Asia-Pacific market set to double by 2010
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
VNUnet has put an article online in which Analyst and research firm In-Stat has announced the Asia-Pacific’s turnover on mobile games will be twice the size it is today by 2010. However they also warn about revenues that might not rise as fast. Main issues for this are piracy and fragmentation in the revenue schemes used.
Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti’s holiday give-away
November 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »
Clickgamer and Binary Graffiti have teamed up for the holidays and announced to give away 7 different mobile games to clickgamer customers and visitors. Clickgamer hopes to boost sales for the holiday period and attract new customers.
Carnival of the Mobilists #54
November 23rd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
It’s that time again, and this time it’s at Golden Swamp. Yes, it’s time for the Carnival of the mobilists number 54!
Did Wii blow it?
November 22nd, 2006 by Pascal Besteboer Posted in Games | 2 Comments »
If you are a fan of their cute and cuddly games or not, nobody can deny that Nintendo is currently at the front of gameing entertainment inovation. With the Nintendo DS they already showed that there is great interest amongst "non-gamers" of all ages and genders. Now they have released their Wii system and it should have every game-designer clapping his hands and stamping his feet like a little kid.
What this has to do with mobile games? well guess what, we already had all those non-gamers, we already had a device screaming for new creative game concepts and controls, and we blew it!
Luckily it is not to late, so read on
iPhone commercial
November 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
So, will it be called the Apple iTalk!?
Oberon Media acquires Blaze
November 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Rumors around Blaze have been hanging in the air for a few months, but now it’s final. Blaze has been bought by Oberon Media. This strategic purchase expands Oberon in the mobile games market. According to the press release, Oberon will even try to offer casual PC games. I’m more interested though to see if Oberon will mobilise it’s flash games trough Blaze’s contracts with the operators. What is clear at this moment, is that the name Blaze will stop to exsist as the blaze.com website has been rebranded to Oberon media. For those who don’t know blaze, here’s the background;
HandyGames brings another unique game
November 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Today, HandyGames released LiftBoy. LiftBoy follows in the range of original games like Porn Manager and Beershooter. As a liftboy, your task is not only to bring your passengers to the right floor in the least amount of time, but also to do some smooth talking to earn tips. The game is stuffed with unique wacky characters ranging from hot waitresses to half naked managers.
InfoSpace’s mobile strategy
November 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
As most of you know, InfoSpace has closed the Elkware Studio earlier this year and their Q3 report ended with the following message;
"We’ve taken quick action to address the disappointing loss of business, aligning costs with future revenues to continue building on the strong foundation we have in mobile technology and online and mobile discovery," said Jim Voelker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of InfoSpace, Inc.
Unfortunately, Jim Voelker’s closing statement says nothing about mobile games or content. The $ 57.8 million restructuring charges has the following breakdown according to MocoNews;
Gameloft broadens in Korea
November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »
Often people think Gameloft is anywhere
Bango rolls over Mediaplazza
November 20th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »
MediaPlazza and Bango inked a deal in which Bango will take responsibility for a big part of MediaPlazza’s billing. With this deal, Bango adds 60.000 mobile content stores to it’s network. For MediaPlazza, this deal means access to wap billing all over the world with just one partner and the possibility on many operators to use Bango’s BillRank, which is a method for putting the content directly on the consumer’s bill. Bango will also accept Craditcards trough PayPal, meaning Bango offers the full scale of payment methods.
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