Archive for the ‘People’ Category

EA Mobile: Marchetti In, Lasky Out

March 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

After a diss from former EA founder Trip Hawkins at GDC this year and several rumors made public at MoCoNews lately, EA Mobile started replacement of Mitch Lasky by Michael Marchetti according to several sources.

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HandsOn Rumor Round-up at MocoNews

March 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

MocoNews has released an editorial about the rumors that are currently haunting mobile games publisher HandsOn. With CEO Jonathan Sacks seemingly waiting to be sacked and the COO taking the power, there seems to be a lot going on.

Juan Montes Joins Distinctive Developments

January 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

UK developer Distinctive is expanding its team of directors by getting Juan Montes on board as a non-executive director. Juan’s main job will be to help the company to set its strategy and expand on a global scale. In his past, Juan Montes was VP of software development at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, CTO and VP of content at Motorola and last but not least, European MD at Jamdat.

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Lucy Hood new CEO at Jamba!

January 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

The deal between Verisign and News Corp is finished meaning Jamba! is now finally part of News Corp’s assets. Lucy Hood, who used to head up Fox Mobile, has been appointed as the new CEO for Jamba! immediately. While looking trough the Press Officers database of 3GSM, we already noticed many Fox employees have put Jamba! as the company they work for.

Darren Newnham, from SEGA to TelcoGames

January 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Darren Newnham, from SEGA to TelcoGames

Darran Newnham, has made a new careermove and switched to take control of international licensing activities at Telcogames. Darren has a long track record in mobile as prior to his work for setting up SEGA Mobile, he worked at O2, T-Mobile, Hutchinson and BT.

Trip Hawkins: DC blossomed in 2006

January 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

The game tycoon blog did an interesting interview with Trip Hawkins about his past and present in gaming. The main bit of the interview is based around the business of Digital Chocolate. He explains 2006 was the year Digital Chocolate started to blossom as operators opened up to his original IP instead of just taking on branded mobile games. Also he noted to be doing business in 70 countries and the US isn’t a primary revenue driver for Digital Chocolate. This being said, it’s interesting to see that DC is not only doing licensing on a low level, but also approaching the market a bit differently. The interview also handles the application AvaPeeps that DC is about to launch. AvaPeeps is a social networking application that integrates with services like mySpace.

InfoSpace merger around the corner?

December 28th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

InfoSpace’s head of mobile Stephen Davis is leaving the company. After InfoSpace choose to depart from consumer mobile content, there was not much work left. The rumours about an acquisition are growing stronger and stronger as moves like these obviously fuel these.

MobileGamesDB.com; standardizing the mobile games market

December 15th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 2 Comments »

Redboss has clearly taken a good look at IMDB when they started building their MobileGamesDB. The website is still in beta, and still a work-in-progress, but their ideas about fragmentation in the industry are very clear. The Mobile Games Blog will closely track progress on this initiative and report back on it frequently as we feel this is one more step toward consumer acceptation of mobile games. For now, the call is onto all developers to start submitting information about their mobile games to fill the database. The website features an overview on how to create XML (mgXML) files with info about your games and how to submit it for inclusion. More information can be found on www.mobilegamesdb.com

QB’s Kyle leaves

December 15th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Today we’d like to say goodbye to fellow blogger Kyle from Quicklybored. It was a pleasure reading your work and cooperating to improve the market. Good luck in Israel!

MI’s interview with I-Play’s David Goosen part 1

December 12th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

MobileIndustry has done another one of their famous 2-part interviews. This time, they held it with David Goosen from I-Play where they address mainly the consumer base for mobile games and the changes that exist in it. They address both the need for women and competition in innovating gameplay by Nintendo.