Nokia's Vancouver Studio Closes

Nokia Develop Magazine found out that Nokia is closing it's Vancouver games studio. With the closing, 100 employees risk looking for a new job this summer and there is no telling what this means for the much discussed N-Gage.

Belgium to Regulate Mobile Content Market

Belgium The Belgian government has introduced a new set of regulations to keep hold of the mobile content and services market. The government feels that self-regulation within the industry has failed.

EU: Cheap Internet and Standards for Mobile Payments

Europe EU commissioner Viviane Reding has announced plans that should reduce data costs for mobile internet in Europe and introduce a central system for processing mobile payments.

App Store's 99ct Games, the Details

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Fishlabs Feels Used by Greystripe

Fishlabs The guys over at GoMoNews sat down with Michael Schade from Fishlabs to talk about his games and the mobile advertising space. During the interview, Michael expressed his negative feelings toward Greystripe.

Glu CEO Greg Ballard Stepping Down

Glu Glu (GLUU) has announced that the company's CEO and President Greg Ballard has indicated his intention to end his career as the CEO of the well known publisher.

ZeniMax Borrowed $105 Million for id

Id-soft Following the acquisition of id Software by Zenimax, the companies didn't disclose any information about the total sum Zenimax put on the table to finance the deal.

Gameloft Starts @CastleOfMagic Naming Contest

Gameloft Following the release of Caslte of Magic, Gameloft has announced a competition in which players can name the character for the next mobile game it will appear in.

Duke Nukem Coming to iPhone

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#redrocketgames starts Twitter Promotion

Redrocket-games Developer and publisher Red Rocket Games has announced a new competition aimed at achieving more brand awareness for their studio's productions amongst Twittering iPhone owners.

Radial 50 Does Radical Promotion

Radial50 Radial 50 is launching their first iPhone game, and has chosen a competition to raise awareness for their title as consumers have a chance of winning gift certificates upon completion the game.

App Store Turns 1

Apple Apple has a lot to celebrate this Saturday as it's successful App Store turns one. To celebrate, the company has put a special 'our favourite games' selection online.

BlackBerry App World Growing Fast

Blackberry BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has announced that it's App Store called BlackBerry App World has about 2.000 mobile apps and games available in the US, UK and Canada.

Eidos is no More...

Eidos-interactive Eidos, one of the bigger names in the industry, is no more. Their new owner Square Enix has announced that publisher Eidos transforms into developer Square Enix Europe.

DGADAG: Games & Advertising

Dutch-games-association One of the group discussions was about games and advertising. Though this was a discussion without mobile developers, it will still be an interesting read through.

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The latest Comments

Put some figures behind the stupid press release! We are so good that we cant talk about figures - how long will that work?

What will be next? The main problems arent solved as well. Greg will show up somewhere for sure but I doubt that it will be mobile games anymore.

I am really afraid what will show up now as CEO of Glu.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... Knock out!

Greg, you're going to be sorely missed. Your vision of a 3 publisher industry, ability to overspend VC money, running a company deep in the red inflating licensing and marketing costs across the board has been a shining example to us all. Run for senate?

It would be kinda hard to have a PSP as a phone. Think how funny it would look when talking. Plus it would be annoying having to take a PSP in your pocket wherever you go.

Nice game and it is better than the Real Football

It is good that badmouthing doesn't bring too much damage to a good company, but overrated when they entered the market at $14? Sure they are worth more then $1 but $14 can't be anything else then overrated.

1. fat credit from silly valley bank,
2. lots of redundancies

3. and also in all honesty - the company was underrated for a long time.


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being at 1.5 + reflects reality and proves badmouthing is not enough to destroy a company.

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400 respondents - interesting including the Nokia guys? I want to get figures on the downloads. Where the downloads come from? Which devices, which countries, etc.

How many users tried to install it in total and failed? What is the overall user experience of OVI?

So awaiting some real data from Nokia very soon.

Posted by Spam on Ovi Poll Results

Hi there,

actually the focus re publishing is for the LatAm office. We will still continue with own developed games and us closing the development part of the office in Buenos Aires does not imply that we are backing out entirely of development.

BR
/bertil

 

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