Mobilerated’s Handset Top 10 MobileRated released it’s top ten downloading handsets, showing the cheapest gamers are owners of the blackberry 8100. Blackberry 8100 | RIM K750i | SonyEricsson V3 | Motorola 6620 | Nokia K810i | SonyEricsson Blackberry 8700 | RIM N70 | Nokia K800i | SonyEricsson 6280 | Nokia 6600 | Nokia Of course…
Category: Advergames
Ashu Mathura On Mobile Advergaming; Free Games Anyone
The business of video games for mobile phones must be one of the most dynamic and fast paced industries in the world today. New phones are hitting the shelves faster and faster. Phones are becoming more and more powerful by the month. Innovative technologies like 3D and multiplayer games are pushed into the hands of…
Products Placed Liberally In Video Games
LOS ANGELES – As a member of the Elite Operations Division in the video game “True Crime: Streets of LA,” the character Nick Kang must find his way to a truck heist at the flagship Puma sportswear store. Lucky for him, he has a Motorola handset with built-in global positioning system technology. In the online…
Acme: South-East Asian Games Top 10
The range of best selling games has a remarkable low number of licensed mobile games. Rambo On Fire | In-Fusio Miami Vice Mobile | Player X Bimmer Street Racing 3D | Falcon Mobile Sim Babe | Nostromo Manager pro Football 2006 | Ojom Absolute Puzzle Deluxe | Global Fun Beershooter | HandyGames Bubble Gun |…
Annual VASland Report And More
Annual VASland report for 2006 Buongiorno took the liberty of releasing their annual VASland report for 2006. Looking at the press release, the report devides our consumer base into three types of consumers which is beyond popular terms like early adapters, casual gamers or even male vs. female. They kick off with the “Symbiotics”. This…
Happy 2007 – 3 More forecasts
I will post this now as I will not come round to doing it the coming 2 days. On behalf of all editors on The Mobile Games Blog, I wish you all a great 2007. As most of you probably remember our 2007 forecast editorial a few weeks back, we have pasted below the forecasts…
Amobee About Ad-Funded Content
Amobee Media Systems have researched ad funded software versus full price on various operator decks and discovered that for every one full price sale, the ad funded version get’s downloaded fifty times. Even though the consumption is 50 times higher, revenues for the developer seem to be only four times higher. This can mean a…
ClickPayGo
Arjan asked me to do a little write-up of ClickPayGo from Chillingo seeing as we (OrangePixel) are the first ones to start using it in Java games. So first let me explain you what ClickPayGo actually is. The service is developed and hosted by Chillingo.com the guys behind clickgamer.com, and straight from the ClickPayGo site…
Toyota Bows Web/Mobile Gaming Campaign for Scion
The effort takes the theme of long distance car travel, encouraging players to virtually visit other states and locales. Called “Scion Road Trip,” the promo runs until August 15 and echoes a similar “ScionSpy” campaign the carmaker launched last year to promote the xA and xB vehicles. Several weekly contests over two months allow “drivers”…
Gameloft Connect, a new channel is born
Installing After downloading the 3 MB package from here, the installer showed us the service is available in English, German, French and Spanish. Like any app that wants to have a prominent position, it suggests we should make it available on the desktop, start menu and quickstart. Since I don’t expect to buy a new…
Coca Cola, Paradox launch Thums Up Everest Challenge mobile game
MUMBAI: Paradox Studios Limited announced the release of the mobile game ‘Thums Up Everest Challenge,’ in association with Coca-Cola India. The game, developed by Paradox Studios, is based on Thums Up’s unique action packed brand campaign, the ‘Thums Up Everest Challenge – ‘Hai Dum?,’ which provides Thums Up drinkers an opportunity to test their mettle…