Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Games’

Activision to Open new UK-Based Studio

May 22nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In an interview with Develop magazine, Martyn Brown is said to be helping Activision find new talent for a UK based game development studio. The new outfit will be dedicated to creating mobile games.

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SuperData: Mobile Gaming Revenues Set for $7.5bln by 2015

March 31st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to SuperData, the mobile gaming market has the potential to reach a market value of $7.5 billion by 2015. The increase of value goes hand-in-hand with the increase of the amount of smartphones being sold.

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Illegal Games Are Big Business

October 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 7 Comments »

While the industry has been fighting piracy for many years, there are companies who make use of pirated games and shady distribution circles to make big bucks from your mobile games and apps.

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Spil Games Goes HTML 5

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: HTML5 | No Comments »

Following several releases on the App Store, Spil Games’ portal strategy is being further expanded to mobile as the company releases its first HTML5 based gaming portals.

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Mobile Deluxe Monetizes on Charity

July 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

California based mobile games developer Mobile Deluxe has released two new games. Though the games themselves don’t look spectacular, they actually allow players to donate to charity by playing.

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LemonQuest Returning to the Market!?

June 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 3 Comments »

Though it seemed like the company went down early April 2010, it seems Lemonquest is re-activating their mobile games business as Jeannie Odreman, Key Account Manager at Lemonquest is looking for distributors.

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Connect2Media Acquires Sennari

March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Connect2Media (formerly known as MForma) has acquired US publisher Sennari. With the acquisition, the company is setting some big steps to increase their position on the US market.

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South Korea to Block Android Market

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

Google landed itself in a conflict with South Korea because of the games on Android Market. By law, all games sold on the South Korean market need to be approved by the Game Ratings Board.

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Z2Life Adds Voicechat

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

An iPhone community we don’t hear much news from, Z2Live, seems to have added something that could leverage them above the competition. The company added voicechat to their platform.

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THQ Liquidates Universomo

March 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

On Januari 27th, we already reported that Universomo MD Markku Hakala had resigned from THQ Wireless owned Universomo. Now, it turns out that THQ Wireless has liquidated the Finnish studio.