Sandlot Goes D2C With Movaya

November 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Sandlot For many developers, going D2C with their mobile games is a dream as it is the ultimate way to kill a big part of the sales costs, but visitors often lack and so turnovers are very small. For Sandlot however, D2C might become a very important channel.

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MobilityZone Releases Crazy Frog Racer (3D)

November 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Mobilityzone_2 MobilityZone announced the release of their first game under the Crazy Frog brand called Crazy Frog Racing. The mobile game is also available in a full 3D version.

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OrangePixel Releases Druid and 7th Space

November 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

OrangePixel has announced two new fresh games; Druid and 7th Space. Two games filled with magic and mysterious creatures, both developed by Gidax.

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The Crazy Frog, From Jamba to Mobility Zone

November 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Licenses seem to swarm all over the industry at the moment as the most recent shift has taken place between Jamba and Mobility Zone. Yes, The Crazy Frog, or The Annoying Thing has shifted ownership.

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Acme Mobile Expands

November 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Acmemobile Acme Mobile is growing and so the company announced two expansions of the company. Acme is opening a new office and is expanding the management team at the same time.

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Gameplay: Operator Wizzl Launches

November 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Wizzl At the Gameplay event last friday, Wizzl launched. Wizzle is a Skype like VOIP service, but is an official operator and is preparing to launch also on mobile.

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Gameplay: Floor Report

November 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Gameplaynl The Gameplay event in The Netherlands is probably one of the smallest and least interesting events to the mobile industry on a global scale but still it made us curious to see if and how mobile will be present as for The Netherlands it is the most important gameshow.

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U.S. Market Goes Smarty

November 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Npdgroup For many developers and publishers, the U.S. is the primary market to conquer with mobile games and applications. Recent NPD research results show the amount of smartphones in the market is growing and so the possibility to sell native mobile games.

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Ojom Releases Magnum P.I.

November 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Ojom Magnum P.I. Is back and this time the crime scene is on your mobile phone according to developer Ojom who celebrated the release of the mobile game today.