Motorola and I-Play Offer Developer Challenge
February 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
Motorola and I-Play have announced their plans for setting up a mobile games development challenge. There will be two technological categories in which contestants will battle for glory and a publishing deal with I-Play, a briefcase of Motorola handsets (I hope without packaging) and a set of I-Play games. The first category is best J2me game for the KRZR K1 and the sec0ond is the best windows mobile game for Motorola’s Q series of devices. Submissions to the contest are open until August 10th. The judges will be from both Motorola and I-Play as well as external partners.
Ozura Releases Hotlink Warriors
February 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Ozura and Maxis have launched their Hotlink Warriors mobile community game. The full press release about this project is below.
Kitmaker Releases Mobi-Lover Series
February 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Mobile lifestyle games are getting more important and Kitmaker clearly jumps into this market with their Mobi-Lovers series. The series consists of a male and female version that interact with the player. The full press release is pasted below.
Herocraft Releases Kamikaze 2: The Way Of Monk
February 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »
Herocraft just released their newest RPG called Kamikaze 2: The Way Of Monk. With ten quests at ten locations, the game offers a decent amount of playtime. As always, the full press release is pasted below.
Q&A with Michael Guillemot – President and CEO, Gameloft
February 19th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 2 Comments »
Recently, Gameloft has hit our headlines a lot. Time for us to have a Q&A with Michael Guillemot, President and CEO of Gameloft, about the future of his company.
Ronaldinho’s Mobile Bubble Bobble Adventures
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Spanish developer LemonQuest has released their games based on the Ronaldinho license. LemonQuest truly shows how to use a license at fullest as they delivered a huge diversity of games. As you can expect, there is a regular football game, but we have also seen conversions of Tetris, Zuma and Bubble Bobble. This remembers me of the adult mobile gaming industry where the same thing often happens.
THQ’s 2007 Release List
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
THQ has released a list of licenses that will be turned into mobile games this year. One of the main licenses will be LEGO Batman. LEGO Batman is the second LEGO franchise acquired by THQ while Danish developer Kiloo still owns the general and Bionicle LEGO licenses.
3GSM: The Industry Needs to Address Key Issues
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »
Gunnar Larson, director of mobile games at Real Networks held his keynote at 3GSM about the problems when it comes to customer satisfaction when purchasing mobile games. Right now, only 4 out of 100 consumers returns to buy a second game. This means from every 100 sales, 96 of them are not compelling enough for consumers to value mobile gaming. This means quality has to improve on operator decks and we as an industry should help out on this. A way to stimulate returning consumers is by offering ‘try and buy’ versions of our games.
OrangePixel Releases Akira*Hero
February 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
OrangePixel just released Akira*Hero, a follow-up to the successful Dynamo Kid series of mobile games. Spread over three worlds with over 30 secrets to be discovered, OrangePixel hopes to have released another hard to let go game. The game will be distributed shortly and also be available on GameJump.
Namco Launches Scene It? Movie Edition
February 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
Namco has released “Scene It? Movie Edition”. With well over a thousand questions related to movies, this is one of the biggest movie related quiz games around. The game originated from DVD. In the conversion they picked out the top categories from the original.
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