Jamba not Rebranding due to Economic Climate

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Last October, New Corp bought the remaining Jamba shares from Verisign. Following the purchase, the company announced that it would re-organize and re-brand it's mobile offering. Now, the company announced that the change of strategy is delayed to to the economic climate.

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Metaflow Adds Analytics

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

As most of you know, Metaflow is one of the biggest distribution platforms for mobile games. In order to expand their services, the company has added new analytic functionality called “Reporting on Demand”.

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2008 Best (and worst) PR Contact Award

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

With everybody handing out awards for the best mobile games, we thought it's time to put somebody else in the spotlights. For the first time ever, we praise the best and worst PR person we met in the mobile games industry in 2008!

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BestAppEver Award Winners

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

Last week, the winners of the BestAppEver 2008 awards where praised. This award is purely focussed at the iPhone offering and covered pretty much every category. Here are the gaming winners!

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Palm’s Nova Transforms into WebOS

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

Following several announcements about a new OS from Palm, called Nova, the company finally unveiled it at CES 2009. Surprisingly, the new OS is now known as WebOS.

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Zumobi Brings Xbox to Mobile

January 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The company has readied a new application for both BlackBerry, iPhoneOS and Windows Mobile owners that enables gamers to track the latest Xbox 360 news on their mobile phones.

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iGames Summit, a Specialist Event for iPhone

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

While Apple's App Store is still growing (and iPhone owners are still limited to downloading 148 apps), some smart event organizers in the U.S. decided to setup a dedicated business event called iGames.

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Immersion Brings Tactile Feedback to Android

January 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Great news for those that want to try and include the latest technologies in their mobile games. The Immersion Corporation has announced that VibeTonz, their Touch Feedback system, is ready to launch on AndroidOS.

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PocketGamer’s 2008 N-Gage Chart

January 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Following the success of their 2008 charts, PocketGamer has also sorted out a list of the best N-Gage games of 2008. What's up next? We bet on the iPhone or Android charts.

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Skiller Games Launches into Mobile Games

January 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »

You take a set of evergreens (chess, connect 4 etc) and mix them with a gaming platform in which players can compete with each other. Yes, newbie Skiller-Games aims at millions with their new platform.