Netherrealm Studios Confirms PSP2

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

In an interview with IndustryGamers, Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick from Netherrealm confirmed that the company is evaluating the PSP2 hardware. Read the rest of this entry »

Verizon Not to Sell Windows Phone 7 Before 2011 – UPDATED

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

According to Bloomberg, Verizon has announced that it will not be selling Windows Phone 7 devices until 2011. In fact, Verizon will ‘probably release a phone’ in 2011 which doesn’t sound all too well for the OS. Read the rest of this entry »

AppJam Speakers Confirmed

September 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

With less than 2 months to go, AppJam confirmed the first set of speakers for their event that takes place from November 8th to 10th at Discovery Point in Dundee (UK). Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Closing the Gap with Nintendo in the US

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: DSiWare, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research from NewZoo shows that Apple is closing the gap between them and Nintendo in the US as Apple has registered over 40 million iOS gamers while Nintendo has 41 million gamers tied to their DS range of consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

Unreal Engine Ready to go Mobile

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It took them some time, but it seems like mobile development with the Unreal Developer Kit is about to set off as Epic shows off their UDK on a Samsung Galaxy S device. Read the rest of this entry »

OVI, More Numbers

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT, Research & Stats | No Comments »

John Pope from Nokia has sent us some additional numbers on the Ovi store performance as well as the performance of some of the other Nokia products and services that have been announced at Nokia World yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

DeNA Acquires Gameview

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Social gaming giant DeNA has announced the full acquisition of Gameview, a mobile social game developer based in Mountain View, CA in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Ovi, The Numbers and The Future

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | 2 Comments »

Ovi pushes out 2 million downloads a day. 90% of the Ovi visitors actually find something they want to download and 85% of the traffic is returning traffic. Carrier billing is the most popular billing method. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung Apps Live in 109 Countries

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Samsung has announced that its Samsung Apps channel is now live in 109 countries World-wide. The Samsung Wave is of course dominating the downloads in all of those countries. Read the rest of this entry »

GlobalFun Enters Into Liquidation

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

GlobalFun has entered into liquidation as of September 13th 2010. GlobalFun was a publisher from the old days that supplied a broad portfolio of branded and non-branded mobile games and apps for various platforms. Read the rest of this entry »