MWC: Nokia Opens Ovi App Store

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Lately we came across many rumours saying that Nokia would be launching an App Store concept in order to compete with Apple's. Today, the company unveiled it's plans for the Ovi store.

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MGB and MWC

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

The coming days, MGB will be filled with news from the Mobile World Congress (we actually started covering it Sunday night already). Yet we will not be in Barcelona ourselves…

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MWC: Gamelosft Sells 200.000.000

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Over at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mobile games publisher Gameloft has announced that the company has managed to sell over two hundred million mobile games since the start in 2003.

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MWC: Zeemote Promotes “Mobile Console Gaming”

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Over at the Mobile World Congress, Zeemote is promoting what they call the next significant step in Mobile-Console Gaming, or MCG. This means combining a TV-out based phone and one or two Zeemotes for a home console experience.

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MWC: Vodafone Essar Outsources Mobile Games Portal to End2End

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Vodafone Essar (the Vodafone branch located in India) has announced that platform provider End2End will be their exclusive platform provider for their mobile games portal.

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IGF Finalists Announced

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The Independent Games Festival has announced the mobile game developers that have been selected for their “Next Great Mobile Game” category at the IGF Awards.

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Sun Launches JavaFX

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: JavaFX | No Comments »

Sun has released it's brand new (and long awaited) mobile OS called JavaFX. With the OS, the company opens developers a full native Java experience on mobile phones.

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Midway Files for Chapter 11

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Midway had just been sold a few months back and recently announced their iPhone games, the (mobile) games publisher has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection late last week.

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MWC: SonyEricsson Takes Entertainment Unlimited Proposition on Content

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has launched a new content initiative called Entertainment Unlimited. This new content proposition should enable the company to compare with Nokia's Ovi services and Apple's App Store.

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Android Goes Commercial

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It was to be expected, but just before the week of the Mobile World Congress 2009 starts, Google is opening it's payment options to mobile game developers and publishers in the UK and the US.