Archive for October, 2008

Glu Goes Pennystock

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today has been a remarkable day for Glu. After a huge launch on the market. The shares have taken a dive today and closed at $ 0.96. This while in June 2007, the shares where worth well over $ 14.

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NGS: Snap Speeds J2me Development

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Good news for mobile game developers that utilize Nokia's Sn@p platform. With the newest SDK release (v2.2), Nokia promised that development time will be slimmed down.

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CGF: Apple Best Format Holder

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

At the Casual Games Forum in London, several developers spoke about the newly established format holder Apple. With it's iPhone, it is doing a great job in building and maintaining a brand as well as guiding developers.

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Motorola Ditches UIQ and Linux

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

In order to streamline it's handset offering, Motorola will no longer offer UIQ and Linux based devices to the market. Instead, the full focus will be on Windows Mobile, Android and it's own P2K.

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AquaPhone, Micropayments Bring 2 Times The Revenue

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

The Russian developer Dynamic Pixels has announced that it's AquaPhone game has attracted 1 million gamers within the Russian Federation. The biggest success for the company isn't in just selling the game, but the highly attractive micro payments market.

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NGS: EA: N-Gage Was Soft-Launched

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

At the Nokia Games Summit, there was also some negative feedback from one of the speakers at the event; EA. The publisher feels that Nokia hasn't pushed N-Gage hard enough yet.

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NGS: Market Problems Continue

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | 1 Comment »

Speaking to Reuters, Nokia's head of gaming Jaakko Kaidesoja explained his view at the current problems faced by the mobile games industry, and his vision on the future of them.

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NGS: Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge Winner

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

At the Nokia Games Summit, the winner of Nokia's Mobile Games Innovation Challenge has been revealed to the public. Ghostwire took home the 40K grand prize, but wasn't the only winner at the event.

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NGS: N-Gage Statistics

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

At the Nokia Games Summit, Tero Ojanpera has showed some statistics about the success of their N-Gage platform, which launched last April. We short-listed the facts.

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NGS: Nokia Releases One

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

At the Nokia Games Summit in Rome, Nokia Games Publishing has announced the release of the long awaited N-Gage title One. A mobile game that mixes multiplayer gaming and motion sensing in it's experience.