Eidos Confirms Acquisition of Morpheme
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
We announced it already last Friday but today it became official, Eidos acquired Morpheme Wireless Ltd in order to expand and strengthen their mobile division.
17% of Girls Play Before Going to Bed According to NTT DoCoMo
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
NTT Docomo has presented a small research amongst 900 of their mobile
gaming service consumers in regards to when they play. Half of this
group was below 16 years of age and the group was equally divided in
girls and boys.
FTC: Mobile Games Industry is Still Unrated
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »
In their latest report, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaints about the content regulation in the mobile gaming industry. Primarily the US based FTC is concerned about the type of games which are available to public below 17 years of age.
Smart Box Releases Word Monaco and Farkle Dice
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Smart Box Design has announced the release of two new mobile games. The
games; Word Monaco Solitaire and Farkle Dice, are build for windows
mobile devices.
Mobile Amusements Releases Tommy Gun
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Mobile Amusements has just announced the release of their latest game called Tommy Gun. Tommy Gun is one of the first titles which has been released from the back catalog of Amiga games which are owned by the company Software Amusements.
KDDI’s Success on Brew Reaches 160 Million Downloads
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »
Qualcomm has announced a new milestone in their Brew strategy as Japanese operator KDDI has distributed 160 million Brew based mobile games and applications since the launch of the service.
Capcom Announced Their New Line-Up
April 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »
During their annual Gamers Day event, Capcom Interactive president
Midori Yuasa has announced several new mobile games that are currently
in development and meant to be launched late 2007 / early 2008.
Nazara Releases Rounders Poker
April 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Another movie based mobile poker game enters the arena as Nazara Technologies releases Rounders Poker which is based in the 1998 Mirramax movie that featured Matt Damon.
Gameloft Inks Samuel Eto’o For Underground Street Soccer
April 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Gameloft has signed yet another athlete to star in one of their many sports games. With real Soccer performing well, Gameloft has scheduled Samuel Eto’o for their upcoming Underground Street Soccer mobile game.
Consumers Don’t Want In-Game Advertisements
April 13th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »
Our friends over at QuicklyBored have gathered some studies about mobile in-game advertising and came to the concussion it is unwanted by consumers as they are not used to it as much as with the current TV landscape. Read the full thing for all details.
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