According to the new report from Juniper Research titled “Mobile Games: Subscription & Download 2007-2012 (Fourth Edition)”, the North American market for mobile games is expected to rise from less than $800 million in 2007 to more than $3 billion by 2012. At present, around 18 million Americans download or rent mobile games at least…
I-play brings Bubble Town to Facebook
I-play is certainly not the first company to Facebook-ize its mobile game, but their offering is certainly a compelling one. By bringing their Bubble Town mobile game to Facebook users, they’ve decided to shoot for the mass audience or the so called casual gamers. By now, you’ve probably already played something similar — Bubble Town…
Hudson delivers Bomberman Battles to US Mobys
Hudson has announced the release of Bomberman Battles for BREW and Java phones in the USA. This new variant of the classic franchise has multiple routes through to the end, via 32 huge maps. This sounds like a good thing to me – Bomberman was always one of those games that didn’t rely on high-end…
Glu Mobile buys out Superscape for $36M
So whilst we are on the topic of Glu, we maybe ought to mention some big money news – they have have stated they are to buy out Superscape Group Plc, for about $36M! Glu have said the acquisiton helps them scale up in the USA, and also helps advance their 3D gaming leadership. Superscape…
Glu – bringing you games for your moby in Q1 2008!
Glu has announced it’s lineup for Q108, and it’s looking pretty sweet – with two console ports coming our way! First of those is Colin McRae: DiRT, featuring full 3D graphics, and various modes. Second is Metal Gear Acid, which many of you will know from it’s PSP debut. There is also Castlevania: Aria of…
Playyoo goes public beta; Casual gamers rejoice!
We’ve already covered a “global online community that brings together gamers and developers” — Playyoo — before. Now they’re out in the public beta mode, allowing everyone to download, share and even create Adobe Flash Lite-based mobile casual games… One of the main advantages of Playyoo is in its platform, which provides gamers with easy…
MoConDi’s MeYou platform makes mobile games marketing viral
After more than two years, MoConDi finally announced the release (and success) of their MeYou platform, which allows mobile gamers to recommend their favorite titles to each other. In addition, to make everything even more viral, users are rewarded with credits for sending recommendations. Right from the start, MeYou got three carrier partners, including Vodafone…
SNES emulator coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
The graphics of the Nintendo games is just not good enough for your iPhone/iPod Touch? How about Super Nintendo? Do I hear yes? If that’s the case you’ll be glad to know the SNES emulator is about to hit iPhone, iPod Touch – big time! It’s still in beta and currently it’s not available for…
Player X have some great content titles!
Following on from the last blog I wrote, I thought it only fair to go and have a nose around the Player X website. What I actually found was some pretty decent video content titles – and impressively, it looks like they have done something with them in a number of instances – case in…
Virgin UK does games and video with Player X
Player X has been appointed as the offical aggregator of all games and video content for Virgin Mobile in the UK. The deal includes all the portal management, aggregation, QA, and any encoding required. It’s quite unusual that a single company has been appointed to do what is potentially such a large amount (both in…