Posts Tagged ‘Handmark’

MWC: Astraware Big Winner Samung/Handmark Fund

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: Bada | 5 Comments »

Last night, Samsung and Handmark announced the games that will receive funding for their presence on Samsung’s Baba fund. The biggest winner was Astraware, a studio that split from Handmark only recently.

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Handmark and Astraware Split

February 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In pursuit of their future in development and support, Handmark has given Astraware back to its original owners. Handmark bought the successful casual games studio about two years ago.

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Kindle Opening Up

January 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle | No Comments »

Amazon has announced it will allow developers to create apps for its e-book readers. Amazon will allow ‘active content’ later in 2010 and the first developers have been reported working on mobile games for it.

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Samsung and Handmark Announce Gaming Innovation Fund

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In order to drive more traffic to their Samsung Applications Store, Samsung and Handmark have announced a new fund to target innovators in mobile game development.

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Handmark Appoints Jason Ford

August 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Handmark announced it has appointed Jason Ford as its Vice President of Games he will play a key role in ramping up the company’s games development and further expand its presence in the mobile gaming market

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Handmark Launches App Store for Windows Mobile

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Though the company has been offering a white label service for it since about two months, the company now announced that it will bring their own app store to consumers as well.

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Handmark Opens On-Device App Store for Windows Mobile

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Handmark has announced its new mobile store platform for Windows Mobile. The platform is aimed directly at operators and handset vendors and more platforms are will to be supported soon.

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Handmark to Acquire Freerange

February 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In order to increase their porting and distribution speed, Handmark has announced that it will acquire Freerange Communications somewhere along the next few weeks.

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Handmark Releases Glyph on App Store

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Developer Handmark has released yet another mobile game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This time it's Sandlot's casual puzzle game called Glyph.

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Handmark Releases Astraware Sudoku on App Store

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

In the first days of the App Store, we saw numerous sudoku games hit the brand new sales channel. Handmark clearly chose to wait for the storm to calm with their Astraware Sudoku release.

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