Mobile Games & Gaming Blog

Dalvik Turbo to Speed Up Android

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:11:23 +0100

Myriad has announced a replacement virtual machine for Android that increased application speed by three times. Next to speeding up, the company also claims that it will save your battery. Dalvik...

iDrift Racingwheel for iPad

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:59:32 +0100

Designer Michael Greenberg has released a concept for an iPad steering wheel. Though the concept is extremely simple, we’d love to test it on Asphalt or any other racing game. The steer consists of...

Sidebar Launches BlackBerry Discovery App

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:45:22 +0100

US firm SideBar has launched a content discovery application for the BlackBerry platform. With the app, consumers will receive suggestions of what else they might want to purchase. The app will...

THQ Aims for Digital Distribution

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:40:23 +0100

Though THQ used to own a lot of shelfspace all over the world, this might change soon as the company has announced to focus themselves more and more on digital distribution. It has renamed Juice...

Nexus Sold 80K Units to Date

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:39:00 +0100

Flurry has calculated that Google/HTC has sold 80.000 Nexus One Phones. Last month we already reported 20.000 sales and to the looks of it, the device didn’t gain much traction a month later as well....

Fujitsu not the Only iPad Trademark Owner

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:05:48 +0100

It seems Apple will have a lot more trademark issues with their iPad when they enter Europe. Apart from Fujitso claiming the name in the US, STMicroelectronics claims it in Europe. STMicroelectronics...

Kindle’s Open Beta

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:16:20 +0100

While we informed you that several developers had already started to work on Amazon’s Kindle, the company has now created a portal where new developers can sign up for the Beta as well. To...

Metismo to Separate PSP Tech

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:30 +0100

Metismo has announced that, besides offering it as part of their Bedrock IDE, their PSP OpenGL ES engine will be available as a standalone product to support the PSP development community. "While we...

Gameloft Celebrates 10.000 Twitter Followers

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:57:37 +0100

Creating a huge fanbase isn’t easy and we have to admit, Gameloft has been working very hard for it. Over the past months we have seen the company do many promotions with the result of reaching...

Think Services: iPhone Dominates Over Wii Development

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:50:13 +0100

Think Services has interviewed 800 game developers in the US and found out that the iPhone was becoming more and more popular while many are considering to abandon Nintendo’s Wii. Over 25% of the...

Apogee Heads for the App Store as well

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:36:04 +0100

Apogee will see a real 90’s PC classic return on Apple’s App Store. In close cooperation with developing company Mobila, the company worked on the revival of ‘Rise of the Triad’. Rise of the Triad is...

Fishlabs Lands SE Embedded Deal

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:27:54 +0100

Following barely a week after competitor HandyGames announced a pre-install deal with SonyEricsson, FishLabs has the opportunity to announce their deal for Rally Master Pro. The game will be...

3 AU to Sell the iPad

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:22:42 +0100

Drei (or Hutchinson) Austria has confirmed the pricing of the iPad 3G on their networks. The device will be sold at € 333,-. Consumers to have to take a two year subscription with it. The two year...

Javaground Sells Tech to Pay the Bills

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:55 +0100

Javaground is in big problems as one of its creditors made a claim for $ 2 Million. The company has 10 days to pay the bills in order to survive, or it will lose its assets to the creditor in...

Retrevo: iPad Fails to Convince Buyers

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:15:35 +0100

In anticipation to the iPad revealing, many consumers had shown interest in this new Apple device. After the presentation however, it turned out that a lot of those consumers have lost interest...