Java Adapter, The Pirate’s Toolkit

February 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Some Russian developer has created a sort of porting tool for consumers that are unhappy about the low resolution of the mobile games they bought / the lack of touch screen support.

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PreDevCamp Announced

February 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

PreDevCamp is an upcoming non-profit gathering to develop applications for Palm Pre using both the Mojo SDK and traditional web standards. The organizers have planned the event in 60 cities around the world.

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N-Gage Interview with Mark Ollila

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 4 Comments »

After multiple delays, 2008 seems to have been the most important year in N-Gage history when it launched the N-Gage concept as a platform instead of dedicated mobile gaming hardware. Since the year has come close to an end, we asked Nokia’s Mark Ollila on what’s to expect next.

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Financials: EA (Mobile)

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

THQ isn't the only company that suffered bad financial result last quarter. EA has taken a loss of $ 641 million and will also slim down in order to make their company healthy again.

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Vodafone NL’s App Store isn’t BetaVine

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Yesterday we announced that today would be the big day that Vodafone NL would launch it's own app store with the aim to increase data consumption from it's subscribers. Today we look at the surprising result.

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Mobile Gaming Hits the Walls

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

At MGB, we are always happy to see new initiatives that improve the mobile gaming experience. One of those new initiatives is based on pico projectors. Specialist Gert Meyer has wrote up a story on how they best fit into this market.

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Mouse Panic! Hits iPhone

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

We are skipping new releases lately (lack of time), but as Adrian Cummings reminded me, Mouse Panic! is something different. It was THE title that Adrian used to introduce hit company to me in my Overloaded days.

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iBetaTest.com, a new Service for QA Testing

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

There is a new QA service for iPhone developers. Through iBetaTest.com, developers can make available their mobile games to voluntary consumers (that hopefully don't own a copy of Crackulous).

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SonyEricsson and EA Team Up

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

SonyEricsson and EA are teaming up in the UK in order to bring exclusive packages in which mobile phones are stuffed with mobile games. Carphone Warehouse has the exclusivity.

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Financials: THQ (Wireless) 3rd Quarter

February 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

THQ has released their financial data which, as expected, was not that positive. The company needs, and will do more then just slim down their wireless unit in order to be healthy again.