Music, Games And Video All Set To Soar On Mobile Phones By 2014
Revenues from mobile content, defined as music, games and video, are expected to top out at $3.53 billion in the U.S. thanks to the prolifer…
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Revenues from mobile content, defined as music, games and video, are expected to top out at $3.53 billion in the U.S. thanks to the prolifer…
It’s pretty logical that a phone that can support a higher quality of game play will be used to play more games, but the rate at which it is…
Social gaming tycoon Zynga is testing out a way to bring its games to the mobile phone, but despite what you might think, it’s not by buildi…
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) launched the fifth mobile version of “Guitar Hero” globally this week, after developing and publishing the title on…
It looks like Nintendo may finally be pulled of its perch as the No.1 videogame console company in the world. It announced April-to-Septembe…
New York-based Cellufun, which makes free games that integrate chatting and other social features, has secured about $1 million in bridge fi…
Mobile game-maker Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) has announced the resignation of its President and CEO Greg Ballard. While the announcement comes…
A little Independence Day-themed news … GGL Global Gaming, a social network and online gaming platform, has teamed up with Pro Vs GI Joe t…
Zula USA launched its kids-science show The Zula Patrol in 2005 and has had a successful run on channels including PBS, NBC and Telemundo. B…
New York-based Flycell, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian-based and publicly held Acotel Group (BIT: ACO), released limited fina…
One big challenge for online game companies is how to make money from children who play lots of games online but don’t have any cash. At the…
In no time, virtual goods have become a major piece of the revenue pie at all kinds of internet companies, from social networks to portals.…
As websites begin to look at virtual goods as a way to offset weakening ad sales, money is flowing into that business. Virtual-goods startup…
Less than a month after Metallica fans got to thrash out their own versions of Enter the Sandman while playing Guitar Hero: Metallica, comes…
Digital distribution has turned the music and print-media industries on their heads, and by most accounts, the video-game industry is next.…
*Blockbuster* encroached on GameFly’s game rental business with its rental-by-mail trial about a month ago, and now GameFly has responded by…
— GameStop’s stock rises on ’09 guidance: The game retailer turned in stellar Q4 and full year numbers: Q4 revenues were up 22 percent to…
Game publishers have long complained about retailers like GameStop that sell used games, because they don’t get a cut of the resale revenues…
— Glu (NSDQ: GLUU) Goes D2C: Glu is selling its games direct to consumers with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Dark Knight and Family Feud…
— *Take-Two* retains Rockstar talent: Long live GTA. Take-Two (NSDQ: TTWO) has signed new compensation deals with key creatives from Rockst…
A day after *Glu Mobile* said it would shed staff and cut CEO Greg Ballard
In an attempt to keep its coffers full, Linden Labs is raising the prices of Openspaces, the cheaper parcels of Second Life land. The setup…
Despite the tough year Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is having, its CEO Greg Ballard emphasized his company
Liz met a zombie at Thursday’s Pier Screening in Los Angeles, but rather than eat her brains, as is customary, he offered…
For now, Facebook users in India are the only ones with access to popular word game Scrabulous through the social network. A few weeks ago,…
— *Glu* Mobile launches Batman game: Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) released The Dark Knight, a mobile game based on the latest Batman installment…
— Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Adds Konami Games to N-Gage: Nokia is adding mobile games from electronic entertainment firm Konami to its N-Gage pl…
I just noticed that Webdunia, the local language portal from the Naidunia group of publications, has launched games. The games site is curre…
FX Labs has launched Agni, it’s first PC adventure game featuring Bollywood celebrity Malaika Arora Khan as the protagonist. Agni is a third…
Our MocoNews journalist Tricia Duryee has been covering the mobile gaming parts of the Game Developers Conference going on in San Francisco…
When was the last time you saw an empty Mumbai street? Maybe in the middle of the night…Mumbai based Trine Game Studios has officially lau…
The Game Developers Conference starts Monday in San Francisco with two days focused exclusively on mobile. On Monday, Michel Guillemot, Game…
I’ve been wondering for a while about what CanvasM, the joint venture between Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Tech Mahindra, has been up to. Canvas…
A couple of days ago we noted comments by mobile games publishers worried about the effects of carriers outsourcing the running of their gam…
7Seas Technologies, a Hyderabad based gaming company listed on the Hyderabad and Ahmedabad Stock Exchanges, has reportedly acquired Neodelig…
Operator data charges and distribution have been something of an obstacle to the mobile games industry, and some players are now eying sidel…
— Sprint (NYSE: S) has launched a new game from MoConDi, the selling point being that it incorporates the mobile web, video and gaming into…
Glu is going well but has a few problems with the European market, CEO Greg Ballard told the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show, according to Pock…
Id, the creators of Doom and Quake, have launched a new division — id Mobile. Id has already released a couple of successful mobile games,…
During the outsourcing panel on gaming and animation at AGI 2007, Tapaas Chakravarti,MD of DQ Entertainment asserted that India is no longer…
I’m in Mumbai for the NASSCOM Animation and Gaming India conference, where Kiran Karnik, President of NASSCOM called for a strong inclusive…
As a tempter to fans of TV show Heroes Gameloft (EPA: GFT) has hidden an easter egg in the mobile game it developed for Universal. The spoil…
Mobile games were once the darling of the mobile content industry but were left in the corner of the party as people chased the seemingly se…
Oberon Media, the New York City-based online and mobile casual games provider backed by big money, has some some restructuring of its operat…
PlaySpan Inc, a Silicon Valley-based in-game commerce network, plans to set up a 100 percent subsidiary in Mumbai to develop, market and sup…
Well, Oasys said it could leave Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as October, and it has. It filed for bankruptcy in July, and sold all its equ…
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has agreed to pay $860 million to acquire VG Holdings, the parent of video game producers BioWare and Pandemic…
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), the media holding company, will buy the remaining shares in online and casual publisher Fun Technologies, paren…
As broadcasters and their participation TV partners continue to brace themselves for further fines and PR backlash related to call-in scanda…
— Gameloft and CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile have launched a CSI: Miami mobile game, which was developed in concert with Anthony Zuiker, Executive…
PlaySpan, a Santa Clara, CA-based in-game commerce network, has received $6.5 million in its first round of funding, paidContent.org has lea…
— HP is moving into the mobile space, a notable development because of the companies size and deep pockets. The two phones are 3G and aimed…
Media Machines, a San Francisco-based online and 3D virtual world making tools and content creation services, has received $9.4 million in i…
Casual games publisher Alawar Entertainment has sold a minority stake of itself to fellow Russian firm Finam Investment Holding. Terms were…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced its new internet services effort under the brand name Ovi, which is Finnish for door. It’s intended to aggra…
Interactive game developer Trilogy Studios has raised $3.2 million in a second round equity financing. The funds will go towards expanding i…
A summer-long mobile gaming tournament is coming to a close, with the championship finals of the Midnight Gaming Championship being held in…
Glu Mobile’s marketing director for EMEA, Patrick Mork, has been interviewed by Reuters in what reads suspiciously like a rehash of the inte…
Conduit Labs has raised $5.5 million in a first round funding for a browser-based gaming destination that combines aspects of social nets an…
–Modojo has published Telephia’s top ten mobile game publishers for the second quarter of this year — I’m pretty sure this is for the US,…
Online gaming firm Spill Group, based in the Netherlands, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Van den Ende & Deitmers, the VC…
Kongregate, a San Francisco-based website where Flash games developers post their wares for players to try out, has scored a $5 million fir…
The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting interview with Andy Nulman, CMO and president of 8-year-old, Montreal-based Airborne Entertainment…
Pop culture-focused virtual world operator Doppelganger has raised $11 million in a fourth round. The round was led by ComVentures; return b…
Web TV network Jack9 Entertainment has acquired video-enabled social net CommunityX.net. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jack9 said th…
Digital Chocolate has officially launched its DChoc Cafe Series, and claims that carrier launches are underway for more than 100 operators.…
Some interesting branded game launches:
— PopCap Games has launched a free web version of Bejeweled for iPhone users (via the Safari browse…
Multiplayer gaming portal Curse.com has secured $5 million in a first round financing from AGF Private Equity and angel investors. Back in D…
Gaming community site GuildCafe Entertainment, has raised an undisclosed amount of first round funding from IDG Ventures Boston. Most player…
Cartoon Doll Emporium, an online avatar creation and gaming network for tween girls, has received its first round of funding, from Allen & C…
Free online gaming site Ujogo has raised about $1 million in a first round financing from undisclosed investors, VentureBeat reported. The s…
Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division has appointed Redington India as the sole distribution partner for its Games for Windows busine…
As demand for Indian game developers soar, so does their salaries. This Hindu article talks about how more and more high-end production work…
Up-Porting Mobile Games: Doom creator John Camarck is working on another mobile game with the intention to port it to game consoles if it’s…
Multiplayer game developer GaimTheory has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Momentum Venture Management, which tends to concent…
Casual gaming developer PopCap Games has acquired Retro64, a site that provides downloads of old-style arcade games. Retro64, which is headq…
Czech casual gamer Geewa has received $2 million in funding from Polish investment company MCI Management, AC Euro reports. Three-year-old G…
CMP Technology, the tech media firm undergoing a big restructuring in its business, has acquired How Machines Work, a designer and developer…
Games Media Properties, the organizer of video game competitions including the World Series of Video Games, has bought out game online medi…
WoWHead.com, a small news and information site devoted to Vivendi’s World of Warcraft, has been acquired by Affinity Media for an estimated…
Ultizen, a Shanghai-based game development outsourcer, has raised $1.5 million in a first round financing from Dragonvest Partners. The comp…
Capcom CEO Tsujimoto Kenzo has told Bloomberg he expects online and mobile games to “[contribute] to the company
Media holding firm Liberty Media is proposing to buy the rest of interactive gaming firm FUN Technologies that it does not own. Currently it…
Forbes has a piece on Glu, focusing on its financial prospects and place in the market. It’s a good overview of the company aimed at investo…
Game developer Indiagames has launched its international mobile publishing and development arm IG Fun LLC, looking to focus on Europe and Am…
Four months after calling John Riccitiello back to his post as CEO, Electronic Arts is reorganizing into four groups: EA Sports, EA Games, E…
Online game publisher K2 Network has closed a $16 million second round financing led by Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s investment arm. Intel…
Digital Chocolate has scored a deal to pre-load its games onto mobile phones made by LG Electronics. Games from Digital Chocolate will be pr…
The top story last week was ESPN International’s acquisition of Cricinfo – and both companies were rather cagey about future plans. I was su…
Indiagames has tied up with Sify for launching two Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) – Raikon and Gunbound – on their games on dema…
Benchmark Capital’s newly christened Balderton European affiliate has gobbled up the remaining shares in veteran British games developer Cod…
Indian MMORPG Game developer Kreeda, which launched a gaming portal in beta only a couple of days ago, has announced that they’ve received f…
Mobile gaming’s Bollywood fixation continues: Mobile2Win has created a Java based game for Saregama India, for the mobie ‘Chain Kulii Ki Mai…
Interactive entertainment company Telltale has secured $6 million in second round funding. Granite Ventures led the round, with IDG Ventures…
Tony Garcia of FXLabs Studios, the company that is developing the Dhoom II PC game for Yash Raj Films tells the Hindu that PC gaming is more…
Reliance ADA Group company Jump Games will be launching Jump Arcade, a pay-per-play mobile based gaming portal in Europe. The solution, powe…
NeoEdge Networks, operator of casual gaming site MostFun.com, has secured $3 million of a planned $8 million second round, funding, PEHub re…
GotFrag, a news and social networking site for fans of competitive video gaming, has been bought out by NYC-based professional gaming league…
The world’s largest gaming company EA has started its reorg, the first public move by its new CEO John Riccitiello: it has appointed Kathy V…
This just in: Indiagames has tied up with Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, and will be e-tailing Microsoft’s gaming console – t…
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is reportedly planning to move into mobile games and has hired former THQ Wireless executive Balbi…
Online gaming provider Multiverse Network has secured $4.175 million in first round funding. The funding was led by Sterling Stamos Capital…
You’re reading it here first: The Anand Bazar Patrika Group (ABP) has launched a mobile games portal Mjoy4free. The site has around 500 free…
The restricted size of mobile games files and the relatively poor audio quality on handsets means that the sound of mobile games has been ne…
Gaming portal Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. is targeting revenues of Rs 40 crore for fiscal 2007-08, 40 times 2006-2007’s revenues of Rs…
–mDisney (part of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG)) has launched mobile content based on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, inc…
Studio18, which will be a part of TV18’s joint venture with Viacom, has inked a deal with Virgin Comics for graphic novels, movies and games…
Take Two Interactive has signed a deal to put Sid Meier games mobile: That includes the titles Civilisation IV, Railroad Tycoon and Pirates!…
PocketGamer has a good article on 3D mobile games, the benefits and deficiencies of the technology. The article talks with Glu’s Chris White…
Dutch online gaming startup Minoto Entertainment Europe has raised an undisclosed amount from Lunatech Ventures. This funding will enable Mi…
Zapak, Reliance ADA group’s gaming portal, has tied up with PopCap Games for 16 games, including Bejeweled, Big Money, AstroPop & Bookworm.…
On the heels of its global deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, publisher Glu Mobile has announced a strategic partnership with Kona…
Israel’s LightSpeed Gemini Internet Lab has made two investments: Outbrain, a content recommendation site, and the other was Timeless Cities…
Rediff has launched Rediff Games in beta, reports Startup Dunia. As per the site, Rediff Games features free arcade games, puzzles and strat…
A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has recommended the setting up of a National Center for Excellence in Animation…
Games company Blizzard, which dominated the MMORPG segment when it launched World of Warcraft, is planning a move into the mobile space. The…
Hyperpia, a Fremont, CA-based online gaming network, has raised around $3 million in third round of funding, according to a regulatory filin…
Digital avatar company Clone Interactive, currently in stealth mode, has raised $2.8 million from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the…
Glu Mobile and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) have announced a deal giving Glu worldwide rights to develop, market and distribute…
Digital Chocolate has released an official announcement about founder Trip Hawkin’s vision for Mobile Games 2.0, which broke yesterday. The…
Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins has hinted at the companies plans to launch a new mobile games brand, Café, which will let players socia…
–Genemation has released a game/application using the cameras on many handsets called GenMobile, which includes real-time facial feature tr…
Viacom’s kids channel Nickelodeon has revamped its India site www.Nickindia.com for the summer, and has tied up with Reliance ADA group gami…
Sony has officially released the PlayStation3 in India. As expected, they have priced PS3 at Rs 39, 990 for a 60 GB model. One needs to dish…
–I-play has signed a deal with poker champion Daniel Negreanu for some branded mobile content. First they are releasing a series of 100 mad…
Been ages since I last heard of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). Reliance ADA Group mobile gaming company Jump Games has tied up wit…
After a bit of a lull over the last two months, gaming competitions have resumed. The ASUS Gamers Association (AGA) League 2007 began this w…
Piracy is considered the bane of digital content by many content producers and distributors, but not all content is created equal — for exa…
Casual online gamer Outspark has secured its first round financing from Altos Ventures and DCM, DMW reports. The amount was not revealed. Th…
Virgin Radio, UK, the rock station once owned by Richard Branson, has begun streaming on to Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii consoles, Gu…
Despite being around for 10 years, the mobile game industry is small enough and new enough that there are few people directly qualified to w…
As per a an IAMAI-IMRB report, the size of the Online gaming industry in India, as of Jan 2007, was around Rs. 21 crores. Revenue accruals f…
Well, Rediff’s (NSDQ: REDF) “Unlimited” advertisement may have created the a lot of buzz, but they’re not alone in offering Unlimited mail:…
–Teleflip has announced its e-mail to SMS service, which allows people to receive e-mail from any e-mail account (POP, IMAP, webmail or Exc…
Some news of industry trends being discussed at FICCI Frames:
The Financial Express quotes Timmy S Kandhari, Executive Director for PwC: “.…
Electronic Arts, the biggest video gaming company, has spun off its music label efforts with Canadian label Nettwerk One Music into a new co…
Tech 2.0 has an interview with Mohit Anand, Country Manager India for Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, who says that MS plans to…
The NYT has a story on Gameloft announcing today that it will make games for RIM’s Blackberry device (“mobile game maker develops games for…
The video game console market is set to hot up in India. Sony PlayStation 3 will be officially launched in India on April 27. It will cost R…
Yahoo! FinanceQuote for GLUU/Glu Mobile’s IPO opened on Nasdaq today, and it raised a total of about $84 million as we noted last night. Th…
There’s been a few good interviews with mobile game execs lately… IGN has spoken to Julien Fournials, Gameloft’s VP of Production, about h…
Frengo has launched its game service, which uses SMS or MMS for trivia-style games around celebrities and pop culture, as well as games to p…
UPDATE: I’ve been contacted by Lemonquest with some good news — they did put into the game some of the features I thought were lacking. The…
Virgin Comics has signed up cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for a comic book character called ‘Sachin the Master Blaster’, on whom games and an a…
Games for Nintendo’s Wii will soon have community features such as friend rosters, advanced matchmaking capabilities and rankings. The techn…
Mobile game developer Spiel Studios, which had earlier signed up Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi, has now inked a deal with former Crickter Vin…
Machinima movie maker Short Fuze secured $1.9 million in its first round of funding, which the UK-based company plans to use further develop…
Modojo has a piece summing up the GDC Mobile games conference, bemoaning a lack of creativity and imagination and summing up the major speec…
IPlay CEO David Gosen gave a speech on “Publishing and Marketing Blockbuster Content on Mobile” at GDC this week, which I couldn’t get to, b…
Nokia’s is developing N-Gage as a mobile gaming platform, and to that end, they have signed up game publishers. With the increase in easily…
Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins opened the Game Developers Conference 2007 with his GDC Mobile keynote… from media reports it was vinta…
–Indonesian mobile operator PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk (XL) has launched a mobile video service over its 3G network, reports Developing Te…
Mike Yuen, the Senior Director of Qualcomm’s Gaming Group, has a pretty interesting take on the future (or at least, one good future) of mob…
Vivendi Games, the interactive entertainment unit of Vivendi, has bought Santiago, Chile-based Wanako Games, the largest game development st…
Modojo has a good interview with Kyu Lee (President of Gamevil USA) and Stan Liu (Vice President, Product Development at Walt Disney Interne…
VAS revenues from games falling, as per this article in Business Standard. Prices of games may be halved from Rs.50 to Rs.25, options such a…
– Reliance ADA Group company Zapak’s gaming portal for women, Zapak Girls has gone live. For now, the site is in beta, and most of the games…
Games2Win has signed up a team of professional gamers from India who will compete in key gaming tournaments in India and abroad. The team is…
Mobile Industry interviewed Gameloft’s president of marketing Gonzague de Vallois at 3GSM, mostly on Gameloft’s position on licences for mob…
Have been waiting for this to be unveiled: bcwebwise, the people who developed sunsilk gang of girls, attempted an alternate reality game (A…
Something of an aside: a bunch of initiatives around Valentines Day…
– Gaming Hungama has a couple of games up: ‘Love is in the Air’ and ‘…
Paprikaas Animation Studios, a gaming and animation outsourcing company, has received an undisclosed sum of investment from Technicolor Cont…
EA has made amongst its smallest acquisitions: it has bought a very young online karaoke site called SingShot, in an attempt to add social n…
The Economic Times has several updates on Jump Games in this story.
Gaming’s Bollywood and Celebrity fixation continues: Jump Games will be…
Apparently, Dhruva Interactive has been thinking about the online gaming space for some time now. The Economic Times had reported yesterday…
Ronnie Screwvala, CEO of UTV Software, in an interview with Business Standard says that he expects the new media business to mature in 2-3 q…
Mobile game developer I-play’s CEO David Gosen has said that mobile games are the key to the future of the gaming industry, reports GamesInd…
This is a first for Bollywood: Yashraj Film Studios, the producer of Bollywood Film Dhoom 2 have signed an agreement with FXLabs Studios to…
Indiagames has inked a deal to make Sify’s Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) ‘A3’available on it’s Games on Demand (Go…
Joanna Ferrone, the creator of the animated character Fido Dido was in India for the launch of a 2D game based on Fido Dido, created by Reli…
Nazara Technologies, which has rights for mobile content related to cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and MS Dhoni, has launched…
Reliance plans to enable mobile share trading, once SEBI allows it, says Mahesh Prasad, President-Application Solutions & Content Group for…
This has been buzzing around since Friday, when Slashdot amplified it: eBay has made a decision to ban auctions — real money trade, in indu…
Zapak, Reliance ADA Group’s gaming site, plans to launch a site specifically for women gamers called Zapak Girls, with around 25 games exclu…
Gameloft has signed on to make the mobile version of America’s Army, a game made in partnership with the US Army for the latter to promote i…
The final session on Day one of 3GSM India focused on gaming; moderated by Gopal Krishna, COO of Handygo.com, the session featured Sameer Ba…
The Union Minister for Communications & IT, Dayanidhi Maran said that in time, networks, applications and services will converge – storage a…
An interesting though not-a-game-changing deal: Nintendo has signed a deal with the AP to create a special news channel on the Wii Remote. D…
The market for virtual add-ons to online video games is slated for substantial growth, according to a study of console and handheld online g…
Casual game developer MumboJumbo has acquired games developer Ritual Entertainment, which has now migrated to the casual games market. This…
Game developer Kuju Entertainment has sold its mobile division and is moving out of mobile gaming, reports MobileIndustry.biz. COO Ian Baver…
Turns out there’s more to Second Life than arguing how many “people” are there. Showtime’s The L Word is heading to Linden Lab’s virtual wor…
From the beginning, paidContent.org was about chronicling the move from free to paid in digital media, so it’s always fun for us to find way…
Indiagames has launched a loyalty program for gamers, offering rewards worth Rs.2 crores. Players are rewarded for playing games at their Ga…
In case you’ve been wondering where Reliance intends to spend their $100 million, apart from the money to be spent on the development center…
Virgin Comics and Indiagames are two of nine companies to sign up with the ProGames Network. Indiagames has sold to ProGames, exclusive righ…
Wmode, a provider of mobile content managed services, has acquired ProvisionX, the third party mobile games delivery business belonging to G…
The Indian gaming industry has been estimated to be around $48 million in 2006 and is expected to cross $424 million by 2010, growing at a C…
People at Zapak have been having fun at everyone’s expense, it seems. They created an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) at idiedhere.com, as a bl…
Gaming certainly seems to be in vogue, and there are competitions aplenty. DNA profiles some gamers at the recently concluded Logitech Cross…
–Here’s some low-hanging fruit I’ve been waiting for someone to pick for years…popular strategy game Warlords is finally coming to mobile…
Reliance World has announced the launch of the GameBox National Championship, the finals for which will be conducted at SKOAR! 2007 Expo at…
Trip Hawkins has given a good interview running from Digital Chocolate all the way back to the start of EA, over at the Game Tycoon blog. Tr…
When big boys play, gaming becomes a capital-intensive business. Reliance’s gaming portal Zapak has tied up with bollywood actor Bipasha Bas…
In recent weeks, Clay Shirky has been on a mission to find out how many people are really using Linden Labs’ virtual world Second Life. Vall…
[By James Pearce] Mobile gaming firm In-Fusio is suing Microsoft, claiming the software giant is deliberately thwarting its efforts to creat…
A release informs us that Reliance Communications and Jump Games launched a mobile gaming contest called ‘Don Kaun’ on Reliance Mobile World…
D2C Games, an online and mobile casual gaming startup, has received $1.5 million in first round funding. The round in the San Mateo, CA-base…
Namco is offering free trials of its mobile games on Sprint, based on the idea that a significant portion of gamers want to trial a few game…
Reading through Glu Mobile’s S-1 filing I was interested in the details given about the licenses for branded games, which companies always r…
Some more details as I am reading through the longest S-1 I have seen in a while:
— Glu Mobile bought iFone earlier this year in March-Apri…
The S-1 filing with SEC has tons more info on the company, including revenues, strategy etc. Some topline facts:
— A portfolio of more than…
I spoke briefly to Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment, about their plans for digital content:
On Gaming: Gaming is a whole…
Reliance ADA Group’s Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. launched their online multiplayer cricket game, developed by Reliance’s Jump Games, in…
Areae, a new MMO development studio founded by experienced MMO vet Raph Koster, formerly of Sony Online, has officially launched. The compan…
ICICI Bank and Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division have launched the Xbox360 & ICICI Bank co-branded credit card. Customers get a…
Gameloft has launched an online store where people can buy games and then sideload them to their handsets. The service works via an applicat…
So reports PEHub…Major League Gaming, a professional video-game league based in NYC, has raised a big $25 million round from Oak Investmen…
HBO has teamed with Digital Chocolate to launch a mobile game based on the popular show The Sopranos. The game, dubbed The Sopranos Bada Bin…
Arun Mehra, CMO of Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd tells exchange4media that they will launch an online gaming cricket tournament, probably…
Justin Davis at Modojo has put forward an argument that mobile games need an age rating system — or at least, mobile games are now technica…
Red 5 Studios, an online video-game developer led by members of the team behind “World of Warcraft”, has raised $18.5 million in venture cap…
Some Anti-Piracy facts from a report in the Hindu Business Line:
– More than 600 pirated sites have been shut in India in the last seven yea…
Realtime Worlds, a Scottish online and console game developer, has received $31 million in funding, from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Th…
Are Indian’s taking to ‘Second Life’, the popular online virtual world? Apparently so…the Economic Times ferreted out some Indian’s also l…
In an interview with CIOL, Preeti Desai, COO Digital Business, Hungama says that around 24 percent of youth online are regular online gamers…
Reliance ADAG has lots planned for gaming in India: Tech 2.0 reports that Reliance ADAG plans to launch exclusive gaming cafes called Zapak…
–Pop band Destiny’s Child are getting their own-themed game, which will feature images of and songs by the R’n’B group. Square Enix has tea…
So reports BW, Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster is going to launch Rupture, a virtual social community for online gamers, in the next few m…
MobileIndustryBiz has the mobile excerpts of an interview with Game Developers Conference boss Jamil Moledina, who said that games still “pl…
Mohit Anand, Country Manager (India) for Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division had mentioned earlier that they intend to launch finan…
Reliance Communications has launched a stock market game called Stock Mania. Users need to download an application, and will be given a fund…
Indiagames will be distributing in India, mobile games developed by Scotland based developer Tag Games. The first game to be released in Ind…
–Ringtonia notes that Greenpeace is using “a special ringtone and text alert sound in its campaign for a moratorium on bottom trawling in t…
An article in Business Standard calls games at Zapak, Gaminghungama etc MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) and compares Bollywood bra…
Reliance Entertainment has launched its casual gaming portal Zapak.com. The company (Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd) has also tied up with…
It’s not just game development being outsourced, even the customer support and services in online gaming are out-sourced to back office comp…
Another game based on a Bollywood movie: Hungama has launched a multiplayer game based on the movie Baabul. It’s similar to the card game ‘M…
Demetri Detsaridis, Creative Director of Massively Mobile (a company recently started by ex-Gameloft and Activision vets) has written an opi…
This is generating a lot of discussion among gaming fans online: Icelandic publisher CCP Games, maker of the online role-playing game EVE On…
Gamasutra (and Modojo) has scored an interview with Atom Entertainment’s Games senior vice president Dave Williams about the launch of Shock…
Mobile Entertainment is reporting that Namco is increasing its mobile efforts in Europe, creating a separate entity called Namco Bandai Netw…
–Uclick Mobile has signed a deal with Paul Frank Industries to launch mobile content based on his characters. This content appears to be mo…
Indiagames is powering YOU PLAY, YOU Telecom’s Games on Demand service, reports Tech 2.0. The service is priced at Rs.199 for 100 games and…
The Cartoon Network is launching a video gaming championship for kids, called ‘Toonami: Game On, Video Gaming Championship’ in Mumbai, Delhi…
–Universal Pictures Offers Mobile Mashup: Universal Pictures has teamed up with Mobio to launch a Mobile Movie Times for the Nov. 17 releas…
We’d written earlier on Sify webcasting the Lakme India Fashion week live. More developments:
– In a case of art imitating life, Games2Win h…
Online role-playing gaming firm OGPlanet has just launched, and has received an undisclosed amount of funding from some industry veterans. T…
Update: according to an SEC filing, picked up by PEHub, the funding for the first round has increased to $10.86 million.
UK-based online ga…
Bunchball, a social gaming firm which allows casual Flash-based games to be embedded in blogs and other personal services, has received $2 m…
Business Week: Mobile game giant Gameloft has been dubbed the fastest growing company in Europe by BusinessWeek. That’s good news for Gamelo…
Hyderabad based DQ Entertainment is investing $4.6 mn into a gaming division developing games exclusively for Electronic Arts. They’ve signe…
Thumbplay distributing Sony content on mobile: “Thumbplay subscribers now have direct access to content from SPHE’s entire mobile content ca…
Digital Chocolate sales vice-president Tomi Torri follows the company line in this article, giving DC’s views on the types of mobile games w…
Airplay is one of the mobile games companies that has a different approach to mobile gaming than the standard casual/hardcore dichotomy. Its…
Major League Gaming, a professional video-game league, has bought out online console tournament site GameBattles.com…GameBattles.com’s 700…
Hubert Larenaudie has joined Electronic Arts as President Online for Asia. He replaces Erick Hachenburg who had quit in September. Laurenaud…
Exchange4media: Rediff.com plans to get into online gaming space. Rediff is a horizontal portal play with presence in content (news), email,…
In this interview David Gosen, CEO of I-play, claims the mobile games industry is about casual games rather than mobile versions of console…
Namco and Motorola will run a mobile retro gaming tournament, “with attendees of the DigitalLife entertainment and technology show battling…
We’ve heard this before (and I still find it surprising) but Nielsen’s 3rd annual “Active Gamer Benchmark” study has found that two-thirds o…
–CapCom has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless (and assumedly the guys behind Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) to promote its game Milliona…
David Gosen, CEO of I-Play, has warned that “the mobile gaming industry must not fall into the same trap as the console industry and create…
NDS Group, majority-owned by News Corp., has bought ITE, a Danish game design, development and publishing company. NDS sells access software…
The Open Mobile Alliance will lead a consortium of companies seeking to create open specifications for mobile gaming, to facilitate the deve…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was launched in India on 23rd September. The Economic Times reports that the Xbox will be endorsed by Bollywood star Ak…
Trion World Network, an online gaming firm founded by a former EA exec, has received funding from is Doll Capital Management and Trinity Ven…
Sify has announced a gaming tournament that will be played across 202 Sify Gamedromes in 60 cities, starting September 22nd. Counter Strike…
Yep, plain old SMS still rules, at least for Virgin Mobile USA: it has launched an SMS-based dating game, developed by Vibes Media, which pu…
A month ago, I had wondered why Indiagames hadn’t sponsored the World Gamemaster Tournament. Now I know why: The Times of India (Bangalore)…
With people like Vivendi, EA, Disney, the big entertainment companies getting into this, you’re no longer in a situation like four years ago…
This interview with Midori Yuasa, executive VP and general manager at Capcom, about the company’s US mobile game efforts was put up last wee…
I-play has teamed up with Universal Studios to create a mobile channel called Mobile Moments. It will offer short video clips of “memorable…
Red 5 Studios, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based developer of online multiplayer games, has secured $8.87 million of an $18.47 million first round, a…
Nintendo’s Wii console is to launch in the US on 19 November at $250 – half the price of the lowest-spec Sony PS3 and two days later. Micros…
I spoke to uclick about their mobile plans with the comic strips and manga issues they do. This is a service that falls outside the games/mu…
The mobile games panel at CTIA covered the normal thingsâ
This is the last MES panel, as I desperately try and catch up with CTIA…some of the themes that came out of the gaming panel at the end (w…
Gaming in India is apparently poised for a large explosion.
According to Rajesh Jain, Executive Director KPMG: –
KODE5 in association with Jasubhai Digital Media and SKOAR! Magazine have announced that their final regional finals will take place in Indi…
Shockwave.com, the pioneering online gaming site, part of Atom, which is now part of MTV Networks, has launched a mobile gaming section. The…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will be available in Indian stores on 23rd September ’06, and its launch will be broadcast live on MTV India. Microsoft…
Glu Mobile CEO Greg Ballard has answered some questions on the company’s acquisition of iFone and Glu’s position as the second-largest mobil…
Microsoft has announced a bunch of new games and accessories for its gaming platform Xbox 360 and its Windows PC system, but nothing yet on…
Fun Technologies, the London-HQd online and casual gaming firm majority owned by Liberty Media, has bought out St. Louis, MO-based fantasy s…
iWin, an SF-based online casual gaming company that offers puzzle, card and game-show online games, has raised $5 million in a third round o…
Excite Japan has signed up Ozura Mobile to distribute Excite’s mobile games “through its partners in the UK, Australia, China, India, Singap…
Stephane Labrunie, VP of Sales for Europe at I-play, has claimed at the Leipzig GC Developer Conference that mobile gaming is set to overtak…
Kiloo executive Karl Woods has advocated the the use of “free demos, sample levels or even ad-funded free games” in order to attract the vas…
Business Standard: Virgin Comics – a New-York-based company floated by spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, film maker Shekhar Kapur and British b…
An interesting column pointing out that the new batch of MVNO’s have exactly the attitude to mobile content that developers have been crying…
The World Gamemaster Tournament (WGT) begins in India tomorrow, on the 18th of August at Bangalore. A series of qualifying rounds will be he…
I guess this is becoming a trend. Bigger IT companies are moving into animation and game development. Satyam’s Nipuna already has such servi…
Glu Mobile has partnered with Garry Kasparov to produce Kasparov Chess, “which will be available on wireless carriers worldwide beginning in…
Here’s part two of QuicklyBored’s interview with Jason Ford, late of Sprint…he’s joined by Scott Rubin, Namco’s VP of Marketing. They bot…
Fun Technologies, the online gaming company majority owned by Liberty Media, is continuing its acquisition spree: it has now bought Teagames…
A Harris Interactive study commissioned by Real Networks, which just happens to have a large stake in casual gaming, shows that 31 percent o…
There’s so many jokes that could be made about “desperate” and “lost” in terms of mobile games, but I won’t…
ABC Entertainment and Touchs…
Business Standard: Microsoft is planning to launch Xbox Live online gaming service in India. Mohit Anand, Country Manager, Entertainment & D…
The Hindu Business Line: Hyderabad-based animation company Color Chips India plans to raise $10 million from overseas markets. The company h…
Last month Namco signed a deal with G-Mode to distribute the latter’s games in the US. G-Mode recognized that Namco already had strong relat…
Here’s a topical piece on Super Happy Fun Fun, a mobile games company in Austin, Texas that “has yet to score a major hit”.
“It isn’t an ea…
Chris James from PocketGamer has an article in BusinessWeek giving his Top Ten Hints for creating a really good mobile game. The hints are p…
Jason Ford has done a few interviews since moving from Sprint to Namco, possibly because the smaller company gives him more leeway and possi…
This is new and was disclosed in InfoSpace’s Q2 earnings call today: it has signed a deal with Activision to develop some its its console ga…
NBC has teamed up with Indiagames to launch a mobile game based on NBC’s popular show The Office. It’s described as a suite of games (six fo…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 looks set for a festive pre-Diwali launch, almost a full year after its November 2005 global launch. Chennai based Red…
This is part two of an interview with Travis Boatman, EA’s executive producer of mobile studios by way of Jamdat. Some quotes:
“If you’re ju…
Travis Boatman, EA’s executive producer of mobile studios by way of Jamdat, has given an interview about mobile games and the problems facin…
Last week I linked to a post saying that Trip Hawkins had said Digital Chocolate has 11% marketshare…Trip has clarified that figure for us…
To get an idea of what people in the mobile games industry are talking about, a short post over at Quickly Bored. Communication and Social N…
Trip Hawkins from Digital Chocolate had the 2nd day one keynote at the mobile games conference. If you’re familiar with Trip’s ideas this wi…
Daishiro Okada, President and COO of Square Enix was the opening keynote at the Mobile Games Conference. He presented some statistics (in th…
I don’t know how many of you were aware of Paris Hilton’s blunder at E3 in promoting a mobile game branded with her name — she not only arr…
Namco has formed a strategic partnership with Japanese game publisher G-Mode to distribute the latters mobile games (“a vast line-up of puzz…
Sulake, The Finnish company which operates the popular online teen community/roleplaying service Habbo, has received investment from Japan.…
SpaceWorks Entertainment has grabbed some funding from BellFund, which funds “the creation of excellent Canadian digital media, promoting pa…
There’s been an interesting confluence of commentary on mobile games, from people who are all saying the same thing but from different place…
Mobile media and marketing company Mobliss has announced a new president and CEO — Jim Merrick, formerly of Nintendo. At Nintendo Merrick h…
Neopets is having another crack at mobile, teaming up with In-Fusio to release a game which allows people to look after their Neopets on the…
Kosei Ito, head of Square-Enix’s mobile division, has said that the US is a much tougher market than Japan for a number of reasons, includin…
BusinessWeek has a piece on mobile games…”Games industry researchers forecast that with nearly 2 billion phones capable of playing games b…
PricewaterhouseCoopers has released an outlook for the global entertainment and media industry predicting it will grow at 6.6% annually, to…
Electronic Arts is buying Virginia-based Mythic Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. Mythic, founded in 1995, focuses on developing online…
Ed: We’ve mentioned Trip’s trip many times before here…social gaming. Anyway, our European contributor Peggy Anne Salz spoke to Trip Hawki…
THQ, a leading developer of mobile entertainment software, has announced the appointment of Robert Aniello as its senior vice president, wor…
In some ways mobile games epitomise mobile content — the pros and cons are the same, but more exaggerated. Device fragmentation is a proble…
Mobile content companies don’t have to restrict themselves to mobile phones…Fun Little Movies has just signed a deal with Microsoft to be…
TVHead, a games-on-demand service in the IPTV and cable/VOD market has raised $11.5 million in second round funding. The round was led by Ba…
Tribune Media Services (a subsidiary of Tribune) has announced plans to launch a white label mobile content service aimed at newspapers and…
John Carmack — who became a legend in the game world in his work on first person shooters — has defended the mobile phone as a platform fo…
Winster, a new online gaming startup, has received $1.5 million first round funding, led by U.S. Venture Partner, according to an SEC filing…
Vivendi Games CEO Bruce Hack has reaffirmed his companies committment to mobile games…”Hack believes that the prospects for the mobile spa…
Digital Chocolate has got a write-up in the New York Times… Trip Hawkins says all the stuff he normally does about the importance of makin…
This is interesting…Milan’s Bocconi University has partnered with Impressionware and Italian developer Tim to make a mobile game intended…
This is an interesting idea…Pocket Pal allows you to create your own mobile game in a mix’n’match fashion online before you download it to…
CTIA is really the big place for mobile games, but a few are unveiled at E3 — and there are some good ones in the works. For example, do yo…
“The thing about wireless [gaming] now is we’re going into this new market with all sorts of weird things going on, so we’re going to keep s…
A Microsoft exec has denied reports in the book The Xbox 360 Uncloaked that it is planning on releasing a handheld console, claiming that Mi…
Sennari has announced that its PrizePlay series of games has been played over 200,000 times in the UK in the first 3 months. I’m not sure wh…
Lagardere — the company behind Blingtones — has launched a mobile games site, BlingGames.com. The idea is to sell games that are targeted…
EA has hit a flat spot, with revenue growth coming to a halt this year and — according to this commentary — probably next year as well.
“…
This is the first for Verizon, and underscores the importance of online gaming to broadband access providers: it has bought a stake acquired…
Moving as slowly as Great A’tuin the first mobile game based on the Discworld series is apparently almost here. Blue Sphere Games originally…
Artificial Life has updated its award-winning game V-Girl, to be released in the third quarter of this year. Virtual Girlfriend 3.0 has been…
This interview with Angelo Rocca, business development manager at JavArt (a small Italian mobile games developer) covers the experience of a…
Miami Vice has made it to the mobile phone, with Player X landing the deal with Universal Studios to create the mobile game based on the upc…
A couple of days ago I linked to a BBC post on Brain Games, which are mobile games designed to boost your IQ. Barry O’Neill, CEO of the Dubl…
Online game publisher iEntertainment Network has launched a new division, iMagic Mobile, which will focus on “multiplayer technologies, mass…
MDisney (a mobile publisher for — you guessed it — Disney) has announced it is offering the Pirates of the Caribbean Multiplayer mobile ga…
Indiagames is launching The Office Games at the Games and Mobile Forum in New York City today. The mobile game is based on the US-version of…
There’s a wave of games out of Asia that are intended to increase your IQ. They don’t so much teach you stuff as exercise your brain. The bi…
Who’d of thought Digital Chocolate was more than just Trip? Jason Spero is Digital Chocolate’s VP of marketing, so he his answers are pretty…
Modojo has an interview with Vivendi Universal Games Mobile president Paul Maglione, who said that even though the unit only launched last m…
Namco Networks has announced a plan for a mobile PacMan tournament at upcoming games conference E3: “Daily qualifying rounds, of which there…
Yes, she will on your moble phones…Mobile games publisher Gameloft has signed a long term licensing agreement with Paris Hilton Entertainm…
I was lent a Nokia 6600 with RealArcade games preloaded to give the service a look. The games are collected in a folder in the main menu –…
Gotta love parochialism…the US behind just about everybody in terms of the ringtone market. Australia is closer to Europe in terms of prem…
I-play: I-Play has released a survey showing that consumers are on the whole satisified with their mobile gaming experience…I-play (a mobi…
Modojo: I tried out the Airplay service at the Mobile Focus event at CTIA — it’s pretty good. A simple user interface allows you predict wh…
[by James Pearce] I spoke to Michael Marchetti, the vice president and COO of EA Mobile, at CTIA. He reckons that the big problem with the g…
This was a full page cover ad in the latest issue of a trade magazine..I found it amusing, to say the least:
On a related note, read this p…
I did a fairly comprehensive interview with Glu CEO Greg Ballard today…I’ll transcode the audio on the weekend. He said the iFone but gave…
I met with Capcom USA which is a big games company that just launched a mobile games division in the US…they admitted they were playing ca…
At CTIA, CNET’s Annual Mobile Entertainment Awards, known as the Mobies, were awarded at CTIA yesterday…the archived webcast of the rather…
I had a quick chat with Derrick Morten, the general Manager of RealArcade, the mobile games division of Real Networks. Real launched the ser…
This was part of the Get In The Game panel (with Alan Duggan from Nephin Games, Harry Kargman from Kargo, Tammy Robinson from Verizon Wirele…
This was the last panel for me today…it included Alan Duggan from Nephin Games, Harry Kargman from Kargo, Tammy Robinson from Verizon Wire…
Some of the mobile games news coming out of CTIA…
Namco has announced that since the launch of its Pool Pro Online game less than a year a…
I’m at the Mobile Entertainment Summit (MES) hosted by iHollywood (finally recovering from a terrible flight). Anyway, the first speaker was…
So Glu itself doesn’t get sold out…it bulks up instead. After rumors that mobile game publisher Glu had been shopping itself around (and t…
Reuters: LivePlanet has revealed details of its upcoming game on Amp’d…”PhoneTag” incorporates location-based, mapping and messaging techn…
[by James Pearce] I spoke with game legend and EA founder Trip Hawkins about his vision for mobile games. He’s sticking to the same theme he…
Console gaming publisher THQ plans to enter the casual video games market, competing with EA., RealNetworks, and Yahoo, among others, an ana…
Glu Mobile and Encore Software have signed an agreement to bring Hoyle-branded card games for mobile phones. Hoyle is a leading brand of car…
You’re reading this here first … Atom Entertainment, one of the few entertainment companies to survive the digital ice age, is shifting it…
“Second Life” publisher Linden Lab has added $11 million in funding to a 2004 first round of $8 million. Globescan Capital Partners led the…
It’s EA Mobile now, if you go to Jamdat.com it will redirect to EA-Mobile.com…I’m assuming they would kill the Jamdat brand completely by…
At Contenido Movil I interviewed Matt Gillis, VP of business development for Cosmic Games, just after his panel with Suzanne Caporicci from…
Your World Games has developed a long-term RPG mobile game called The Shroud. The company is targeting the hard-core gamer market who find t…
Square Enix president Daishiro Okada said at the Games Developers Conference that most people still have a mental block when it comes to pla…
The characters of video game Transformers will now be available on mobile phones. Hasbro Properties Group, the intellectual property develop…
Gameloft has scored the exclusive rights to develop a game based on the movie Mission: Impossible 3, so it’s only going to be a mobile game…
AirPlay Network, a new SF-based mobile gaming and application company founded by Morgan Guenther, former president at TiVo, will introduce a…
Gameloft CEO Michel Guillemot has given an interview on the differences between the European and US markets. He puts the slow uptake of mobi…
This is cool…the Mobile Game Mosh is a competition held recently at the New York’s Parsons The New School for Design. The competition had…
An interesting interview with Jonathan Kromrey, technical producer at I-play, about developing mobile games… there’s the usual things abou…
So reports GameDaily: Xbox co-creator and former Infinium Labs exec Kevin Bachus is back in the game. Bachus will now serve as the CEO of Ni…
So reports GameDaily: Xbox co-creator and former Infinium Labs exec Kevin Bachus is back in the game. Bachus will now serve as the CEO of Ni…
It’s official…David Gosen has been retitled from Acting CEO to CEO of I-play. Gosen originally joined I-play in 2004 after leaving Nintend…
Now that Kayak Interactive and Synergix Interactive have consolidated and bought Chasma Interactive the now-united company is rebranding as…
The president of a start-up studio Ready at Dawn has derided PSP developers for making excuses for putting out bad games. Sure, he’s talking…
UK-based specialist media investment and advisory firm, Ingenious Media, is launching a news venture fund with plans to invest up to $90 mil…
Jonathan Kromrey from I-play has spoken about the development of the mobile game based on 24, announced earlier this month. Kromrey was a pr…
Austin, TX-based technology firm Bigfoot Networks, which is planning to market a hardware PC card which is intended to reduce in-game lag fo…
Israeli online gaming aggregation and delivery firm Exent has received investments by Intel and Cisco to further develop its portfolio of di…
I just had a look at the trailer for Empire Earth Mobile and am very excited…it’s a turn-based multiplayer strategy game, which I’ve been…
I-play has made a mobile game based on the TV series 24. Imaginatively dubbed 24 The Mobile Game it’s actually a series of mini-games throug…
Vivendi Universal Games has launched a new division, Vivendi Universal Games Mobile. It’s headed by Paul Maglione, fresh from a senior vp of…
Capcom Senior Vice President and mobile General Manager Midori Yuasa has said that Capcom will spend 2006 working their way into the mobile…
In-Fusio has scored the rights to make a mobile game based on the latest (eigth) Asterixmovie, an animation of Asterix and the Vikings due o…
What a neat idea…perfect for lazy people. Relax To Win uses a bio-sensor worn on the fingers to measure your level of stress…this is tra…
Two weeks ago I bemoaned the fact that no-one was integrating mobile gaming into other forms of gaming, merely doing mobile versions of game…
Namco has launched a mobile version of its popular title Time Crisis in 3D. It’s a big title but the interesting thing for me was the gamepl…
Video gaming leagues are common in Asia, but it it still building up in U.S. Major League Gaming, a private company, is seeking to elevate…
Artificial Life — developer of Virtual Girlfriend, V-Disco and an upcoming MMRPG — will launch a portal in March aimed at consumers. “The…
Here’s a blast from the past…Commodore International — the maker of the old Vic 20’s and Commodore 64’s that most of us started out with…
Gameloft entered the North American mobile games market in 2004 and quickly became one of the top companies in the market — with a lot of h…
Capcom has announced some new details of its mobile games plans, with a planned Los Angeles-based Mobile and Interactive Division headed by…
This is an interesting funding: Stardoll.com, a Stockholm-based online dress-up and make-over destination, has secured a $4 million in first…
It is still early for the company, as CEO Rob Glaser said in the Q4 conference call yesterday (transcript from Internet Stock Blog)…the co…
RealNetworks has signed a deal with cult band Gorillaz to create a game based on the band.
“Capturing the irreverent nature and irresistibl…
Here’s an indication of how mobile gaming is going… “Maui Texas Hold’em, a mobile multiplayer poker platform, and ChessEverywhere, a mobil…
Ideaworks’ VP of business development, Thor Gunnarsson,
has said that mobile gaming will eventually overtake console gaming. “Mobile gaming…
One of the biggest challenges with creating mobile games is porting them to all the different devices…now a group of 14 major players have…
Jill Braff, Glu Mobile’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and North American GM, claims that carriers are now looking for qualit…
Mobile gaming is getting big, with subsequent consequences and repercussions. One is that it is a lot harder to get onto the carrier decks -…
Finnish iTV and mobile gaming and applications firm RedLynx has received investment from 3i…wth this investment, 3i gets a 12.5% stake in…
Siemens has developed an “augmented reality (AR) football game for mobile phones” in preparation for the World Cup (Go Aussies).
“Kick Real…
UK game publisher Codemasters has appointed mobile content publisher and distributor Player X as its exclusive global distribution partner f…
After the ungodly amount of money he got, who’s to blame him? Henk Rogers, the founder of mobile gaming company Blue Lava Wireless, which wa…
Every few months someone else launches a Soduku mobile game — Guardian Unlimited in the UK has taken the next logical step and launched a S…
Graphic chip maker ATI has reported that demand for mobile TV and video is outpacing demand for 3D games. “We have been pushing 3-D for hand…
M:Metrics has announced some “preliminary results from its research at the Mobile Games Forum”.
“The UK has a market of 1.7 million consume…
Gamasutra has an article highlighting the key points of a mobile gaming panel at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show…speakers were Jamdat M…
NPD Group has a bulletin about mobile games, specifically what companies which wish to be successful should do. One interesting item of note…
Namco has signed a deal with United Media to create and distribute mobile content based on Dilbert. “Dilbert’s trials and tribulations as a…
File this under “cutsie”…Silicon Seeds and the Studio Devilish Games are announcing the launch of My Mobile+Pet, a virtual pet game with s…
European mobile gaming firm In-Fusio has separated into two entities — one will continue to develop and publish games under the In-Fusio na…
London-based online skill and gaming firm Fun Technologies, which is now majority-owned by John Malone’s Liberty Media, has bought out Tucso…
Glu Mobile has announced plans to launch Jamaican Bobsled in time for the 2006 Winter Olympics, based on the 1988 efforts of the Jamaican Bo…
SF-based casual game publisher PlayFirst has received $5 million in its second financing round, led by Rustic Canyon Partners. Existing inve…
Amp’d is doing the staggered release thing again…today announcing mobile games from EA. “FIFA 06, Madden NFL 06, NBA Live 06, Need for Spe…
John Carmack, the id guy who is responsibile for Doom RPG, has given some thoughts on mobile game development…
“I have been harping on abo…
Seattle-based online casual games company Big Fish Games, has bought out French-based casual game developer FunPause. FunPause recently deve…
THQ’s wireless division, THQ Wireless, has undergone some major restructuring, MocoNews.net has learned. Tim Walsh, the president of THQ Wir…
The N-Gage Arena Anytime Anywhere Tournament is a multi-user tournament that requires people to be ready to play the matches anytime, anywhe…
Namco is doing pretty well in the mobile game space (second in the US behind Jamdat according to Telephia) and this interview with Namco Net…
Boulder Dash: This old time classic is being released on mobiles (again) by iPlay…this new version has some updated graphics and features,…
Ubisoft’s mobile subsidiary, Gameloft, has reportedly sold almost as many games as its parent company — although the prices are a lot lower…
Gigamedia, a Nasdaq-listed Taiwanese digital media and games company, has bought out FunTown, an Asian online casual game portal and operato…
Funcom, the Norwegian developer of MMORPGs such as Anarchy Online and the upcoming Age of Conan, has riased about 30 million Euros in an IPO…
Microsoft is in the process of integrating MSN Messaging into its Xbox Live platform, and part of it is the ability to send/recieve alerts o…
Juice Wireless and US retail chain fye have launched a mobile store — Mobilefye. The site will sell mobile games, ringtones and songtones f…
Donnerwood, a digital content startup founded by ex-Listen.com CEO Sean Ryan, has recived $4.3 million in second round funding, acording to…
Korean-developed massively multiplayer title Ragnarok is to be made accessible on mobile phone handsets (which is known as “transmedial acce…
Really, why go anywhere else…we’ve done the hard work for you, on our sister site MocoNews.net:
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Mind Candy, a British company that is pioneering a new genre of online game known as alternate reality games, has secured a $3 million round…
Big Fish Games, an online casual gaming company based in Seattle, has received $5 million in venture funding.
The money, which was provided…
M:Metrics recently claimed that 90% of all content sold is via the carrier deck… Senior Analyst Mark Donovan talks about what effect this…
This is of note mainly because of the size and history of Nintendo… it’s making ringtones and wallpapers from its most popular games avail…
Popular TV gameshows including The Price Is Right, Family Feud, Blockbusters, Sale Of The Century and Strike It Lucky are being ported to mo…
When there are at least 600 movies produced a year in Bollywood, then it has to engender a digital revolution too. This one is on mobile.
S…
Airborne Entertainment and National Hockey League Interactive Cyber Enterprises (NHL ICE) have signed a three-year deal for NHL-based mobile…
In the third part of his interview with Mobile Industry Tim Harrison (head of games at Vodafone) talks about Vodafone’s position on quality…
RealNetworks has launched its mobile games service RealArcade in the UK and Ireland, on O2’s i-mode service. The games include classics such…
French online games download firm, Paris-based Metaboli, which develops games download platforms specifically for broadband networks, has ra…
Roobarb & Custard (a 70s cartoon show, pictured right) is moving to mobile following a successful relaunch on Roobarb & Custard Too on Five’…
(via Sharkjumping) Not that this is a surprise, considering non-n-gagement of N-Gage: Nokia is holding off on mobile gaming for a few years…
Microsoft has an ambitious mobile game agenda, focussed around integrating mobile games with Xbox and MSN Games. Suggestions range from play…
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up by Atari & Glu won the Best Wireless Game (viewers choice) award at the Spike TV Video Game Awards…
I-play is launc…
Arun Gupta, Chief Operating Officer, Mauj Telecom, a telecom solutions and content provider company, says in India, around 0.45 million game…
Media giant Liberty Corp. is buying a majority stake in online skill and gaming firm Fun Technologies.
The London-based and AIM-listed compa…
iFone saw a great success with the Lemmings mobile game, based on the old computer game that so many people loved. Following the current tre…
Multiplayer mobile games may become a $1 billion market in the next three years, according to this article…
“The idea is to extend “mobile…
This is the second part of Mobile Industry’s interview with Tim Harrison, head of games at Vodafone. This section focusses on advanced games…
Artificial Life has announced plans to release a new game in December — Virtual Penguins. The massive multi-user 3G game will see players t…
In-Game advertising is a hot area, and NYC-based IGA Partners are about to close a $10 million plus (might close at $13-15 million rage) fir…
Virgin Mobile USA has launched Players Club from Motricity, which will allow Virgin users to “take on gamers from other US carriers while ta…
Capcom Entertainment is planning to release its games on mobile phones… Games mentioned as preparing for mobilization are Ghosts and Gobli…
GameTrust, the NYC-based online casual games network, has closed “an oversubscribed” $9 million second round financing. The round was led by…
Mobile Industry has interviewed Tim Harrison, the mobile games guru at Vodafone — well worth a read if you’re into that sort of thing (and…
Digital Chocolate, the mobile gaming company started by Trip Hawkins, has appointed a new board member and VP Sales. Mobile industry veteran…
Ziff Davis Media has acquired FileFront.com, a videogame downloads site. The acquisition, by the company’s game group, will add to its 1UP N…
BBC has produced its first mobile phone video game…based on the hit spy drama Spooks, the game was launched last week. Players can downloa…
I’ve been expecting something like this for a while, and am pretty sure some games or companies already do sell the music from their games..…
Electronic Arts, the biggest video game company, is moving into music…it is teaming up with Canadian music label Nettwerk Entertainment to…
Picturephoning has a post about an interesting game…Shoot Me If You Can is billed as an urban game inspired by first-person shooters… pl…
“I am not happy. I said we needed to sell six million in three years, and we sold one-third of that. We need to make some changes,” said Ans…
AtomShockwave, the online games and entertainment company, has acquired AddictingGames, a Canadian directory of the most popular casual game…
Brian Greasley has stepped down as CEO of i-Play with David Gosen, currently Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed acting Chief Execut…
This is a long and detailed post about mobile multiplayer games, the challenges of creating and marketing them and the opportunities for tho…
Carlo Longino has put up another post on the Austin Game Conference, this one on a talk by Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but…
Carlo Longino is at the Austin Game Conference…the keynote was by Jason Ford, the general manager of games and entertainment for Sprint Ne…
The sudoku craze is still going strong and uclick has joined in with another mobile sudoku game. However, it’s an interesting move for uclic…
3UK has put up a couple of multi-player mobile games from Synergenix which allow people to buy lives and join multiplayer games. “Each multi…
This article is a comprehensive summary of the mobile market in the UK and Europe…some interesting quotes:
“The International Federation o…
Frontier Developments has signed a deal with Aardman Studios to acquire the worldwide rights to publish games based on the hit TV show Creat…
Electronic Arts has announced that The Sims 2 will be available on mobiles in December, as the last part of its plan to put the game on all…
Nintendo has tied up with McDonald’s to offer free Wi-Fi access for its Nintendo DS portable game system, so that users can play online at t…
Kayak Interactive has landed a world-wide multi-year contract with Sony Pictures Digital to make mobile games based on select Sony Pictures…
Well, it’s here…The Annoying Thing (aka Crazy Frog) has become a console game due for release this November…the website is CrazyFrogGame…
Zingy has signed a deal with Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) to distribute content from Paramount Pictures…”Zingy will be gr…
iFone has licensed some mobile gaming technology from Terraplay…”The technology offered consists of a powerful lobby and community server…
In-Fusio has announced the launch of its new Entertainment and Gaming Extensions (EGE) platform. It seems to be middleware that offers custo…
Namco America has signed a deal with United Media to make mobile games based on the legendary Peanuts characters.
“In his first appearance…
Tuner’s ambitious online gaming service GameTap will launch coming Monday…for a $14.95 a month subscription, you can download the GameTap…
There’s a couple of games announced recently that are more role-playing than FPS, and which are likely to lend themselves to becoming multip…
MovilGamers.com and Stratos-ad.com has announced the “First Competition for Videogame Development for Mobile Phones”. The competition, open…
Mobile pundits have been screamingly misread which mobile content trends will be successful…so is the fact they’re backing mobile TV so st…
Textually has picked up on a WSJ story on mobile games, with some interesting figures. The number of mobile phones which can download games…
A few months after announcing its intentions to sell off a mobile subsidiary Namco has announced plans to form a mobile game subsidiary. Wel…
A few people have e-mailed me this week asking if I knew anything on Jamdat…the shares have been depressed for the last two week, for not…
IFone has signed a deal to distribute eight Sega game titles for download onto mobile phones…The titles listed include Sonic The Hedgehog,…
Nokia has launched an online campaign, N-Gage Academy, to “teach mobile phone users how to download and share games”. People with the right…
Electronic Arts — the largest electronic games company in the world — has signed a deal to put its mobile games on the Vodafone Live porta…
I got the chance to play with several games at CTIA which until now I’ve only read about. I was impressed with the advances in technology re…
Investment banking firm Kaufman Bros went to CTIA, and thought the atmosphere was “somber” and “cautiously enthusiastic”. They sent a short…
Lincoln Wallen, CTO of EA’s Mobile division, said that as mobile games get more complex — not just because of better handsets but also beca…
At last! This is one of the games I’ve been waiting to be put on mobile ever since the devices got color screens…it’s low-hanging fruit th…
Xfire,the online gaming platform and community, has closed a $5 million follow-on round led by Granite Global Ventures. Xfire’s existing inv…
London-based mobile gaming publisher Player X has received $7 million in a first round of venture funding. The investors include venture cap…
Carlo has a good post up on a keynote from Trip Hawkins (from Digital Chocolate) about mobile games…Rafat has posted the audio to that key…
“Software publisher Konami Europe has announced the creation of a dedicated mobile phone games division, with plans to bring key console con…
Square Enix — publisher of the wildly successful MMORPG Final Fantasy XI — will increase its focus on mobile gaming, and will launch mobil…
The panel on mobile games at CTIA was a fairly heated affair…the panelists were Jason Ford, General Manager, Games Sprint Nextel; Michael…
The biggest game announcement out of CTIA is that In-Fusio has won the rights to publish mobile applications based on “Halo”, the amazingly…
Trip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Chocolate (founder and former-CEO of mega-gaming behemoth Electronic Arts), certainly knows how to coin phrase…
Had a quick chat with Jeff Nuzzi, Global Director of Marketing at THQ Wireless, where he explained the big picture vision for THQ in mobile.…
We believe that mobile interconnected gaming is one of the biggest opportunities in the history of mankind — Bill Barhydt, CEO Sennari
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Tech publishing company Ziff Davis has acquired GameTab, a small site which aggregates news and review scores, reports Gamasutra. The acquis…
Our journalist in Delhi, S Karat, is doing a bang-up job covering the first ever Indian mobile gaming confrence being held now in Delhi, Ind…
Our sister-site ContentSutra is covering the Mobile Gaming Conference in New Delhi. Vishal Gondal of Indiagames outlines what he sees as th…
Enda Carey, Marketing Director of iFone, gives a good interview here which outlines some aspects of the mobile game industry. One interestin…
I think the current debate over what type of games to put on mobiles — gee-whiz console-like games or simple puzzle games — miss the fact…
This week our sister site ContentSutra will be covering the Mobile Gaming Conference which will be held in Delhi (The first ever such confer…
Player X and Frontier Developments to launch the mobile game for forthcoming movie, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Tony Pe…
Paul Maglione from I-play gave the company’s perspective on mobile gaming and how it will take off in the future. “What we’ve done different…
This is kinda interesting, and excellent analysis: Linden Lab, developers of popular virtual role-playing game “Second Life”, plan to launch…
Here’s something interesting…
“We are developing a new multiplayer pervasive game, called The Drop, designed to be compelling to play and…
[by Mike Butcher] Bill Barhydt, CEO of Sennari (the mobile loyalty company), previewed for MocoNews a major announcement it plans to make w…
Petteri Vainikka from Rovio Mobile has suggested that trying to develope mobile games with global appeal is a losing proposition, for the mo…
Oscar Clark is the Games Products Manager at 3UK, and here he talks about his experience in the mobile games industry…he mentions the succ…
Andy Riedel from InfoSpace Mobile has penned a piece about mobile game communities and how to build them. He makes the obvious point that ca…
Nintendo Mobile has launched with sound and graphics from the Super Mario series for a subscription of
Sony’s VP of studios Phil Harrison spoke on mobile gaming at the Game Developers’ Conference in London, and predicted that the will yield “h…
Werd Interactive has released some games for mobile phones…the games are simple but of the addictive type that seem to do so well. What ma…
Namco’s wireless business–which has mobile versions of Pac-Man and Dig-Dug in the market– is going through a growth period today thanks to…
Gamasutra’s doing some great coverage of the ongoing GDC Europe conference, especially the mobile gaming part of it. This one is a report on…
Mobile games publisher Telcogames and video games publisher Codemasters today announced a deal to bring a number of classic games titles to…
IGN, the gaming media company, which has filed for an IPO, has filed an amended S-1…and some numbers on its acquisitions (these numbers we…
Mobile games aren’t taking off (at least, not as fast as people in the industry would like) because not enough is being done to promote them…
Independent online gaming/MMOG developer Funcom has raised investment of about $6.13 million for future development and expansion, from Nord…
The interesting thing about this piece is diversification…Sandager Small Games mostly sells Java games but is looking to “expand the range…
Proof positive that supply and demand can create a viable market even when the merchandise is virtual. The results are in from the first 30…
At least, the next game hero that becomes an icon (ala Lara Croft, Mario or Sonic Hedgehog) is more likely to come from a mobile game than a…
Kiloo, the Danish games developer, has won the rights to create mobile products based on the Lego brand. It has signed a global deal (exclud…
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IGN, the online gaming lifestyle media company which last month filed for an IPO, has also been the speculation of a buyout target by, who e…
Two online gaming infrastructure providers have merged: NDL, the makers of Gamebryo 3D graphics tools and engine, and Emergent Game Technolo…
Artificial Life — of V-Girl and V-Disco fame — is apparently planning a massively multiplayer role-playing game for mobiles. The Java game…
BlingTones — best known for the wireless record label it launched last year — has entered the mobile game business (at least, this is the…
Infinium Labs, the oh-so-elusive online gaming company which is taking forever to launch its gaming platform, has named its current COO Kevi…
EA, which released its Q2 earnings late last month, recently filed its 10-Q quarterly report with SEC, and has some figures on its mobile ga…
Another mobile phone for kids, but this one should be a lot less controversial…LeapFrog Enterprises — which offers technology-based educa…
This is an interesting piece of news for small games developers…UK mobile game developer Creative North has “applauded the considerable in…
Spanish mobile games developer m-Solution has released a game based on the running of the bulls at Pamplona, which sounds cool…I don’t kno…
“Digital marketing consultancy Panlogic has launched its first mobile game, designed to coincide with the Ashes cricket series between Engla…
Russian game developer Buka Entertainment, based in Moscow, has recived venture funding from investment company Finam and EBRD North-West an…
Glu Mobile, the mobile games publisher, has appointed Joe Poletto to the position of senior VP of worldwide publishing. Poletto joins Glu fr…
Radio Shack, which just booted out Verizon and has signed up Cingular and Sprint for in-store mobile services sale, will also sell Jamdat’s…
In-Fusio is a giant of the mobile games sector and can boast a heritage going back further than any of its rivals. But its journey has been…
i-Play has released the results of a survey into the barriers for people downloading mobile games onto their handsets. The survey — carried…
An interview with the head of gaming company Square Enix’s mobile division, Kosei Ito. The division has quickly ramped up from its modest be…
GamesIndustry.biz has run an interview about the recent deal between iPlay and Fox Mobile concerning a ’24’ mobile game. The players were ve…
“The mobile industry is currently facing a huge problem. There are… what? Something in the area of 12 multiplayer technologies out there?…
PixelPlay, the NYC-based gaming tech company, has launched a cross-platform gaming service that enables set-top and mobile phone users to go…
July Systems has launched what it claims is the UK’s first-ever mobile games subscription service ‘PlayOn!’ on the popular mobile portal Mob…
Vodafone and Player X have teamed to offer ‘mobies’, billed as “a cross between a mobile game, a tamagotchi and a screensaver”. Earlier this…
I-Play has scored the license rights to a mobile game based on the hit TV show 24. “Under an exclusive two-year deal, I-Play has licensed th…
Artificial Life has released Version 2.0 of the award winning game V-Girl…the new version has “many new interactive and innovative feature…
The first Casual Games Conference had a lot to say about mobile games, with a panel consisting of Jason Ford from Sprint, Mike Yuen from Qua…
Bunch of interest around casual gaming these days: casual games are web-based or downloadable (or even mobile) games which have a small size…
John Batter, EA VP and Mobile General Manager, plays hide-and-seek, when asked about EA’s interest in buying Jamdat or Superscape. Yes, they…
This is for the sake of completeness…in addition to Verizon offering mobile games developed by Electronic Arts third-placed telco Sprint w…
Vivendi Universal Games has formed a mobile gaming unit and will launch five new mobile games based on its global franchises. The first two…
Well, the rumor continues: there have been some rumblings in the industry that EA is looking to buy Jamdat. This follows EA’s rumored intere…
The first mobile game based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels is due for an October release in the UK. Based on ‘The Colour of Magic’ th…
IGN, the Brisbane, CA-based online gaming media company, has filed for an IPO on Nasdaq, instead of a rumored sale. The number of shares to…
Boonty, the NYC-based dowloadable video games ASP, has raised $10 million in its second round of venture capital financing. Rothschild Gesti…
Proteus has landed a deal with Wizards of the Coast to put content based on the famous card game “Magic: The Gathering” on mobile phones. “P…
The hypothesis put forward in this article is that there are two distinct paths mobile game companies can take. The first is to go after the…
As Yahoo moves into the mobile space, it will be using the same strategy it did online — use casual gaming to capture the large female and…
LivingMobile is launching a mobile racing game based on CannonballRun Europe…a rally based on an interesting ‘race’ from the early 1970’s…
Ah, retro is back…Etch-a-Sketch — the game which involved turning knobs to draw on a screen — has been ported to mobiles. You use the ar…
PartyGaming, the controversial online-poker conglomerate, made a huge opening on its IPO in London market, giving it a market cap of more th…
Another legendary PC game has made it to the mobile world…an agreement between id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive will see Quake…
MTV Networks has formed an interactive games unit…MTV Games will work in-house through its newly created interactive entertainment studio,…
Last week Vodafone global content boss Graeme Ferguson berated mobile games producers for the low quality (‘crap’ was the word used) of mobi…
Vodafone global content boss Graeme Ferguson has slammed the makers of mobile games at the ELSPA International Games Summit, claiming many g…
Nickelodeon is launching a revamped version of its arcade for the younger set, according to the Hollywood Reporter — showcasing 60 or so pr…
Tamagotchi, the game that spawned the portable sim pet craze that has made its way onto mobile phones in various ways will make the switch t…
British mobile content developer Touchlink Mobile has announced a partnership with eFUSION, the South Korean-based Master Content Provider…
I’m not sure if this has been done before, but it’s a new one on me: a trailer for a mobile game. Set to spooky mood music you can watch sc…
PricewaterhouseCoopers has come out with its annual report on the state of the media and entertainment industry and outlook for the next fiv…
An interview with general manager of Yahoo Games Geoff Graber to discuss the company’s upcoming plans. With Yahoo! Texas Hold ’em Poker, Yah…
Glu Mobile, the new name for the merged entity of mobile gaming players Sorrent and Macrospace, gives detailed reasoning for the name change…
SK Telecom has announced the launch of three games which are controlled by moving the handset rather than using the keypad…the handsets (L…
So I’m getting ready to publish about an NY Post report (reg. req.) claiming an exclusive on the news that IGN has put itself on the block w…
As we reported yesterday, Neopets, the online and mobile avatar/animated charcater and pets company, has been bought out by Viacom (well, te…
Well. technically I’m back in LA, but some left over coverage from the MEM conference earlier this week in London: I heard about a rumor tha…
Mike Yuen, gaming group director at Qualcomm, explained how innovative, cross-platform game design could lead to mass-market adoption of mob…
Leading figures in the mobile gaming industry came together at MEM05 to disucss the need to “deliver quality titles to market — identifying…
Taneli Armanto created “the world’s most popular game”, Snake. “Most popular” = “on the most handsets” (350 million mobile phones), but I th…
“Speaking at the Mobile Entertainment Market event in London this morning, I-Play publishing and marketing VP Paul Maglione said that the mo…
This game takes a fairly standard concept but improves it by linking it to images from the mobile phone…”Shoot at flying targets through t…
Aurona Technologies, a UK-based wireless and gaming provider, has teamed up with a slew of international carriers for its gaming and locatio…
Informa Telecoms & Media has released a Mobile Games Analyst report covering the reach of mobile games publishers in Europe (not the sales,…
China will continue to crack down on online games with “inappropriate content” — namely “pornography, sex, gambling, violence and other unh…
Telcogames has launched a Symbian games pack on a Multimedia Memory Card (MMC) that will be sold through the retail stores of The Carphone W…
Artificial Life has launched the website for its upcoming product V-Disco, which will let people choose an avatar and visit a virtual disco…
The steady trickle of Amp’d news just keeps on coming…M7 Networks will power Amp’d’s Game Connect service, which “be a virtual community…
IDG is going all-guns in expanding into Asia, in China, India and now Vietnam…it has formallly opened a IDG Ventures Vietnam office and in…
IGN, the online gaming media company, has bought out AskMen.com, a male lifestyle portal. The financial terms were not diclosed.
AskMen.com…
Also in this story on EA-Qualcomm tie-up, news that gaming company THQ, which has created a mobile subsidiary, will invest $20 million in mo…
Verizon Wireless has released lists of its top-selling content in various categories on its Get It Now service. If you skip the guff and go…
Missed this one earlier this month (and came to my attention via Tolman’s column below): Future plc – the UK-based publishing empire behind…
In a general story on the potential of mobile gaming, some interesting figures on the portability/compatibility issues for different handset…
SmartVideo, which seems to continually announce new additions to its mobile video channel, has come out with something new. It’s partnered w…
This is crazy, but kind of unfair in comparison: the Crazy Frog ringtone, about which we’re written in detail here before, appears to be jum…
Amp’d, the MVNO aimed at young people into extreme sports, has announced its gaming plans…the details are in the article, the most…
Nokia has announced at E3 that it will make its N-Gage playable on its smartphones, which is good news for developers who can now create one…
“Alltel is putting its bet on 3D mobile gaming. The carrier announced Extreme Air Snowboarding, Slam Basketball, and Trophy Whitetail Huntin…
Jamdat has signed a deal with id Software to publish “Doom RPG” for mobiles in conjunction with the release of the upcoming Doom movie…”DO…
Nobody should be surprised that mobile games are making a big splash at E3, so we’ll cut right to the chase. Game journo Keith Stuart has co…
Sudoku is the game found in many newspapers which involves filling in an unfinished grid of numbers…it’s the sort of simple game which doe…
Blue Sphere Games “will release its plans for 2005 at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles”, which isn’t incredibly interesting…
Verisign’s mobile games publishing unit, Ojom, has signed a deal with Sony to produce mobile games from select movie and TV shows. Titles i…
A long look at whether cable operators, DBS platforms and telcos may use interactive games as the lure to get new customers and revenue. But…
Rap group G-Unit has signed up with Zingy to produce some mobile games…which sort of cements the music genre’s status as the king of cross…
Boonty, which is in the online downloadable games business, has launched a mobile games store with over 1,000 titles to choose from.
“The B…
The complaints by the GSMA over the digital rights management licensing conditions set out by MPEG LA are “a tactical necessity, aimed at he…
InfoSpace Inc has introduced the Virtual 3D Simulator, a cutting-edge mobile engine that brings a rich 3D game experience to 2D handsets. No…
Fathammer has signed a deal to provide 10 3D games for SK Telecom’s new game phones. Perhaps more importantly the contract also includes Fat…
Researchers at the University of Bradford in the UK have been award a grant of
Games Workshop has signed a deal with THQ Wireless to release a mobile game based on “Space Hulk”, part of the Warhammer 40K universe. “Spac…
G-Unit, the urban brand founded by hip-hop artist 50 Cent, expanded its relationship with mobile media company Zingy to create an unusual se…
Forbes Magazine has run a very good 4-page story on mobile content…covering pretty much everything including the fact that some people are…
Turbine, a Westwood, Mass.-based multiplayer online game publisher, has raised $30 million in second round of funding, accoridng to PE Week…
IGN Entertainment, which made the smart move of going private a couple of years ago (and seems like a potential buyout candidate, or even IP…
July Systems has signed a deal to launch its Play2Win interactive mobile game service on the portal MobileGaming.com, run by MobileStreams.…
Greg Ballard, the boss of mobile games firm Sorrent/Macrospace and former head of games firm Capcom US, has predicted that “2005/6 were goin…
Engadget scored an interview with Bill Gates and used the opportunity to question where Microsoft is going in the console and mobile device…
This is the fruit of its recent acquisition of Stadeon…it has announced Yahoo Poker, a game it will unveil at E3 which lets mobile phone u…
This is great…The Rocket has signed a deal to publish Pinball Dreaming — an old pinball game originally put out for computers in the 90’s…
Something that has the potential to be big in mobile content are massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Of course it can…
So this is what Turner had been working on for a long time: a broadband games aggregation network…GameTap combines games on demand with or…
July Systems and Deep Visions have teamed up to offer “a try-before-you-buy mobile games service” on the mobile portal Firstfun.TV. The site…
Verizon has scored an exclusive to offer Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm exclusively on its VCast service. Jungle Storm puts the play…
The NPD Group has released stats of the first quarter sale of video games in the US, and found that portable games are leading the charge wi…
“PlayFon, Russia’s leading provider of wireless entertainment, today announced that it has signed a deal with I-play, the mobile games compa…
“The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association compiled mobile game data for the first time from 2004…It produces the offi…
Motorola is offering multiplayer games from its Hellomoto portal. “Multi-player games on hellomoto.com mean that users in Taiwan, for exampl…
InfoSpace has teamed up with Morpheme Wireless to release another game in its “Pub Series”. “Pub Pinball challenges players to test their sk…
“The Finns and Koreans are at war over mobile TV…Both sides have been showcasing competing technologies at the MIPTV-Milia digital content…
So says Trip Hawkins, founder of games behemoth Electronic Arts. He’s started Digital Chocolate (motto: seize the minute) and is concentrati…
I-play (formerly Digital Bridges) has signed a deal with Spanish Telefonica to offer its suite of mobile games directly from Telefonica’s em…
Mobile gaming has been compared to the early years of PC gaming…”It is reminiscent of the early 90s, when PC gaming was about to break. Fo…
The Russian mobile games market in Russia amounted to 5.3m units sold, or â
Vindigo has announced it will get into mobile gaming, probably as a response to mobile games becoming a strong contender for most sought-aft…
Pacman has hit 25 years this year, and owner Namco is celebrating the franchise being “2004’s best-selling mobile game on several of the wor…
The mobile game company formerly known as Digital Bridges is being threatened with legal action after changing its name to I-play. Games pub…
In an inspired (or desperate) attempt to reach an apathetic public and get them to consider a political issue the Liberal Democrats in the U…
Following in the footsteps of virtual pets and Vivienne, the virtual girlfriend, Jamster is offering a watered down version – living wallpap…
Clickgamer is giving away a free Windows Mobile Pocket PC game — “High Noon Drifter – Dead Man’s Gulch” — to celebrate/promote the redesig…
For those of you unfamiliar with Happy Tree Friends it’s a series of short cartoons of friendly little furry creatures doing unspeakably gra…
“Prhaps the most promising sign for innovative mobile gaming to come out of the Games Developers Conference was an emerging methodology of m…
Artificial Life’s V-Girl has won another award. The award was issued for the professional category at the 3rd Hong Kong Digital Entertainmen…
3 will launch multiplayer games on its mobile network in April. Initial real-time games will include No Refuge, a tank battle war game from…
Here’s a good overview of the mobile games segment of the Games Developer Conference. Definitely worth the read if you’re interested in mobi…
Here’s a few snippets of mobile content news that came out this week that may have passed you by…
Bango Provides On-Bill Payment In USA:…
Games for the next generation of consoles will cost between $10-$25 million to make, so new studios are suggested to “make games for mobile…
The Register pointed to a press release from SanDisk about an announcement at CTIA on DRM enabled Flash Cards. “This will allow mobile netwo…
Gamespot announced the winners for The Second Annual Wireless Gaming Awards, also known as The Mobies, at the CTIA WIRELESS 2005 conference…
Zone4Play has bought out its partner NetFun to become the sole owner of MixTV, getting all of MixTV’s patented broadcast TV technology. “The…
Electronic Arts has announced the launch of EA Mobile, which will release “between 15-20 cell-phone games this year, mainly popular titles l…
A study by M:Metrics found that only 58% of users of mobile phones in the United States used the handset for non-voice functions between Nov…
Mobile developers are scrambling to license the rights to popular brands for the mobile space – at least, the big ones are. “It’s become a h…
Mobile games are being held back by several factors, according to this article, including a “lack of easy integration between game publisher…
Bad news for hardcore gamers – at the Games Developer Conference 2005 firms are focussed on “the casual gamer, connected via the ubiquitous…
A couple of gaming guys have gone on a “world tour of mobile games” for a presentation last monday at the Games Developer Conference. There’…
News.com has seven images of Vivienne – the virtual girlfriend developed by Artificial Life – and other areas of her life such as her workpl…
Indiagames has landed a deal to license the World Cyber Games Competition for mobile phones for three years. “Indiagames will be actively wo…
Crazy Frog turns into a real prince: That’s right – when future generations look back at the beginning of the 21st century they will find th…
Paul Palumbo has interviewed Jill Braff, VP of marketing for Sorrent, about the mobile game industry. The 25 minute talk covers a wide range…
My favorite trickster John Constantine has hit mobile phones in a game from Warner Bros Online. Unsurprisingly the game is based not on the…
Based on Jamdat’s fourth quarter results announced recently the mobile game industry is looking healthy. “Jamdat’s performance was especiall…
THQ Wireless is taking South Park to Europe, launching games, video clips, ring tones, wallpapers, screensavers and MMS. Along with South Pa…
Jumbuck Entertainment has launched a 3D mobile chat room service (egotistically dubbed “Jumbuck Island”) on Britain’s o2 mobile service. Thi…
An audio panel on the business opportunity in mobile gaming…Are 3D games just around the corner? What does this mean for the classic games…
Refer-X has launched a service where people can get rewarded for recommending content (games, at the moment) to their friends. “We only know…
I don’t think its going to be a “killer app”, which is normally defined as something that causes the majority of the population to use a par…
InfoSpace, which has bought out three mobile gaming related companies in the last year or so (mostly in Europe), has formed a gaming divisio…
So here’s how you miss stories: Jay Samit told me about this in September last year, in passing, and of course, I should have connected the…
CNet has a good article on 3D sound, which is only in Japan at the moment (I’m pretty sure), and the technology used by Sonaptic called psyc…
“Sony is going to be looking for mobile content that moves outside of traditional gaming, so any mobile-content providers that can configure…
The Register is running a report by Screen Digest about mobile games and why they are taking off. As mobile penetration approaches saturatio…
A Finnish TV show about the gaming lifestyle called Tilt.tv sells mobile java games for 5-7 euros. Nothing particularly interesting there, b…
Billing solutions company CSG has a few things to say about the Asian mobile content market, and specifically its place in it. “While CSG se…
By all accounts Indians are going crazy over mobile phones, and mobile phone content. Actress Madhuri Dixit now has her own avatar, and mobi…
“The Financial Times reported on Monday that Chris Gorog, Napster chairman and chief executive, said the firm may apply its online music mod…
Samsung is promoting mobile gaming with a competition aimed at gamers. After downloading “Babe Rally” from the Samsung Fan Club players can…
3D gaming is coming closer and closer to being commonplace. I’m guessing it also won’t be long before 3D movies become reasonably commonplac…
BVRP Software has joined the rush to open online mobile content stores, opening Mobileffects.com. The site sells people points to redeem for…
This article uses the recent deals between mobile content publishers and owners of cartoons and comic characters to explain how the mobile c…
“Blue Sphere Games Ltd, a leading Mobile Games Developer, today announced it will distribute its Java Games to mobile network subscribers wo…
Touchlink has ported three of its games to Hutchisons 3UK network, and has hopes the content will spread to Hutchison’s other 3G networks ar…
Samsung Electronics has released a handset with an ‘Accelerometer’, which allows it to “accurately calculate and ascertain movement in three…
IN-FUSIO, a leading mobile games publisher and game service provider, today announced that it has joined O2 to deliver its range of critical…
The big news at the moment is the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held in Las Vegas from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th…
First a “mobisode”, now hit TV show 24 is a mobile game. “Available today at http://www.fox.com/24, the graphically rich 3D game ’24:Countdo…
Zoo Tycoon 2 has made the leap from PC to mobile. Aside from the normal game play, there’s another game mode: Zoo Tycoon Mobile Photo. This…
“Broadcast TV association the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has launched a pan-European mobile interactive quiz show to educate broadcas…
I missed this earlier, but Vodafone has asked Digital Chocolate to create 3D games in a bid to showcase its 3G technology. I think many of…
Artificial Life is releasing its celebrated “Virtual Girlfriend” mobile game in Malaysia. Malaysian telco Maxis Communications (Maxis) has a…
Camelot has selected TradeDoubler to provide an affiliate marketing program to drive online registrations for the new ‘Play by Text’ lottery…
Dwango Wireless has formed a partnership with Flow today their partnership with Flow CmM, to launch Minifizz in North America. Minifizz app…
Yahoo and Nextel have teamed up, with the telco’s customers able to log into Yahoo mobile from their handsets. They get access to Yahoo Mail…
Mforma – a company whose business plan centers on gathering brand licenses to distribute (and sometimes develop) mobile content – has signed…
Digital Bridges has reached a global agreement with iWin, the San Francisco-based online games publisher, to bring the online adventure puzz…
Mobile games producer Overloaded has signed a deal with Terraplay Systems which will allow them to offer multiplayer games from January 2005…
Namco America and InfoSpace Mobile have teamed up to offer the Ms PACMAN mobile game in a tournament, with players able to win prizes if the…
The Mobile Media Company AS today announced a partnership with Australian-based Viva la Mobile to provide 3G multiplayer games to mobile car…
The original latin superhero now has a mobile game, The Blade of Zorro. The game will be distributed by GlobalFun in selected markets in Eur…
Namco has released Pacman Pinball on mobiles, featuring Pacman, Ms Pacman and even Baby Pacman. While Pacman is a game almost universally re…
GloVentures has announced the upcoming release of Glofun Raygun, a game that uses GPS to track a players movements and adjust their skills a…
Artificial Life has announced it won the first prize of the mobile games section of the Mobile Applications Award 2004 issued by Ericsson fo…
Games company Square Enix has seen strong gains in its sales, and the differences between its online and mobile divisions are interesting. O…
MTV is about to light up a 25 foot high, 40 foot wide billboard on Times Square in New York, which will broadcast music videos and other MTV…
An interesting article on mobile gaming, which, to the surprise of carriers, has surpassed ringtones in revenue according to this piece. The…
The Indian mobile game market – currently five percent of the world’s total – will expand from US$26 million this year to US$336 million in…
I thought it was going to happen, and it has: product placement in games has evolved into creating games solely to push products. It makes s…
Digital Bridges has secured another $18 million from its investors to expand into its mobile game business in North America and Asia. An ana…
Fortune magazine has a piece on Jamdat, a mobile games company, outlining why the industry is a good one to be in. The recently-public compa…
An extended audio interview with Robert Tercek, chief strategy office of Mforma, the mobile gaming company that has made a lot of acquisiti…
Japans NTT DoCoMo has found providers for games for its latest handset series – 901i – which offers “3D Sound”. According to the press relea…
In a recent telephone interview, Tim Harrison, head of games for Vodafone Group Services, told GameSpot that advanced mobile gaming was goin…
Despite an apparent lack of market for Java, KJava, Symbian, and BREW games the Chinese mobile industry is convulsing with companies develop…
Now that I have a more robust server (just opened an account with Verio) I can offer audio for download, something I have been wanting to d…
This analysis proposes that Nokia is ceding the mid-range mobile market to concentrate on the high-end market. I don’t think it makes its ca…
Jamdat Mobile, which reported its Q3 earnings yesterday, saw its stock plunge as much as 40 percent, after analysts felt it did not meet exp…
In-duce has a list of location-based mobile games, which is useful for those people who have heard of the concept but never found one they c…
Jamdat Mobile, the LA-based mobile gaming and content company, has announced its first quarterly results after going public in September……
Although mobile games have traditionally sold a lot less than ringtones and wallpapers, many companies believe they will soon take off in a…
Well, he’s not necessarily happy with the creative and technological aspects of it, yet…I spoke to Blackley–now an agent with Creative Ar…
Tiger Telematics subsidiary Gizmondo Europe confirmed today that a one year Distribution Agreement has been signed with United Electronics S…
The National Basketball Association have announced a package of wireless video games and sports news programs in a partnership with Nokia an…
Mark Handler, executive vice president and managing director of Walt Disney Internet Group International has outlined the company’s strategy…
Video game retailer Electronics Boutique will offer wireless downloads for cell phones at some stores this holiday season…Owners of some a…
Linden Lab, creator of the online 3D digital world, Second Life, has closed a financing round of $8 million, led by Benchmark Capital and wi…
Digital Chocolate, the mobile gaming startup founded by Trip Hawkins, founder of EA, is doing some smart marketing…it has bought up Google…
(reg. req.): An interesting story about an inventor who has developed a game engine that piggybacks on instant messaging…programmer Jules…
Ziff Davis Media has restructured its videogame group…Dale Strang has been named to the new position of CEO of the Ziff Davis Media Game G…
Virgin Mobile USA has unveiled a new suite of more than 20 downloadable games designed to exploit the carrier’s new high-speed network.
Mobi…
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed that the company’s dual-screen DS handheld gaming console can download game data wirelessly, then p…
Game-maker THQ Wireless, which already offers SpongeBob SquarePants Darts for handsets, announced it is developing two new games based on Ni…
“So is Jamdat Mobile worthy of such attention? Does the mobile gaming market really hold that much potential for investors? From this Fool’s…
NormSoft and GlooLabs will launch a service that allows mobile users to navigate and listen to their home music collection using the Pocket…
Trip Hawkins on his new venture: “Typically, when a new medium comes along, established companies are interested in preserving the status qu…
Gamemaker Jamdat Mobile is launching its IPO into an environment that suddenly heating up. More could follow…
If Jamdat pulls it off, it w…
Three industry veterans, as well as two VC firms with experience in enterprise software, networking and communications technology, are putti…
Cable industry is betting on gaming as a broadband boost…Armed with high-speed pipes and a gaming-friendly PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) a…
Mobile gaming company Mforma has named Russell Klein as its executive VP of corporate development. Klein was previously entrepreneur-in-resi…
No kidding…serious, Trip, shut up and get down to work…this is my last link to a story on his company, for this year…unless it gets bo…
When’s it coming? How much will it cost? And, fundamentally, is 3D gaming on cell phones even worth the effort of developers?
A recent suvery by mobile gaming company Sorrent: the survey’s most surprising revelation was how many mobile gamers are active in playing a…
A new white paper on the woman’s gaming market, released by ELSPA (the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association). Examining…
Everyone wants to be the gaming development hub…
Is Star Trek ready for a gaming comeback? Perpetual Entertainment, a developer, publisher and operator of networked multi-player games, has…
(PDF File ) Another case study from the Nokia developer forums…this time on Sumea, a Finnish game development company recently bought out…
Jamdat Mobile has reached an agreement with children’s programming provider Nickelodeon to create mobile phone games based on Dora the Explo…
Now we’re talking: Gaming giant Electronic Arts will boost production of video games for mobile phones over the next nine months, bringing t…
Nokia shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago…it says it has signed…
Looks like Amazon.com will start selling wireless games, along with other online and video games. Right now, it seems like a low-key retail-…
(via Textually) This is pretty funky: Pantech&Curitel’s PH-S3500 phone’s prominent keypad is specially devised to let gamers enjoy 3D games…
Kayak Interactive, the mobile gaming player (see the story beelow), has appointed a new CEO: Keith McCurdy, former Electronic Arts VP for On…
Kevin Bradshaw, the founder of UK mobile gaming company Digital Bridges, is on the roll again…he took on the new position at US mobile gam…
In UK, the birth country of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”, Celador International has partnered with mobile gaming company CMate, to develo…
Wireless entertainment company Mforma has announced several new sports-related products, including deals with CBS SportsLine.com and such sp…
“In most parts of Europe — unlike in the United States, Japan and Korea — there is no single telecoms system that can simply connect users…
The veteran computer games company, Atari has been strategically assembling a network of licensees to deliver its vast catalogue of retro ga…
After simmering in the planning stages, Digital Chocolate is ready to sweeten the mobile gaming pot with the introduction of its first two g…
IBM is making the same pitch to online game companies that it’s made to banks, retailers and manufacturers: Let us handle the behind-the-sce…
UK telco O2 has become the first operator to launch multi-player Bluetooth mobile games for the mass market…O2 has launched Pat Cash and F…
According to Handango…The July report includes a list of the ten best-selling applications and ringtones by operating system.
Download the…
After posting its first two cash-flow-positive months in June and July, Newton, MA-based Worldwinner Inc., an online gaming company, will ac…
Much like the online DVD rental market (Blockbuster launched its online DVD rental service today), the online game rental market in U.S. is…
Exent, a Tel Aviv-based online gaming delivery technology company, has received $3 million in its third financing round from existing invest…
A very interesting story on how there’s a huge push to develop online and cable TV programming aimed at gamers…The name of the game is ori…
Cable telcos Comcast and RCN in U.S. have launched premium gaming services while are others are preparing to follow…they’re doing this bec…
Game Trust, a New York City-based online casual gaming company has closed a $1.5 million in first round of financing and appointed Scott Coh…
Massive, a developer of in-game advertising for video games and creator of an aggregated video game network, has raised $5.5 million in addi…
Xbox Live, the online service that allows players of Microsoft’s Xbox video game machine to compete against each other over the Internet, re…
Intermix Media, formerly know as eUniverse, has announced the sale of SkillJam, its online, pay-to-play gaming division, to CES Software, a…
Partnership opportunities abound for smart ISPs and console game makers, but few deals are done…Rather than actively seeking partnerships…
From online distribution, of course…Atari, Comcast, RCN, Bell Canada, and Yahoo, among others have launched games on demand services. And…
Seattle-based broadband provider Speakeasy has purchased Dallas-based GameDaemons, a game server rental company, and NetFire, a GameDaemons…
For the next generation of game consoles to reach their full potential, the American broadband market needs to grow, Sony Computer Entertain…
The champ is here: EA is getting into paid online fantasy football for the upcoming football season. This is surely to make the current fant…
(reg. req.): Once the narrow province of hard-core gamers, sites such as GameSpy (now merged with IGN) are growing in prominence as more and…
Swedish multiplayer gaming company Terraplay has raised $7.8 million in venture funding from Nordic Venture Partners and existing shareholde…
Intel plans to cooperate with Shanghai-based Shanda Interactive Entertainment on software development, focusing on online home entertainment…
Revenues are expected to triple by 2007, and companies such as Yahoo, RealNetworks, and CNET are coming on strong…(with acquisitions)
On Y…
Forbidden to offer online games of chance, American companies turn to games of skill, and find a market.
Also, WSJ has a story today on how…
(sub. req.): Another story speculating whether the stock surge of Chinese Internet portal players is sustainable or not…
The story says th…
It’s called the Internet, so relax…
Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software has acquired British game developer Mobius Entertainment, which specializes in games for…
Atari has. launched a global online service that provides games, productivity software and children’s software titles on a subscription basi…
More and more broadband ISPs are using games as the big driver…RCN has launched its game portal, RCN interACTION Games, which offers unlim…
The Boonty Company, a European online video gaming download platform company, has announced completion of a Euro 2.0 million ($2.4 million)…
Online gaming on video game consoles gathered momentum in 2003, with U.S. retail sales of online games exceeding $1 billion, according to NP…
Butterfly.net, an online gaming infrastructure provider, has received $10 million in venture funding. The money, which came from a funding g…
IGN Entertainment and GameSpy, the gaming infomation companies which merged earlier in December, are planning to launch new subscription off…
(sub. req.): MMORPGs may become more mainstream as “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” titles lure more players into the world of massively…
Microsoft will unveil its Xbox online gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore this April, a year and a half after its U.S. debut..…
Infinium Labs, the company behind the Phantom game console and broadband gaming service, has received a $15 million financing commitment fro…
Multiplayer game worlds such as EverQuest and The Sims Online look set to generate more than $1bn for the first time in 2004. According to a…
Games Inc. has paid Atari Inc. $1.13 million in cash and preferred stock for its www.Games.com domain name and digital licenses for several…
Online game developer Turbine Entertainment has secured $18 million in new funding, and plans to use part of the money to self-publish its f…
China’s largest online gaming firm, Shanda Networking, plans to seek a Nasdaq listing worth at least $300 million next year…
The Shanghai-…
Microsoft has started charging for one of its most admired titles in its XBox Live gaming service, MechAssault. The new game content and map…
Ziff Davis has finally launched Gaming Industry News, a monthly newsletter and a weekly e-mail..the newsletter, costing $995 for an annual s…
HBO has launched “FATE: the Carnivale Game,” a downloadable Tarot card game inspired by the hit HBO series “Carnivale.” HBO’s first licensed…
Gaming technology company GameSpy has signed a deal with Microsoft that will help turn the software maker’s PC games into online games.
CNET Networks, which has also announced the acquisition of MP3.com, has entered the game downloading sector..its popular game info. site Gam…
Brad Greenspan has stepped down as CEO, though still a member of the board. Brett Brewer, President, will be interim head as company evaluat…
There, a new online computer game, which its creators say is more social and creative than other games of its kind, is expected to get its c…
IGN Entertainment has bought out TeamXbox.com, one of the big Xbox-only sites.
TeamXbox averages over a half million unique visitors per mo…
Ziff Davis Media has luanched a new online destination for video and PC gamers, 1UP.com. 1UP will have a full-time staff of 25 under editor…
The market for downloadable games is poised to take off, with revenue from purchases of downloadable games projected to jump from $52.7 mill…
(r.req.): Electronic Arts has introduced a service that makes more than a dozen of its PlayStation 2 titles interactive online. The move re…
Online and TV gaming info. company Gamer.tv has launched a premium version…”Gamer.tv Plus! offers members early access to online video pre…
Peter Lewis goes ga-ga over the gaming market…of course, he still calls it the “videogames “market, rather than the more apt “games” marke…
Despite Sony’s huge installed base, Microsoft seems to be edging ahead in the early rounds of the struggle for online gamers’ hearts and min…
In the world of pay-to-play Internet gaming, cash winnings are a big draw. They are also a source of controversy… “groups concerned about…
As online gaming continues to experience a growth boom both on consoles and on the PC, the biggest obstacle to its growth may well come down…
General Sir Michael Rose, one of Britain’s most respected and highest ranking soldiers, has condemned The new computer game, Kuma: War, that…
Slightly creepy, if you ask me: New developer Kuma Reality Games today announced Kuma: War, a new military first-person shooter based on cur…
Microsoft has pegged Aug. 25 as the launch date for upgrades to its Xbox Live online video game service…On its Xbox Live site, Microsoft s…
Flipside.com, an online gaming and gaming promotions network owned by VUNet (part of Vivendi), has been sold to the Vendare Group, an online…
Japanese Internet services group Softbank will launch an online game portal later this month, betting that a market which is hugely popular…
More and more people are playing simpler, quieter types of electronic games on the Web, cellphones and hand-helds…
Microsoft has said it had signed up 50,000 European customers to its Xbox Live Internet service in the first three months, a sign online gam…
As Sony and Microsoft unveil the Internet-based services, expected to be the next big thing for the $30 billion games business, sharp differ…
Look out Nintendo. A startup called TapWave is reinventing the Palm Pilot as a gaming platform.
Also read, “Tapwave Readies Gamer’s PDA”.
Electronic Arts is mulling subscription fees for its online Web games and Madden football. It’s a pretty bold plan ? and one that could conc…
IGN Entertainment is going private and will be acquired for $12 a share, a 50 percent premium to Friday’s closing price of $8. A new corpora…
An interesting interview with Cindy Bowens, the Community Manager of Sigil Games Online, a new online multiplayer game community.
IGN Entertainment has bought VE3D, a popular site on gaming news from its former owners BA Ventures.
According to a new survey, an online gamer just as likely to be a well-paid professional – male or female – aged in their 40s, and not just…
“By 2008, Wireless games will generate revenues in excess of $7 Billion, with downloadable Java and BREW games both offering the greatest po…
“While the Xbox console and the Xbox Live broadband game service are still Microsoft’s prize gaming initiatives, Kim admits that there has b…
Microsoft may face rough road in transitioning players to a pay-to-play model.
“Online parlor games may be consistent money makers in their own right, but MMP games are the cash cows of tomorrow’s online game world and…
Online game developer Mythic Entertainment has announced that TA Associates has invested $32 million in the company.
On why XBox Live user will renew their contracts: “The first incentive is the service itself. With the level of satisfaction we’ve got on th…
Analysts are urging companies not to look past the gaming market for huge revenue potential, and In-Stat/MDR estimates hundreds of millions…
Online media company eUniverse announced that Microsoft property MSN had signed up its SkillJam.com unit to add play-for-cash games to MSN’s…
NCSoft Sees Growth in S.Korea Online Gaming: In a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Tack Jin Kim, chief executi…
Learnings From The Serious Business of Online Gaming: The gaming industry has done several things right: developing a loyal customer base, f…
EA’s Follies in the Online World: A detailed analysis of Electronic Art’s forays online and how it hasn’t worked out as they hoped it would:…
EA Consolidates EA.com Into Core: Game software maker Electronic Arts plans to consolidate online business EA.com into its company’s core op…
Your Next Customer Is Virtual. But His Money Is Real: There Inc. invites you to sell your wares in the most realistic and commercially sophi…
European Online Gaming Doubles: “The…leading European markets for online gaming are Germany and France. However, in the UK, Europe
European Phantasy Star Online Pricing: Infogrames has confirmed the monthly subscription costs for the European version of Phantasy Star Onl…
NCSoft’s Record Revenues for 2002: NCsoft, the Korean online gaming company, has recorded revenues of $123.3 million, its highest. Net profi…
Industry Gets Behind Nokia N-Gage: Nokia
Fine Print in Electronic Arts’ Results: “To even suggest the Sims Online could fail is a far cry from the way it has been heralded
‘Sims Online’ Off to Slow Start: Initial sales of “The Sims Online” have been less than expected, executives from publisher Electronic Arts…
Online Games Very Popular Across Asia: Online games are becoming the rage across Asia as Internet usage grows, with Web gamers outnumbering…
Online Games Very Popular Across Asia: Online games are becoming the rage across Asia as Internet usage grows, with Web gamers outnumbering…
There, Here, Everywhere (Word file): There, the incredibly hyped developer of an immersive 3D online gaming environments (simultaneous launc…
Online Game Hopes to Convert Virtual Cash Into Real Revenue: An analysis by WSJ of whether people will pay to play role-playing games like “…
Former Terra Lycos President Appointed Head of Online Gaming Firm: Former Fidelity Investments and Terra Lycos executive Stephen Killeen has…
EA’s Sims Online Debuts: Electronic Arts’ Sims Online — the next-generation soap opera for female couch potatoes — is being touted as the…
Will “Sims Online” Alter Gaming World?: “‘I think it’s a good test to see if online gaming can stretch past the hard-core fantasy gamers onl…
The Video-Game Wars Explode Online: Its Microsoft’s deep pockets and Xbox’ built-in capabilities vs. Sony’s and Nintendo’s add-ons. The priz…
The Biggest Franchise of Them All?: The Sims Online will convert the best-selling PC game into a subscription business. If it works, it coul…
Online Gaming to Spur Standardization?: A broad shift to online gaming in the $9.4 billion video game industry — widely forecast now that t…
Video Games Make Big Leap to Small Phone Screens: A report on the wireless gaming market. “The games themselves cost anywhere from $2 to $15…
Oversimulated Suburbia At Sims: David Brooks’ fascinating description of the surprising hit, the video/computer game Sims, and the cultural…
NCSoft’s Lineage Enters China: NCSoft, the South Korea-based biggest developer of online games, has partnered with SINA to bring “Lineage” i…
AtomShockwave Launches Paid Video Game Service: AtomShockwave has launched a new subscription video game service on its Shockwave.com websit…
Online Game Economies Get Real: There’s more to the virtual reality in massive multiplayer online games than digital otherworlds that look r…
IGN Launches Online Game Arcade: IGN Entertainment (Nasdaq:IGNX), formerly Snowball.com, has launched “IGN Play”, an online game arcade whic…
For Big Game Maker, Online Play Is a Big Gamble: A profile of Electronic Arts, the biggest video-game maker in the business–potentially wea…
Fantasy Football Players Cry Foul on Fee: Sandbox.com, the last of the major free fantasy football sites, has instituted an 11th-hour plan t…
Will Declining Birth Rates in Japan Affect Online Gaming Revenues: An interesting point in this story on Japanese game software maker Square…
Korea’s National Pastime: Game With Elves: South Korea’s NCSoft runs the biggest online multi-player game in the world. On any given day, “L…
Altnet Tops 2 Million: Altnet P2P network, which is distributed along with the popular KaZaa file-swapping software, has clocked more than 2…
Interactive game publisher THQ has discontinued its online joint venture in the United Kingdom. THQ had formed the Network Interactive Sport…
Credit Cards May Default on Gaming: E-gaming companies (that is, Internet gambling casinos etc., NOT network gaming) could see their growth…
Korea is the biggest online gaming country in the world, and a small upstart NC Interactive is planning to make a run at it, against giants…
IGN Raises $2 Million: IGN Entertainment (Nasdaq: IGNX), which till recently was called Snowball.com, has raised $2 million in a private pl…
Netgame Factory Raises $1.6 Million: This Sweden-based startup develops lotteries and games for cell phones. From the release: “Today
An interview with John Riccitiello, president and chief operating officer of Electronic Arts, the $1.7 billion game publisher, on how broadb…
Making Gamers Pay: This is a complex conundrum–the fact that online gaming has become hugely popular makes it very difficult for gaming com…