Google's return policy was in the news because of the ease for consumers to return purchased mobile games within 24 hours. Now, Denki Games is defending this issue.

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No Commercial Android Market on Developer G1’s

March 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Some months ago we reported that Google was selling unlocked G1's to the development community so they could start creating mobile games. Now, IDG News found out that those devices are blocked from commercial Android Market titles.