Lunagames Turns Into Lunaforte

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Dutch mobile games developer Lunagames is spreading it's wings. The company will be focusing more on mobile applications and services. As so, the company decided it's time to re-brand into Lunaforte.

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Appy Place Launches

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Another mobile games developer launched today. This one is called Appy Place and has laid it's focus on addicting 5 minute games for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.

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EA Mobile, Gameloft and Glu, What can Happen?

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 7 Comments »

The market seems to be shaking with rumours on the big three. It's not that strange considering Glu is still in financial problems and EA is missing several key employees in their Mobile unit.

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Former Vivendi Employees Launches Job Board

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

With loads of people hitting the streets these days, former employees of Vivendi have decided to put a new job boards on-line to help themselves and colleagues to get a new job in the (mobile) games industry.

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BulkyPix Rises from Vivendi’s Ashes

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This morning we found a brand new mobile games developer. It's name is BulkyPix. The company has been started by several formal members of the late Vivendi Games Mobile.

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More News on the Arvato Acquisition

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It took a bit of time, but we finally got our hands on an official English statement in regards to the acquisition of Arvato Mobile by Dubai based Mondia Ltd. According to Arvato, the first notices and press releases went out on December 24th.

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Microsoft Aims at Less WM Smartphones

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

One of the stranger announcements at CES 2009 came from Microsoft. At the event, the company announced that it would aim at less new Windows Mobile device releases along 2009.

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Javier Ferreira Leaves EA Mobile

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

EA Mobile's VP of European Publishing, Javier Ferreira, has left the company. With his move he follows Tim Harrison (former EU marketing manager) who left earlier in 2008.

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Android Risking Device Fragmentation

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Hardly a day goes by without the announcement of a new Android based mobile phone hitting the market. Though this sounds good at first, this strategy might bring the same problems that J2me has been facing for a long, long time.

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First View on WebOS SDK

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Over at BoyGeniusReport, the guys managed to get a first look at the WebOS SDK from Palm. The first looks clearly show that the OS is built mainly for XHTML, CSS and Javascript.