Zynga Acquired Newtoy

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Newtoy, the studio that developed the For Friends app series on the App Store. Zynga was interested in acquiring Newtoy for its knowledge in social gaming. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung Sold 1.000.000 Galaxy Tabs

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Samsung has announced that it has sold 1 million Galaxy Tab’s world-wide. Nearly two weeks ago, the counter had only reached 700.000 units. Read the rest of this entry »

HandyGames Wins German Developer Award

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

HandyGames has won the Best Mobile Game 2010 award for Anno – Creat a New World! At the German developer awards. The companies celebrate by offering the game at discount to German speaking gamers. Read the rest of this entry »

Android 2.2 Most Popular Android OS

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Over the last two weeks of November, most Android devices have been running Android OS 2.2 according to Google metrics. Android 2.2 is now installed on 43% of all Android Smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

Lunaforte Passes 30 Million Downloads over 2010

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Lunaforte seems to enter 2011 at full speed. The Dutch studio’s products generate 4 million downloads a month. In total, the company passed 30 million downloads this year alone. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Values Mobile Gaming at $3.4 Billion in 2010

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

EA has done some calculating and estimates that the Mobile Gaming market is worth $3.4 billion in 2010. For 2013, they expect the amount to grow all the way to $ 4.5 billion. Read the rest of this entry »

RIM Acquired The Astonishing Tribe

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Recently, The Astonishing Tribe managed to get the world’s attention with their demo video on how screens will function in our future lives. Today, the news reaches us that the company has been sold to RIM. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenFeint Launched In-App Payments and Developer Fund

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

OpenFeint has announced the launch of OFX, a new platform based on OpenFeintX that allows developers to easily handle in-app purchases. To celebrate, OpenFeint opened up a developer fund. Read the rest of this entry »

Herocraft Passes 12.345.678 Downloads on Ovi

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Talking about big numbers, Herocraft announced the company has passed the joyfull number of 12.345.678 downloads on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Payments Delayed Until Feb ‘11

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | 1 Comment »

While Microsoft is putting a lot of effort in pleasing Windows Phone 7 developers, committing to actual payments seems to be a big issue for the IT giant. Read the rest of this entry »