GDC: ARM Releases ARM Mali SDK

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

ARM has released a new version of its ARM Mali SDK. The SDK allows developers to have their game graphics ready at the moment a new handset reaches the shelves. The full press release is listed below.

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Exit Games Received $ 4.6 Million Funding

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments led the latest funding round for
German multiplayer company Exit Games. In this latest round of funding,
Exit Games received $ 4.6 million from their investors which also
include Neuhaus Partners and SMAC partners.

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Herocraft Releases Bird Flu

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Herocraft has released a nice new casual game called bird flu. Though the screen shots where a bit puzzling to me as to how this game really plays, the trailer on the website made it all clear and obvious that herocraft has released a great original casual mobile game.

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GDC: Nokia Jumps into In-Game Advertising

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Nokia announced to release two services into the market if mobile
advertising. Nokia Ad Service is a fully managed platform for
advertisers to target the mobile services and applications like mobile
games. It allows ad networks to deploy, manage and optimize mobile
advertising campaigns.

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Zelfi, Another Ad-Funded Mobile Games Portal Launches

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

In German speaking countries like Austria, Switzerland and of course Germany itself, Zelfi has already been operating on the free mobile games market for over 12 months and has now chosen to introduce itself to the English speaking world. At first sight, Zelfi doesn’t seem to use wrapper technologies. Instead, programmers have to insert ad breaks into the code themselves, meaning the game is paused to show them.

GDC: Day 1

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Since we are stuck here in rainy Holland, our GDC coverage is a bit limited to the standard press information we receive over the days. The boys from QB however are really close to the fire and described their impressions of the first day at GDC.

Amob February Chart

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The February edition of Amob‘s salescharts reached our mailbox this morning, showing a top 10 which is slowly getting dominated by branded mobile games, though non-branded games still show excellent results.

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US Q4 06 Mobile Game Downloads Worth $ 151 Million

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research company Telephia released details about mobile game downloads in the US for the fourth quarter of 2006. The research shows that the value of downloads has increased to $ 151 million which is an increase of 61% in comparison with the fourth quarter 2005.

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GDC: Gameloft Announced Full N-Gage Line-Up

March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

With the Nokia press releases just submitted, Gameloft already followed up with details about their titles for the new N-Gage mobile games platform. Though most of the titles don’t form a real surprise, they do lift the expectations further.

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GDC: Trip Hawkin’s Keynote

March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

The guys from QB have landed at the GDC and are reporting live from the event. They have created an overview of Trip Hawkin’s Keynote. Visit the link to read all about it.

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