Artificial Life Licenses BMW

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hong Kong based mobile games developer and publisher Artificial Life has again signed a very interesting licence. This time, the company managed to get their hands on the BMW brand.

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Glu Goes D2C (Again)

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

In the good old days, there was a very powerful platform on the market called Provision X. It was created by a company called MacroSpace and held a series of options most competitors dreamt about…

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Nokia Starts N-Gage Promotions in Holland

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

In big markets like the UK, Nokia's N-Gage platform has been promoted to the press for some time. Now, Nokia's press agency in The Netherlands has also started to create press awareness in the hope to create awareness for the platform in The Netherlands.

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Netsize Received Penalties over Content Subscriptions

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Netsize has received several penalties in The Netherlands last week for collecting money via “dirty” SMS campaigns. The penalties are expected to damage the company's position in the Dutch market.

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IGF Finalists Announced

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

This industry has two big awards that everybody seems to want to join in on these days. One is the good old IMGA, the other is, the still fairly new, IGF Awards. That last one announced the list of this year's finalists today.

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Apple Receives Multi-Touch Patent

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The internet seems to have exploded today as nearly every tech news website is reporting on Apple's latest patent. The company has managed to patent it's excellent mult-touch technology.

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Flurry Signs 300 Developers for it’s Free Analytics Service

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Flurry started the New Year with over 300 developers using its free service within the first 60 days of going Beta. Flurry is now making available its free service to all iPhone, Android, Blackberry and J2me.

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AdMob goes Deeper into Android

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Mobile game developers can now also choose to sell AndroidOS based mobile games AND earn money with mobile advertising. Admob has set up a totally new unit to make this possible.

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Fennec to Launch on Windows Mobile

January 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

It seems that FireFox is finally launching it's mobile browser on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. With this launch, all three major browsers will be available on the platform. What will this mean for mobile games?

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Windows Skymarket Launching at MWC

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

According to several sources on the web, Microsoft will announce it's App Store rival “Skymarket” on the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcalona. This means that the launch is about a month away.