When it comes to stacking blocks, Tetris is by far the most popular casual game available today. Though a real second best has never been defined, Lumines might qualify for those honors and C2M will take that game mobile.
Greystripe is introducing a new advertising model to a very limited group of mobile game developers called Pay Per Download (or PPD). This way, the company hopes to tackle the problems in advertising for downloads.
Following 18 months of investigation on 301 websites that sell mobile content, the EU has decided to fine a large number of direct to consumer channels over ‘Ringtone Scams’.
The impact of the iPhone already showed a lot of shifts when it comes to launching branded content. Over the past years, we’ve seen EA Mobile sell Harry Potter games, but it looks like Warner is going direct now.
ARM has setup a new ‘Android Solutions Center’ in order to ease and speed up development of Android powered hardware. The company hopes it will increase the number of Android powered gadgets on the market.
Social and iPhone gaming company Zynga has announced the results of their second funding round. This round, the company raised in total $ 15.18 Million according to a regulatory filing.
As promised, Microsoft has opened up Windows Marketplace to older devices. As of today, consumers with Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 are allowed to start shopping to games and apps.
Soco Soft, a publisher and developer in China, has raised ¥ 20 Million from Green Pine, an investor that is putting a lot of money in internet and mobile companies in China.
Microsoft has launched a web interface for their Windows Phone Marketplace. Though consumers will browse and pay via their browsers, games will not be sideloaded but still installed over the air.
Dutch developer Chainfire has announced that he managed to crack the new security on the Windows Marketplace. Microsoft sotres the license on the local device and with a simple exe running in the background, he is able to spoof it.
Playdom has raised $43 Million to fullfil two strategic investments that will allow the developer to establish itself in both social (Facebook) and mobile (iPhone) gaming.
The fight of a developer called Mobigame vs. IGDA’s Tim Langdell seems to have taken a new twist. Several Indie developers are now teaming up to battle the ‘Trademark Troll’ over use of the word Edge.
Some time back, Microsoft announced support for 3D gaming on their Zune HD media player. Now, they have arrived and Microsoft has chosen to make them available for free.
Palm has released WebOS Mojo SDK 1.3.1. With this release, the company is adding full support for the new Palm Pixi that will be hitting the shelves before this Christmas.
Ever wanted to work for Apple? If you are a AAA-grade developer, you might have a shot at it. The company is looking to get one (or multiple) developers into their Santa Clara Valley offices.
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