Mobile Games & Gaming Blog

DGADAG: Games & Advertising

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:46:39 +0200

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. To avoid getting lost in the...

DGADAG: Journalists Are Lazy

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:27:45 +0200

Last Friday we visited DGADAG, an event from the Dutch Games Association. The event started with a keynote called Journalists are lazy. It featured tips that are important when contacting the press....

Buy Your Way into the App Store

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:21:35 +0200

It's no secret that you can buy your way into the App Store by using clever advertising. Adwhirl, the company that specializes in in-game advertising on the iPhone, has investigated how much it will...

Pre Heads to Holland

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:14:56 +0200

It seems KPN has secured Palm Pre distribution for The Netherlands. A weblog called MobileCowboys found out that the device is listed as supported on one of their MVNO labels. The label in question...

Fishlabs Lands Barclaycard Deal

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:53 +0200

Following their Volkswagen advertgame, Fishlabs has landed yet another advertgaming contract. This time the developer will create a mobile game for the famous Barclaycard. The game will put the...

Nickelodeon in iPhone Publishing

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:54 +0200

Nickelodeon has made two important announcements over the past few days. It announced that it will port it's popular flash games from AddictingGames.com to iPhone and that it will be open for...

Minick UK Fully Integrated into Net-M

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:18:13 +0200

Though Swisscom acquired 100% of Minick back in December 2006, it seems like Swisscom has sold Minick's UK office on to competitor Net-M. When Swisscom announced the acquisition back in 2006, the...

Cuttlefish, Another Engine Coming Along

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:45 +0200

This morning we received a tip about something called 'The Cuttlefish Engine'. Cute as it sounds, it is actually a full engine that allows developers to instantly release their games on iPhone,...

Pre Heads to Europe

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:49:46 +0200

It was uncertain for some time, but now Palm confirmed that a GSM configuration of their WebOS based Palm Pre device will finally head to Europe. According to the Guardian, O2 UK will be the lucky...

iPhoneGamesBulletin Launches

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:17:25 +0200

Stuart Dredge, one of the journalists that is working at PocketGamer, has alaunched a new daily mailinglist committed to cover the latest and greatest about iPhone development and distribution. At...

Nostromo Signs Exclusive Aggregation Deal for VF CZ

Arjan Olsder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:41:38 +0200

Nostoromo has won an exclusive contract with Vodafone Czech to provide content provisioning services for Vodafone's Live! internet and Live! mobile internet portals. Though it has just been...

MGB@DGA

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:10:41 +0200

The Dutch Games Association will be organizing DGA DAG in Hilversum/NL. MGB will be present just like a number of execs from the mobile games industry. We expect Peter de Jong from CodeGlue, Jeroen...

Sonic Boom Signs Bight Games

Arjan Olsder — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:47:31 +0200

iPhone publisher Sonic Boom has signed a deal to distribute iPhone games from developer Bight games. The deal kicks off with the availability of Big Top 10 on the App Store. Big Top 10 will shortly...

WebOS Mojo SDK Leaked

Arjan Olsder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:31:48 +0200

For all those wanting to develop for WebOS, but unwilling to wait, there is a leaked version of the SDK floating around the internet. This might give many of you a head start with your games. I don't...

Palm Open to WebOS Licensing Deals

Arjan Olsder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:22:16 +0200

It seems Palm is very happy with the success of their new WebOS. Just like their PalmOS, the company is now considering to let other hardware vendors make use of the OS. For PalmOS, this was already...