Finblade Releases WordSearch, Movie Quiz and Tennis Slam on Android

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

FinBlade announced the release of three titles for Google's Android platform. WordSearch, Movie Quiz and Tennis Slam initially launched on the App Store this summer and are now available for Android via Handango’s store.

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EA Releases FIFA 09 on N-Gage

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | 2 Comments »

EA Mobile announced the release of EA Sports FIFA 09 for the Nokia N-Gage Platform. FIFA 09 supports smoother, simplified gameplay and a host of options for sharing and comparing team performance with other players through Nokia’s N-Gage Arena.

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Cave Bear Releases Jumble! Xmas on App Store

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

With their first iPhoneOS game “Jumble!” live for just over a week, Cave bear has already released a Christmas themed successor to their casual mobile game.

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Mobile Audio Blues

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

I am noticing a trend among mobile game
developers today. Many of the commercial games out there offer
screenshots as well as a sample video of the gameplay. The problem
is that these videos usually have the sound completely removed!
Sometimes there will be higher resolution music placed in the demo to
promote the game, but it usually is thrown in at the last minute and
has no relevance to the movement on the screen.

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MGB Back in a few days

November 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | 3 Comments »

Dear readers,

Though we tried to keep you updated this week, I lack the time a bit as I have to do all kinds of preparations for my birthday tomorrow. As so, MGB will be back around Tuesday, when we will first recap on the most important news bits of the past few days (and hope to have the Interview with Greg Ballard back).

Mpowerplayer Launches the Mplayit Portal

November 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

Mpowerplayer announced the launch of Mplayit.com, a new Web portal for consumers interested in finding out more about mobile games. Mplayit features free mobile game demos with the ability to learn about games and publishers, read reviews, purchase games and to add and share the Mplayit widget anywhere online.

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Mogees Enables Android Payments

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Though Google announced that billing mobile game sales for Android isn't possible before early 2009, a company called Mogees has just announed an SDK to at least offer some sort of billing.

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China Mobile Plans Own App Store

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 1 Comment »

One of the biggest operators in the world is without doubt China Mobile. It is that operator that has now chosen to start developing their own version of the App Store in order to further stimulate mobile gaming uptake.

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Sulake Wins Nokia Award

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Nokia Foundation has granted its 2008 award to Aapo Kyr

Gameloft Wins GSM Asia Award

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Gameloft Korea has won an award at the GSM Asia 2008 conference. Having offices and studios all around the globe is clearly a great way to win multiple prizes.