Greystripe Triggers 140 Million Downloads

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

According to TechCrunch, Greystripe has triggered 140 ad-funded mobile game downloads. The majority of it's growth is coming from the iPhone adwrap client that the company made available in 2008.

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N-Gage Player Awards

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

This year, Nokia's N-Gage decided to honour the most outstanding mobile game players. With the awards, Nokia is further stimulating it's fans to promote the mobile games service.

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Informa: “The handset market is facing a difficult period “

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

The handset market is facing a difficult period according to analyst Informa. As handset sales stagnate, the mobile games sector is expected to be influenced negatively as well.

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Mozilla Fennec Live

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Last week, we wrote about the upcoming launch of Fennec. Yesterday, we noticed that the new mobile browser for Windows Mobile devices is available as aplha version.

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SGN about Wii Experience via iPhone and Web

February 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

SGN had some success last week as they managed to write a guest editorial on Facebook's official blog. SGN took this opportunity to inform consumers on their iFun game/application for the iPhone.

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Apple Planning Premium Games Channel – UPDATED

January 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

There is a new rumour spreading amongst mobile game developers. According to them, some of the bigger publishers have been invited to open a new channel for premium iPhoneOS games which will be priced at $ 19,99.

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THQ Wireless (not) Shutting Down – FINAL UPDATE!

January 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 3 Comments »

Over the past years, THQ Wireless had a lot of trouble to hold their position in the market. They have seen big competitors like Eidos and Vivendi enter and leave the market. Now it seems it's THQ who is kicking the bucket.

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Gameloft’s Q4 Financial Results

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft is the first this year to show it's fourth quarter financials. The company managed to increase it's year-on-year revenues with 31%. Not bad during times of recession.

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SillySoft Made $ 140K With Their iPhone Game

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Vancouver based developer has opened up the financial books on their iPhone adventures with Lux DLS. Lux DLS is without doubt a great example of a small and original game that hits the big public.

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Dynamo Games Start it’s Own Sports Brand – UPDATED

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Dynamo Games has kicked off their latest series of mobile sports games based on a new, own brand. With the brand, it hopes that consumers recognize the developer and quality of it's sports games.