Category Archives: Games
24MAS Acquires P1 Sports
24MAS, a Stockholm based mobile advertising and applications developer, has acquired P1 Sports, a British based sports and games app developer.
Previous titles developed by P1 include the official 6 Nationals Rugby game for iOS and Bass Fishing Mania. Continue reading
24MAS launches fully managed games store for Vodafone Czech Republic
24MAS, a Stockholm based mobile advertising and marketing solutions company, has launched a new games store with Vodafone Czech Republic, expanding its operator footprint in Europe.
The games store has unique features including tab functionality and a loyalty system. The new Vodafone Gallery will replace Vodafone live! with a strong focus on premium content. Continue reading
CPA means a quid per sign-up
Rating: Enticing people onto mobile casinos is obviously big bucks
Following our earlier story ‘Moobile Games shows how to tap into touchscreen phones ‘ (see here), we’ve been contacted by Probability Affiliates. They’ve told us that CPA stands for Cost Per Acquisition. Which means that starting your own mobile web site to entice people to gamble is even more lucrative than we first thought. For everybody you sign up, you get a quid (£1). Continue reading
Moobile Games shows how to tap into touchscreen phones
Rating: Learn from the masters – the adult industry
It has always struck GoMo News how difficult it is to support your own mobile web site with either sponsorship or advertising (or a bit of both). How about doing so by promoting gambling? After all, it is legal to do so in the UK. We’ve just had a flier from a company called Income Access which is behind the Probability Affiliates brand. It is promoting a new brand called Moobile Games. That’s not a spelling mistake – it’s a play on the word Moo as in moo-cow. We’ve no idea how good the offer is, but it strikes us as an excellent way to discover just what’s achievable with state-of-the-art mobile apps. Continue reading
ChartBoost offers in-app ads for iOS games
Rating: Using the technology is basically free
A new advertising marketplace – ChartBoost – has just appeared. It aims to help iPhone game developers enjoy more success with their apps and help boost revenues, too. The marketplace can be used in a number of different ways: – internal cross-promotion; direct cross-promotion with other apps; or promoting across a wide network. The company claims that those with games that are already in the Top 100 Apple app charts, can also use ChartBoost to monetise their success by promoting other apps. ChartBoost’s proprietary technology is basically free. Continue reading
Mobile apps will conquer the world says Answer
Rating: You bought the game now buy the cook book and watch the film
It seems that the world has genuinely gone mad. As a result of creating what is probably the most successful mobile app ever – the Angry Birds game, its creator, Rovio, is diversifying so widely it is almost unbelievable. For starters, there seem to be a whole raft of Angry Bird films in the making. And who does Rovio hire to create these new films – David Maisel? Like us, you’ve probably never heard of him, but Maisel is responsible for creating a stream of smash hits including Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger. And what has Maisel done now? Well, he’s only just joined to Rovio as a special advisor. All of this from just a mobile phone app. Continue reading
OpenFeint shows Android is force in gaming
Rating: Adds 230 games to its network in 2 months
Just two months after OpenFeint came to the Android sector, the company has added 230 games to its Android portfolio and is now present on 24 of the Top 100 paid and free games on Android. Initially there were doubts that the Android platform could ever compete with iOS in mobile gaming. By bringing a lot of heavy-hitting games and helping to socialise heaps of Android titles, OpenFeint has proved Android can succeed. Furthermore, OpenFeint has released it next generation mobile social network and it’s now live in all 700 Android games. With this Android-first release, iOS games won’t see the new features until this Fall. Continue reading
Flexion’s wrapper enables 1 free mobile app trial per/sec
Rating: developers stand better chance of making money from apps
Android and Java ‘wrappers’ from Flexion are currently enabling more than one free trial per second, the company claims. It also maintains that it is adding over four million new consumers per month to its platform. Jens Lauritzson, CEO with Flexion explained, “Instead of making developers add billing SDKs to their game code, we let them wrap their products with the Flexion wrapper which automatically enables in-app billing for products. These can then be distributed via app stores as free downloads.” As an example of Flarion’s technology, Nokia customers in 68 markets can now download any Java game from EA and play it for free before deciding whether to commit to a purchase. Purchases are then made securely via operator billing via the Flexion wrapper. The wrapper comes with an add-on feature called Discovery, Flexion’s on device portal, to promote more games to customers. Continue reading
Mobile gaming attracts time and money in the UK
An interesting results burst came from the UK today, where games market analysis firm Newzoo has taken a look at how much time and money UK residents put into the gaming. The overall gaming market in the UK looks very interesting – but we’re more interested in where mobile fits in. Continue reading
Brits can win Windows Phone from Microsoft
Rating: Nice spin on viral marketing, too
What a cunning way to get people to enter a competition to win a Windows Phone (and an Xbox 360 with Kinect). Get them to post a review of a Windows Phone/Xbox game on their own blog or, alternatively, to post a review on the WindowsPhoneUK page http://www.facebook.com/windowsphoneuk. Or Tweet it. It’s a clever form of viral marketing from those that run the Windows Phone UK blog which you can find here. What entrants have to do is review one of the six ‘Must Have Games’ that Microsoft has been promoting to UK owners. You can’t, of course, enter unless you have either a Windows Phone or an Xbox. Otherwise, how could you review one of the games? Clever, eh? Continue reading
PapayaMobile leads the Android gaming charge into China
One of the things that has emerged from analysis of the global application market is this: the most popular categories of apps tend to be the same regardless of market or region. And, in general, the most popular category of app around the world is Gaming applications. The underlying opportunity here is that if you’ve developed a popular game for (say) America, there’s no reason it can’t also sell in APAC. And so PapayaMobile is announcing a “Gateway to China” program for Android developers looking to expand to China. Continue reading
World’s “most insulting” mobile game makes good
Last week, I published an article ragging on a newly released mobile game called Top Girl from a developer called CrowdStar. My review was… not positive. And today CrowdStar has announced how well this game has performed. And it has done so well that CrowdStar the right, if it wants, to come over to where I live and shout “eat it, sucka!” through my mailbox. Continue reading
Mobile phones, make-up mirrors, flirting games and sexism
I wrote an article recently about a mobile game from a developer called CrowdStar. To say I was unimpressed is an understatement – I called it “the most insulting game ever”. And due to the response I’ve gotten to that article, I thought I should clear some things up. Continue reading
Mobile technology can transform real life into gaming
If on-line gaming has taught us anything, it’s that people really love achievements. Even if they’re not actually useful for anything other than showing off, there’s a sense of accomplishment in getting a difficult achievement. This makes it an addictive prospect for many gamers This article was inspired by a comic strip (see below), but it’s genesis lies in real-life trends that show how mobile can take points-earning and achievements out of gaming and put them into your life. Continue reading
CrowdStar launches most insulting mobile game ever
Wow, CrowdStar. Just wow. In an attempt to make a mobile game that appeals to a rapidly growing type of mobile gamer; the middle-aged Mom, CrowdStar has managed to unleash the worst kind of gender-biased tripe on the world. Continue reading
