Nokia and Singtel Announce Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 Winners
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Nokia and Singtel announced the winners of their Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 challenge amongst Nokia Forum members. Within the female mobile games segment, the following winners where announced:
GDC: N-Gage 2.0
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »
At GDC, Nokia made fresh announcements around their second edition of the N-Gage mobile gaming platform. Amongst these announcements are the list of developers, titles they are working on and tools for developers.
GDC: Age of Empires, From In-Fusio to Glu
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Sometimes it feels like there is no end to the bad news that strikes In-Fusio lately. After starting their legal fight with Microsoft over Halo, all Microsoft licenses went straight into Glu‘s portfolio. Age of Empires III is no exception to this rule and follows licenses like PGR.
HandsOn to Increase on Blackberry
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »
HandsOn announced to increase support for Blackberry devices as they signed up for a deal with Bplay. Bplay is one of the most important channels for Blackberry entertainment content.
Latin American Mobile Games Market Unveiled
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
EJL Wireless revealed some data about the Latin-American mobile games market. Along 2006, the market represented $ 65 million in mobile game sales. EJL expects the market to grow to a value of $ 195 million by 2011.
Deal or no Deal a Massive Hit in The UK
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Gameloft’s smallest license when it comes to territory seems to pay off well as Deal or no Deal rules the sales charts in the UK. Released in November 2006, the game boosted right into the first spot on the operators and stayed there for three months.
Glu Co-Founder Starts D2C Games
March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Scott Orr, co-founder of Sorrent (now Glu) has announced the line-up of his new game development studio last week called D2C Games. The focus of his products will be on social gaming and episodic content for PC, Consoles and mobile phones.
Mike Yuen’s Utopia in Game Design
March 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
In an open letter to developers at QB, Mike Yuen discusses innovation in connected / multi platform games. Now, I have seen great multi platform games in Korea that connect PC and Mobile games, but Mike Yuen takes it a bit further with technologies like GPS. A great piece of reading material in my opinion.
4.5 Million Games a Month in Korea
March 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
Ovum reports a steady number of 4.5 million mobile games downloads take place every month in Korea. The mobile game downloads have a value of $ 200 million a month in both the costs for the game, as well as the traffic charges. Traffic accounts for 39.7% of the revenue, which shows either how expensive data charges are, or more probable, the popularity of connected gaming in Korea. If this figure is compared with the number of consumers in the networks, it shows 12% of the consumers buys a game every month.
Nokia Selects Glu for Publishing N-Gage Titles
March 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »
Nokia and Glu announced a partnership to publish games for the new
N-Gage platform that Nokia will launch later this year. Glu and Nokia
will kick-off their cooperation with World Series of Poker Texas
Hold’em.
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