GamesCom: First Windows Phone 7 Titles Confirmed

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

With Windows Phone 7 being prepared for a release next quarter, Microsoft took the time to present the first batch of Live enabled games that will be available to consumers. Read the rest of this entry »

GDC: Mobile Games are Leading the App Store Boom

August 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Kicking off this morning was a discussion between Michael Schade (Fishlabs)Michael Bohne (Badmonkee), Nils-Holger Henning (Bigpoint) and moderator Jascha Samadi (Apprupt) about how mobile games can be successful in the competitive environment of the App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

GDC: Scoreloop Activating 100K Users a Day / Dealing with Operators

August 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

While OpenFeint was one of the first bigger social gaming networks on the iPhone, it seems Scoreloop might be leading the race when it comes to popularity. Read the rest of this entry »

GDC: You can Buy Your Way Into the App Store (Badmonkee)

August 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 11 Comments »

During the “Mobile Games are Leading the App Store Boom” session at the GDC this morning (we will cover it later today), Michael Bohne from Badmonkey stated that Apple promotions can be bought. Read the rest of this entry »

GDC: Intel to Launch App Store for MeeGo and Netbooks

August 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

During the keynote session “Building Games for Netbooks”, Intel developer Leigh Davies shed some more light on the upcoming app store Intel is currently testing in Beta for the MeeGo and Atom based netbooks. Read the rest of this entry »

GDC: Intuition vs. Metrics – Playfish

August 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Jefferson Valadares held a keynote on intuition vs. metrics, a discussion point many directors have to face when asking themselves what strategy they should apply to their studio or game. Read the rest of this entry »

Oracle Sues Google Over Java in Android

August 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The Oracle Corporation has started a lawsuit against Google for infringing Oracle owned patents in regards to the implementation of Java on Google’s Android operating system. Read the rest of this entry »

Developer Creates Ovi App Wizard for Windows Phone 7

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Silverlight | No Comments »

A US based developer has built a webservice similar (even better in some fields) to that of the Ovi App Wizard. Users can build a full Windows Phone 7 app by filling in some data inside a form. Read the rest of this entry »

Android Users Make Less Bootycalls

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Research from datingsite OkCupid showed us that iPhone owners have more sex partners than those that walk around with an Android phone. How about the iPod Touch!? Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon Considers to Build Phones!?

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Following the success of their Kindle devices, Amazon has announced its interest in building other consumer electronics as well including mobile phones according to a post in the New York Times. Read the rest of this entry »