Archive for January, 2009

Gameloft Starts Twitter Based Marketing and… is Kicked off!

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Gameloft is finally joining the long list of publishers that use Twitter as promotional tool. We must admit that the publisher may be late, but they are more progressive. Too progressive perhaps…

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Vodafone to Launch Own App Store

January 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

According to a spokesman at Vodafone NL, the operator will follow O2 by launching it's own App Store for Vodafone subscribers. The launch is only weeks away according to the interview he gave to a Dutch website.

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RIM Opens BlackBerry App Store

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research in Motion has finally opened up their highly anticipated app store for submissions. By taking this step, RIM hopes to follow Apple's massive success with their App Store.

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GetJar Hires Patrick Mork, Opens new Office

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

We aren't sure if this is big news for Patrick Mork (ex Glu), but it surely is for GetJar. The mobile games veteran has signed up as one of the new executives which will be leading the fast growing portal.

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MobileGamesDB Launches 2008 Publisher Top 10

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | 1 Comment »

Following the quality index of Pocket Gamer, MobileGamesDB has also released a top 10 mobile game publishers. Fishlabs is leading their charts, followed by Gameloft and I-Play.

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iControlPad to Support iPhone (3G) and iPod Touch

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

The guys over at iControlPad have put some new footage online in regards to their highly anticipated iControlPad. The new footage shows an actual working model and announced support for all current iPhone models and the iPod Touch.

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Gameloft Shares Rise Thanks to WestLB

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft had a good day at the market as analyst WestLB recommended buying the company's shares. WestLB expects that Gameloft will be a winner when the economy recovers.

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Connect2Media Licenses String ‘em In

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Connect2Media has licensed (what's according to them) the biggest word game television show. The company will turn Two Way Media's String 'em In into a mobile game.

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Hudson Licenses Xpress Suite

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Hudson Entertainment (the North American branch of Hudson) has chosen to license Javaground's latest version of the Xpress Suite. Hudson Entertainment will utilize the suite of tools to improve their J2me porting.

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The MMO of Game Publishing

January 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | 5 Comments »

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