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.mobi launchday

September 26th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Today is celebration time at .mobi where their service just went live. Check out the action at .mobi.

I-Play in Tech Track 100 UK

September 26th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Our congratulations today go out to I-Play. They reached the 42nd position in the UK Tech Track 100 for their growth in sales between 2003 and 2005.

David Gosen, CEO of I-play, commented, “Being in the top 100 reflects our hard work and dedication to developing and publishing outstanding content for mobile. Our significant headway out in the States and our growing portfolio of mobile game franchises are major contributors to our success. And most recently a move into mobile video demonstrates another way in which we’re continuously looking at ways to leverage our internal technology and brand relationships to further build revenues.”

Artificial Life turns to Greystripe

September 25th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

QB pointed us to yet another victory for Greystripe as they signed Artificial Life for their advert gaming service. We wonder when we hear the first studio’s claiming the succes of this service.

ELSPA top 10 May & June

September 25th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

There seem to have been some hiccups, but finally both May and June numbers are available. While Tetris is still the overall favorite, Glu is clearly dominating the charts.

June

01 Tetris – EA Mobile
02 Worms – THQ Wireless
03 Sonic The Hedgehog: Part One – Glu
04 FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

Scout Sniper for Abandon

September 25th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Abandon Mobile has set up a partnership with the US Marine Scout/Sniper Organisation to bring games forward under their name. In return, they have deposit 15% of the sales into the organization.

"Marine snipers are an integral component in keeping our country safe, and we’re honored to be chosen as the developer and publisher behind such a unique title," said Jamie Ottilie, President and COO of Abandon Mobile. "Working with The US Marine Scout/Sniper Association helps ensure that not only is our game true-to-life, but also benefiting a great cause in supporting troops both at home and overseas."

The situation where a game is licensed from a US government body is not abnormal. We have seen it before with S.W.A.T. Sniper from InfoSpace and later the S.W.A.T. games from Vivendi Mobile.

Blog frontpage problems

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 2 Comments »

Since yesterday the blog faced some problems with the frontpage not showing up. It’s fixed now, so we are happy to see you all back at the blog and the open discussion.

Keith McCurdy makes a quick jump to COO

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 3 Comments »

Having joined Hands-On only recently as president of studios and products at Hands-On, Keith already made the jump to COO within the company. Keith will now be responsible for North-American operator sales, marketing and business development.

Jacob M?ller in Denmark’s top 10

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Our congratulations this morning go out to Jacob M?ller who has been announced to be in Denmark’s top 10 of most important entrepreneurs. The top ten list is created on an annual basis by Danish business magazine Berlingske Tidende. Jacob, who started his company Kiloo at age 19 in 2000, commented the following;

“I am delighted to be chosen as one of the top ten entrepreneurs in Denmark” says Jacob. “It means a great deal to me to be recognized in this way. The mobile entertainment sector is still a young market in many ways and to have a magazine of Berlingske’s reputation pick someone in such an emerging area shows the potential of the industry globally. Kiloo has achieved a great deal since it was founded and we plan to build on our past success. We have a great many new partnerships, deals and games to announce in the near future which will ensure Kiloo remains on the cutting edge of mobile entertainment for a long time to come.”

Kiloo hit a number of milestones like creating the first ‘Nokia OK’ game and winning the Nokia Mobile Challenge in 2002 with Popstar. Kiloo was also one of the first companies to produce branded games when they started of with their Hugo series. Later on, Kiloo created games under the licenses of the Happy Tree Friends and Lego.

The Sims hits the one million mark

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

EA Mobile announced their Sims game reached 1 million sold units in about 7 months time. Looking at the distribution of EA, which is still mainly US focused (and at the tier 1 EU channels), there is even much more potential for the game.

Open Discussion #2: Looking beyond the mobile Phone

September 22nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Open Discussions | 8 Comments »

Finally the second open discussion at the mobile games & gaming blog has started. Today the discussion will be about new devices to create your games on. The trigger for this discussion is Apple who released their iPod games which are based on J2me (correct me if I’m wrong) and Adobe who made device profiles for the iRiver MP3 player available on the FlashLite platform. What will be next (Zune?), and is this al good for us? Let us know below, no registration required!

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