Minick acquired by Swisscom Mobile AG

December 4th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Swisscom announced it has purchased 100% of the Minick shares. Minick, formerly 50% owned by THQ Inc., is a specialist in platforms and aggregation of mobile content and games. The purchase allows Swisscom to expand into closely related business area’s. Financials where not disclosed. For now Swisscom does not plan any changes within Minick.

Cellufun’s numbers

December 3rd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »

The guys at Cellufun (the other ad-subsidized free mobile games service) have released some numbers exclusively to us last weekend. On the background, we can say that Cellufun at this moment only sells it’s own titles which is impressive to me.

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Tomb Raider Mobile in full 3D

December 3rd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Eidos Mobile announced it will release Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider: Legend” on mobile phones this December. The game will be close to a full port of the 2006 console version, meaning a lot of attention for cut-scenes and movement. For UK gamers, the game will only be available on Orange, but the rest of the world shouldn’t face any embargo’s on the game. Please read the full press release below.

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Vodafone into ad-subsidized gaming?

December 1st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

According to The Wallstreet Journal, Vodafone will use mobile content discounts in order to stream ads to mobile consumers. This follows on the deal where Vodafone and Yahoo committed themselves to distribute ad’s from the Yahoo network toward Vodafone consumers. By providing discounts on mobile content, users need to agree on the ad service.

Mobile Game Video’s

December 1st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | 2 Comments »

Thanks to a tip, this morning we where suprised by the YouTube page of the NeXt Group. This guy has spend his time on putting video footage of mobile games online. Ideal for Content Managers who lack time to play every game they find in their inbox.

OrangePixel dominates GameJump top 10

November 30th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 2 Comments »

OrangePixel has generated enourmous successes at Gamejump where they now dominate the most played top 10. OrangePixel has managed to have 5 most played games in there. The original press release is pasted below.

Edited 1-12-2006;
– not 10 but 5 games in the top 10
– not most downloaded but most played

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Lunagames launches the SuperQ service

November 29th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | 1 Comment »

Lunagames has launched their SuperQ service. Their service allows any company to quickly create mobile quiz applications which are fully customizable. Next to the quick creation of these Quiz applications, they can also provide delivery of the game to allow a quick time to market.

We have asked Richard Hanzenberg from Lunagames the following questions;

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Nokia Forum Pro Award, the winners are

November 29th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Nokia’s Forum Pro winners have been announced in Amsterdam today. The winner of the best mobile game this year is TelcoGames. They have won with their “The Silhouette game“. Congratulations guys!

Disney turns to casual

November 29th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

If there is one company that is expected to be very aware of it’s consumers, it’s probably Disney. Today they have released their 3-in-1 puzzle pack. The pack contains three of the most common mobile games we have seen pass by the last few years; Solitaire, Sudoku and Mahjongg. With this title, Disney offers a high value puzzle game as most of these games are normally sold separately.

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