Greystripe Enters India with Zapak

November 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Thursday, Greystripe announced their second big media partnership in less than two months with Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd., India’s largest online gaming company.

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Console Boost, Uniting Mobile and Console

November 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Connected Gaming | No Comments »

With the latest instalment of EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour series, the publisher has set the first steps to connect both the mobile game as well as the console version of the 2009 edition.

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Mobile Gambling Market Set to Boom in 2013

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 2 Comments »

According to Juniper’s latest mobile gambling report, that market is set to grow all the way up to $ 27.5 billion by 2013 due to law, attitude and UI changes.

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EA Food for Acquisition!?

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Could EA be bought? That is a question on the mind of MocoNews earlier this week. They looked at various situations in which EA could end up as property of other multinationals.

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XENDEX and I-Play Announce Exclusive Flatout Mobile Deal

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Xendex and I-Play go back a long time. Ever since the first Freestyle Motocross games have hit the decks, Xendex was responsible for a lot of mobile gaming hits.

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Namco Releases Rolling with Katamari

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Without doubt, katamari has been one of the most talked about console games that never really managed to hit Europe. Now, Namco is bringing the game Rolling with Katamari exclusively to mobile.

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Realtime Associates Releases Soul Trapper on App Store

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Using tracks from the iPhone within mobile games has never been a real problem to developers. Yet Realtime Associates has set up a totally new experience with their Soul Trapper game.

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Glu: The Call, The Numbers, The Problems…

November 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 8 Comments »

Not only Glu's financial results for Q3 came to light, the company also had their quarterly earnings call in which a lot of questions popped up. We took a closer look and also asked several people to submit their (anonymous) expectations on what will happen to the mobile gaming giant.

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Financials: Glu’s Q3 2008

November 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu (GLUU) opened up their Q3 financials. Many sources have already covered it, so this post will just contain the most important parts of the official release. In the next post, we will discuss the earnings call and sum up the most interesting bits of the company that opened today at $ 0.75 and last traded at $ 0.66 as we write this article.

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Gameloft Licenses Spiderman and Iron Man

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 1 Comment »

Gameloft announced an exclusive multi-year, multi-product mobile game licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment. The agreement commences in 2009 with mobile games based upon the comic book adventures of Spider-Man, as well as a mobile game based upon Iron Man 2, 2010's blockbuster sequel to the $570 million worldwide box office smash.