Gameloft’s future is 3D
January 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | 4 Comments »
While we noticed a lot of big developers and publishers scaling down in the number of releases in 2006, Gameloft is actually working pretty hard to push out new games in 2007. Gameloft has announced it will launch 20 mobile games in 3D along 2007. At the same time, Gamloft announced it will in the future only bring high quality 3D mobile games.
Amp’d shows the numbers
January 8th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Amp’d Mobile, the content driven US based MVNO has disclosed details about their consumer base. Amp’d now serves up to 100K consumer of which 89% is postpaid. The average monthly spend on mobile games is $3.
Finesse and Javart team up for Domino Quake
January 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Thursday, Finesse and Javart announced on MobileIndustry.biz about their cooperation to distribute Domino Quake all over. Today, we discussed the fine details and future prospects with Javart Business Development Manager Angelo Rocca.
OneNine Studio’s licensed GoPets
January 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
OneNine Studios, a new mobile game developer started by people from Activision, Gameloft and Vicarious Visions announced their activities to develop the mobile version of GoPets. GoPets is an online multiplayer community that holds half a million players.
Noticing the mobile games industry
January 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Thanks to the guys at QB, we noticed a nice post on cellular-news about how the mobile games industry pulled the attention of publishers over the last years. It shows a nice increase on the expected revenues that will be made in the industry.
Mobile Advertising Firm Amobee’s second funding
January 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Amobee, the mobile advertising firm that also has solutions for mobile games, has just completed their second round of funding according to MocoNews. In this round they are expected to have raised between $ 15 million and $ 20 million. The exact amount in not disclosed though. Participats in this round where Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital who invested $ 5 million in the first round. They where joined by Globespan partners.
Trip Hawkins: DC blossomed in 2006
January 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »
The game tycoon blog did an interesting interview with Trip Hawkins about his past and present in gaming. The main bit of the interview is based around the business of Digital Chocolate. He explains 2006 was the year Digital Chocolate started to blossom as operators opened up to his original IP instead of just taking on branded mobile games. Also he noted to be doing business in 70 countries and the US isn’t a primary revenue driver for Digital Chocolate. This being said, it’s interesting to see that DC is not only doing licensing on a low level, but also approaching the market a bit differently. The interview also handles the application AvaPeeps that DC is about to launch. AvaPeeps is a social networking application that integrates with services like mySpace.
InfoSpace done with restructuring
January 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
We have covered InfoSpace a lot lately as a lot of things seem to have gone wrong in a short time what resulted in major restructuring. Though the rumours about the sale of their mobile gaming units are still in the air, InfoSpace says it’s done reorganising for now as it finished it’s lasts steps. From now on, Steve Elfman, who joined InfoSpace in 2003, will head up the mobile department and report directly to Jim Voelker, the CEO of InfoSpace since 2002. The complete announcement is here.
Orange Pixel releases Brik-Link
January 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
Clearly there is a lot of love going on between OrangePixel and the guys over at SmallFry Mobile as SmallFry choose to release yet another mobile game trough OrangePixel called Brick-Link.
Ready? Click! Pay! Go!
January 5th, 2007 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »
Arjan asked
me to do a little write-up of ClickPayGo from Chillingo seeing as we
(OrangePixel) are the first ones to start using it in Java games. So first let
me explain you what ClickPayGo actually is.
is developed and hosted by Chillingo.com the guys behind clickgamer.com, and straight
from the ClickPayGo site here is a little explanation of what it is:
is a FREE wallet/account system that allows you to re-download your purchases
at anytime, instantly. Think FREE "download insurance" and much more!”. Read more for some interesting details.
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