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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) continues to expand Kindle’s potential as a dedicated e-reader with some related uses, including games. The latest addit…
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) continues to expand Kindle’s potential as a dedicated e-reader with some related uses, including games. The latest addit…
If only the rest of Electronic Arts’ businesses could be doing so well … During the company’s earnings call Monday, executives said that t…
With sales of traditional video games down, Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) continues to look (so far unsuccessfully) for its digital business…
Namco Networks may be known for big mobile hits, like Pac-Man, which has been downloaded to the iPhone 23 million times, but overall it hasn…
EA Mobile plans to announce tomorrow at a press event in Montreal that Tetris has been downloaded on to mobile phones 100 million times sinc…
Palm (NSDQ: PALM) unveiled two new devices today at CES for Verizon Wireless — the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. But the more impor…
Choosing the “best” iPhone games of 2009 is a subjective a task — the definition of “fun,” “great graphics” or “cool” functionality varies…
EA Mobile was at CTIA this week to show off its upcoming “Rock Band” game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The game, which is based on the pop…
Now that three of the top mobile game makers in the world, including EA Mobile, Gameloft (EPA: GFT) and Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), have report…
EA Mobile has appointed Luca Pagano as its new publishing head for its European operations, the company has confirmed.
The hire was first r…
While Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) continues to implement several cost-reduction initiatives to turn around the broader company, mobile cont…
Games Publisher Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has launched its first ad-supported iPhone game called “Lemonade Tycoon,” based on a old, but p…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched a clock that is rapidly ticking up to mark the one-billionth iPhone application download. The countdown (or…
Games publisher Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) posted a massive $641 million quarterly loss for the 3 months ending 2008, with $368 million c…
It’s hard to judge what normal is since Apple’s App store has only been live since July 11, but it seems Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had a blockbuste…
— Fox Mobile releases content from The Simpsons: The Simpsons is getting another huge boost from Fox Mobile with more than 100 new and excl…
A day after *Glu Mobile* said it would shed staff and cut CEO Greg Ballard
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has not only been successful at selling millions of iPhones, but its application storefront has been a runaway hit, too.…
Over the past few years, the mobile games industry has been been hampered by high royalty costs, distribution difficulties and the costs of…
Would Disney (NYSE: DIS) consider buying Electronic Arts? (NSDQ: ERTS) That
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) said wireless revenues jumped 24 percent to $47 million in its fiscal second quarter from $38 million in the ye…
As the global economic crisis continues, Nokia’s head of gaming Jaakko Kaidesoja said he expected that the overall gaming market is “likely…
— Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has choosen Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) to provide VoIP services to Windows Live Messenger in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,…
Connect2Media is preparing to release 12 games for the Android operating system, Mobile Entertainment reports. Less than two months after me…
Trip Hawkins is in the middle of transitioning Digital Chocolate from a company he started almost five years ago as a pureplay mobile game c…
— Games and entertainment are hottest categories at Handango: Handango released its Yardstick for the first half of the year and reported t…
EA Mobile is developing games for four Eidos Interactive titles under a new distribution and licensing deal for some of the publisher
— EA Mobile releases ‘Spore Origins’ for iPhone: EA Mobile released “Spore Origins,” its latest game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, today a…
— Zed strikes distribution deals: Mobile entertainment company Zed has struck two exclusive distribution deals, one with rapper T-Pain
The latest mobile games report from Nielsen Mobile shows in startling detail how hard it is to make money in this business. Of the 141 publi…
San Francisco-based ngmoco, which is short for
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has released its second quarter earnings (PaidContent has details) — of interest to the mobile world is that E…
It’s all systems go for AT&T (NYSE: T) this Friday as it plans to launch Apple
Less than two weeks ago, Neil Young said he was leaving Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), and this week, Newsweek and others are reporting that…
EA Mobile is thinking about launching new business models, such as a mobile-game subscription in Europe, to attract more customers, accordin…
Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At tha…
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The K…
— Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Resear…
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), the mobile game publisher that went public in March and is known for titles such as Super K.O. Boxing! and Brain Ge…
Video game maker Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) reported revenue of $1.5 billion in its critical quarter ending December 31, up 17 percent yea…
— HuevoCartoons are going mobile: You may not have heard of them, but in Mexico Los Huevos are huge, and worldwide the spanish-language car…
The slowdown in the mobile games market is due to the companies in the industry ignoring smartphones, according to EA CEO John Riccitiello,…
EA released its Q307 earnings, reporting that its mobile business brought in $37 million for the quarter, up 6 percent year-on-year. Althoug…
Electronic Arts’ mobile division in Europe has hired former Vodafone games boss Tim Harrison as its director or marketing, reports Mobile En…
Mobile game makers are beginning to pay attention to the high-end smartphone market as the segment grows in size. WSJ notes that 3.9 million…
— EA has appointed Barry Cottle as SVP and GM of EA Mobile, heading all of the mobile business worldwide. EA Mobile falls under the recentl…
Electronic Arts reported its Q207 revenues today, and not much on its mobile division, except for basic revenue numbers: its Q2 revenues cam…
Four major mobile game companies — EA, Gameloft, Glu and I-play — have agreed to release their games across all UK operators on the same d…
News.com.au has a piece on the Reuters media summit, focusing on games. On the mobile side, Gerhard Florin, EA’s international publishing he…
I spoke to Mitch Lasky, the former CEO of Jamdat and till recently the head of EA Mobile…we broke the news about his leaving last week and…
Updated below on Lasky
As I hinted last week, EA Mobile has a new head, as Mitch Lasky prepares to leave. Starting April 2, Michael Marchett…
Electronic Arts has launched EA Sports Link, a mobile site that connects EA Sports game fans with news about games and sports, and will even…
EA Mobile will spend 2007 finding ways to use mobile handsets to bring together consumers playing titles over mulitple home formats, Javier…
Carriers must get better at retail if mobile gaming is to become a mainstream entertainment medium, mobile games makers said at 3GSM. RealNe…
EA has released its earnings for its fourth quarter results — net revenue was $1.281 billion, up one percent as compared with $1.270 billio…
EA Mobile’s share of the US mobile games market has decreased by more than 5%…”During the three months ending October 2006, EA’s share of…
I had a chat with EA Mobile about their new line up of games, which the company hopes will extend EA’s market beyond its stronghold of North…
Very little information on EA’s mobile revenues in EA’s Q3 earnings release today….only bit of info: that its mobile revenues in the quart…
Mobile Entertainment: British operator O2 and games giant EA have teamed up to offer free games to the carriers customers. Every Monday in D…
Walt Mossberg moderated the keynote panel this morning, containing Mitch Lasky (SVP of EA Mobile), Michael Lynton (CEO Sony Pictures) and Lo…
EA Mobile will supply games to be sold through the Nokia Content Discoverer, which gives people easy access to downloadable content on their…
Exclusive: All the three main co-founders of Jamdat Mobile (now EA Mobile, since it was bought by EA) are leaving the company, MocoNews.net…
EA Mobile (described throughout the article as Jamdat) will start developing games at its Hyderabad office in India.
“So far the Hyderabad c…
EA Mobile, which now includes its acquisition of Jamdat last year, saw its revenues increase dramatically, of course because of Jamdat’s num…
One good thing about Mitch Lasky giving everyone the impression EA was going to sell mobile games on a third-party site is that via the effo…
So that story about EA Mobile going off deck, and then no-not-doing-it…turns out . well, I’ll let you decide…read this clarification int…
Updated: The story reported below is not accurate, according to EA Mobile PR…IGN and Gamespot got it wrong, the sources we linked to, says…
Ed: A bit late in streaming out some remainign coverage from MEM conference held two weeks ago in London
[by Peggy Anne Salz] This was the…
T-Mobile and EA have teamed up for a FIFA World Cup promotion: “Special edition Nokia handsets — namely the 6280, 6131 and N70 — will come…
Jon Niermann, the head of Electronic Arts in Asia, has “highlighted mobile gaming, along with online and locally-developed console content,…
Mitch Lasky (head of EA Mobile) talks about the mobile game business… EA Mobile will do 57,000 stock-keeping units this year — a stock-ke…
We covered EA’s Q1 earnings last week…more details from its earnings call transcript: Mobility revenue more than doubled to $88 million, d…
Electronic Art’s woes continue with a tax-related net loss of $16 million for Q1 compared to an $8 million profit in the same quarter last y…
MobileIndustry.biz has a two-part interview up with EA’s Chief Technical Officer, Lincoln Wallen, on the Jamdat acquisition and what it mean…
In February, Electronic Arts Inc., the world’s biggest video game publisher, acquired Jamdat Mobile for $684 million and showed that it’s se…
Mitch Lasky, senior VP of mobile at EA and former CEO of Jamdat, has told the GDC conference his ideas of why mobile games are stagnating. “…
EA revealed some games it plans to bring to the mobile market this year at the GDC Mobile conference, running across the core, casual and sp…
Some more on Jamdat’s Q4 earnings, now that it has been bought by EA. This is from the transcript of the earnings conference call, from CE S…
EA’s earnings slumped in the holiday quarter, coming in below analysts’ already lowered expectations. EA earned $259 million, down from the…
Electronic Arts’ $680 millio buyout of Jamdat has received approval from U.S. antitrust authorities…The transaction remains subject to var…
According to Telephia Jamdat topped the games sales chart in the third quarter of 2005, grabbing 30.6% of the revenue generated by mobile ga…
The head of EA’s mobile efforts, John Batter, will leave the company following its acquisition of Jamdat. As was announced with the deal, Ja…
It has been filed with the SEC now…have a look here..
Our complete coverage of the deal is here…
In a short note on analysts at Robert W Baird reducing their “outperform” rating on Jamdat Mobile to $27, the analyst adds: “The deal would…
This is pretty big by itself and bigger now in light of the Jamdat acquisition by Electronic Arts… I’m not sure how I managed to overlook…
The two main remaining investors in Jamdat were Apax Partners and Benchmark Capital (I’m assuming rest of them–Intel Capital, Sun Microsyst…
Some quick data from M:Metrics, on U.S. carrier placement for Jamdat (for October):
— Jamdat’s titles occupy the most premium “deck placeme…
In the conference call EA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Probst was asked why EA decided to buy into mobile content rather than…
This is according to EA CEO Larry Probst, on the conference call happening now:
— Mobile games are a big deal..this is north of $1 billion…
We were reporting all along about EA’s interest in Jamdat…EA had been sniffing around for almost a year now, but the price and valuation i…
Now we know why Jamdat CEO Mitch Lasky was not present at his company’s presentation at the UBS media conference in NYC this morning…CFO M…
[by James Pearce] Like most people I expected EA to expand its reach in the mobile game world through acquisitions, and there have been rumo…
BREAKING: Electronic Arts is buying the only pure-play public mobile content company in U.S., Jamdat, for $680 million…more to come…
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M:Metrics has found that 90% of people who buy mobile games hear about them from their carriers… From this they infer that companies keen…
Jamdat, the mobile gaming company, filed its Q3 10-Q report with SEC today…nothing more besides the details we covered in our Q3 earnings…
Couple of new developments at mobile gaming firm Jamdat:
— Rajiv Dutta, the former-CFO of eBay has relinquished his position on the Jamdat…
Jamdat just had its 3rd quarter earnings call — the results were good, but at the lower end of the forecast. The news release is here.
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I caught up with Kanishka Agarwai of Telephia at CTIA, which is showing off its On Device Meter which measures what content people actually…
Jamdat Mobile, which announced its Q2 results last week, has filed its 10-Q quarterly report with SEC, and some interesting minutiae on the…
Jamdat Mobile’s shares tanked in Nasdaq trading today, and at the time of this writing, were down 26 percent, following what investors belie…
From its Q2 earnings call, some breakdown by carriers, type, geography and other:
Verizon: Top carrier by revenues for Jamdat, 32 per of tot…
Jamdat Mobile has filed a lawsuit again Verisign, the parent company of Jamster, alleging name confusion in U.S. Jamster, which launched in…
Jamdat Mobile, the mobile games publisher, announced its Q2 results today: Revenues were $19.3 million, a 27% sequential increase over the $…