Untill the 22nd I will be visiting the Pixalon Studios office in Prague. This means MGB will have less updates (in other words, we will probably only blog breaking news)
Good news for all you Kindle lovers out there. Months ago we tried launching on Kindle but failed because we did not have a US bank account. Today however, we discovered Amazon has launched it in the end.
Who doesn't know Trip Hawkins? He founded a mammoth in the gaming industry called EA, a console called the 3DO and this year, as CEO of Digital Chocolate, he invented the Omni Gamer!
Based in Vienna, Austria, Xendex is one of those old companies that has managed to stay alive during the credit crunch and years of consolidation we are now leaving behind. The company recently surprised many with a big $3.5 Million investment and seems ready for whatever 2010 will bring.
Starting today, executives in the mobile games industry can start submitting their industry perspective for 2010 and a few lines on how their company will deal with the changes agead.
This morning we received an e-mail detailing that an important part of the Fox Mobile management has left the company. Amongst those leaving are the CEO and COO.
A few months ago, we announced that the Odroid (Android based handheld console) was only available in it's home market; Korea. Starting this week, developers all over the world can order an Odroid Devkit.
When looking at all those social gaming platforms on the iPhone, Scoreloop hasn't always been the fastest innovator (though their betting platform is a differentiator from the start), the company has now taken a head start by going cross platform.
As I said, we will try to keep covering the big news during my Prague trip and the minute I get into my hotel room, it's Player One all over the mailbox. The company went bust and ROK (who started to acquire it) is not happy at all...
Consumers worldwide will be able to take their purchased minis games to the big screen with the soon to be released ‘and optional’ 3.15 patch for their Playstation 3 consoles.
According to the latest IDC report, the analysts expect that the App Store will grow to 300.000 mobile apps and games by the end of 2010 and competitor Android will grow to 75.000.
Apple has taken down all one thousand apps from a developer called MoLinker. The reason for taking them down is a huge amount of fake reviews to propel it’s title upward in the charts.
With the release of Bada, Samsung also exposed the results of some consumer research they did. Samsung’s survey was held under feature phone owners in France, the UK and Italy.
At the Bada presentation, Samung also announced the Bada category for the Samsung Developer Challenge. The company set up a price pot worth $ 2.7 Million in total.
Today, Samsung showed the first version of the Basa OS to the public. With the Bada platform, Samsung hopes to build a smartphone platform that will address the needs of many different consumer types.
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No, the license is attached to your identity. So you should be able to play them for free. I haven't tested it yet though.