Apple’s App Store Passes 500m Downloads

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The rise of the App Store still seems far from over. According to the company, the App Store has served over 500 million downloads for iPhone and iPod Touch consumers world-wide.

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AllAboutiPhone Calls for Folders

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys over at AllAboutiPhone have written an editorial about the frustrations of the iPhone's limit to install only 148 applications. An annoying limit that has been described on a lot more blogs around the net.

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Handango Celebrates it’s 10th Birthday

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Handango has all reasons to celebrate. The popular mobile games and applications portal exists 10 years and so it revamped it's website in the hope to continue for at least another ten years in the business.

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Probability Games and Hasbro into Mobile Gambling

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hasbro has signed a deal with Probability Gaming to turn four of their primary brands into mobile gambling games. Under the games is the true evergreen 'Connect 4'.

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SE’s PlayNow brings Mobile Games to the Shops

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

In Asia, SonyEricsson has started a new content offensive. The company is selling PlayNow content, including mobile games, directly via a dedicated, automated sales unit called a 'Download Kiosk'.

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iPhone Browser Fragmentation

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the first days of the iPhone, a lot of developers created wab based games. Mainly as the Safari browser offered them a lot of additional freedom when it comes to scripting. Now it seems not every iPhone user will be able to utilize those possibilities any more.

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N-Gage Magazine Promotions

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

Consumers who live in the UK and buy the latest official Xbox 360 magazine will be surprised to find an N-Gage voucher which allows one free download from Nokia's gaming service.

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PlayPhone Appoints Kate Berry for EMEA

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

In an effort to increase it's footprint in the EMEA market, U.S. based mobile content distribution firm PlayPhone has appointed their business developer Kate Berry as it's new general manager EMEA.

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Javaground Brings J2me to iPhoneOS Conversion

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Javaground's Xpress Suite is not only a development and porting solution for J2me, but the tool also helps J2me developers to port their mobile games directly onto Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

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CEO Vincent Dondaine about BulkyPix

January 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | No Comments »

Yesterday we informed you about a new mobile games developer called BulkyPix. Since there wasn't a press release, and the website is still pretty much blank, we contacted CEO Vincent Dondaine to do a small interview.