O2 Toons Up Its Games Arcade With Cartoon Network Mobile
July 24th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Games | No Comments »
Cartoon Network today announced the UK network launch of its growing catalogue of mobile games featuring Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, The Powerpuff Girls and a whole host of its other world famous characters on O2. Cartoon Network’s mobile games and content has been developed and published in partnership with Macrospace, the mobile games specialist. More …
Press release: THE FERNANDO ALONSO VIDEOGAME ON ‘MOVISTAR EMOCI
July 23rd, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Games, Research & Stats | No Comments »
Madrid, 19 July.- Fernando Alonso, the Spanish driver for the Renault Formula 1 team, presented Fernando Alonso Racing, a videogame for mobile phones, today at the Karting Carlos Sainz track in Madrid. The game is offered exclusively on ‘MoviStar emoci
CEO Ollila says Nokia’s ‘sisu’ will see it past tough times
July 22nd, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
In times like these, the executives who run Nokia talk up a uniquely Finnish quality called sisu. “The translation would be ‘guts,’ ” says Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia, the world’s most prolific cell phone maker, in an interview at company headquarters here. “But it’s also endurance. There is a long-term element to it. You overcome all obstacles. You need quite a lot of sisu to survive in this climate.” More …
Leisure Suit Larry Finds Love on the N-Gage
July 22nd, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Games | No Comments »
Nokia (today announced that it will co-publish and develop Leisure Suit Larry(TM): Pocket Party for the N-Gage platform. Based on Vivendi Universal Games’ classic Leisure Suit Larry series, the N-Gage offering is a 3D adventure that challenges gamers to help Larry get the ‘action’ he so desperately craves. More …
Acquisition of Jippii Mobile Entertainment Oy
July 21st, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Companies & M&A, Research & Stats | No Comments »
iTouch will gain immediate access to new markets in countries including Russia, Finland, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Sweden and Norway. Jippii has also established a popular pan-European youth brand via an on-line gaming portal with 2.8 million users playing over 30 million gaming sessions on a monthly basis. More …
Q&A: Sony Pictures’ Yair Landau tells us where to look to spot the fast-approaching future of entertainment.
July 20th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
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Superscape to Launch 20th Century FOX ‘Aliens Versus Predator’ 3D Game for Mobile Phones
July 20th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Games | No Comments »
Superscape Group, leaders in revolutionary entertainment for mobile phones, announces that it has signed a licensing agreement with 20th Century FOX Licensing and Merchandising, part of FOX Entertainment, to develop a 3D wireless game based on the forthcoming Alien versus Predator film which is due for release in August 2004. More …
India: Movies, games, playing now on a mobile phone near you
July 20th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
Gaming companies, Internet portals and content providers are rushing to cash in on the explosive growth of mobile phones in India, predicting that content rather than cost will be the new battle ground.
“The price war in the mobile industry is now all over and there is a new type of war they (operators) will fight now,” said Vishal Gondal, chief executive officer of Indiagames.
“That war is going to be on content over the mobile phones,” Gondal told AFP. “In the future the major revenue areas for mobile operators are ringtones, wallpapers, downloads, games and movies.” More …
Focus On: Square Enix Ltd.’s John Yamamoto
July 20th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
The expansion of Square Enix’ European division heralds a whole new era for the Japanese giant in this territory – with self-publishing, moves into other media and even local development all on the cards. Rob Fahey caught up with new European president and CEO John Yamamoto…
The arrival of one of Japan’s biggest publishers on European shores is a fairly major event for the games market in the PAL territories. Although some Japanese firms – Konami and Capcom are good examples – have major presences in Europe and have been publishing their own titles here for years, they remain the exception rather than the rule. In general, Japanese firms – even those with US subsidiaries – have been happy to sit back and allow other publishers to handle their products in Europe. More …
Battle brewing over violence in video games
July 19th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Games | No Comments »
The video game industry seems to delight in pushing the envelope – and the bounds of good taste – with ever-gorier content. That has put it under renewed attack from legislators and activists who claim some titles must be kept out of kids’ hands, though courts have repeatedly granted games First Amendment protections.
Meanwhile, we’re in the midst of a gaming explosion. Deloitte & Touche predicts the worldwide number of “game compliant devices” other than PCs – mobile phones, consoles, and handheld computers, for example – will see a sixfold increase by 2010, from 415 million now to 2.6 billion.
For some legislators, that’s a call to arms. Some want the violence in some games declared obscene.
“You can carve out some exceptions to the First Amendment when it is determined that these things we are talking about – like pornography, like alcohol, like tobacco, and so on – have harmful effects to children,” Leland Yee, a Democrat in the California Assembly. More …
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