Handmark to Acquire Freerange

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In order to increase their porting and distribution speed, Handmark has announced that it will acquire Freerange Communications somewhere along the next few weeks.

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Zed Wins SE Content Award 2008

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Spain based mobile entertainment company ZED has won a SonyEricsson Content Award at their 2008 contest. Their game Bubble Boom won over various non-gaming entries in the same category.

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ARM Invests in Ideaworks3D

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Around the industry, we all know that 3D games are expensive to produce, hard to port and so, hard to make real money with. Yet companies like Ideaworks3D and Fishlabs keep fighting to stay in the market. Ideaworks3D seems to be succeeding by attracting their latest investor, ARM.

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Thumbstar Signs IndiaGames (And Then it Blows!?)

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Thumbstar Games has signed an exclusive distribution contract with IndiaGames to distribute it's mobile games in several key territories for the coming 18 months.

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Two Tribes Heads to iPhone

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Dutch game developer Two Tribes has announced that it will start launching mobile games for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will start in Q1 with it's WiiWare title Toki Tori.

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Eidos and Gimme5games (Morpheme) Split

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In their efforts to become profitable again, Eidos and Matt Spell announced that Matt is buying back ownership over the Gemme5games company (formerly known as Morpheme).

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Tag Games Announces iPhone Competition

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In their mission to get their latest iPhone game, Car Jack Streets, promoted, Tag Games has announced a competition that will get the winner inside their mobile game.

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GetJar Goes Ad-Funded

February 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

There is a lot of money in ad funded games and GetJar has started to realize that as well. The company has launched a special ads programme for it's network with thousands of developers.

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Nickelodeon Enters the iPhone

February 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Nickelodeon has announced that the company will start to make use of the popularity of the iPhone. Next to streaming mobile video applications, the company will also be launching mobile games.

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Microsoft Providing Free Mobile Games

February 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Microsoft's developers have started giving away free mobile games to consumers that sign up for their Twitter feed. Now we don't know why they would like to have consumers on a dev feed, but this is clever marketing that we can learn from.