San Franciso - August 25, 2008 - IQ212 Games today announced the release of Redneck Fishin’ for mobile. In the woods, the suburbs, or the city, Redneck Fishin’ allows players to fish for trout, bass and more using dynamite for bait. Read more »
iQ212’s New Mobile Fishing Game Explodes on to Carrier Decks
25 Aug 2008
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Kleiner Perkins’ iFund Invests In 2 iPhone gaming start-ups
23 Aug 2008
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iFund is an investment fund created by KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) to invest in iPhone oriented start-ups. It has a US$100 Million pool and has already invested in 5 companies: Whrrl (whose parent company is Pelago), iControl, Gogii, Ngmoco and another unnamed (yet) company.
While Whrrl is a location-based service and iControl is a remote-monitoring one, Gogii and Ngmoco are gaming companies about to launch this fall.
GoGii Games was started by the founders of Jamdat Mobile which has received $5 Million from KPCB. Gogii is concentrated on casual games that will be both online and based on social networks, targeting the iPhone primarily.
Ngmoco is a company created by KPCB by bringing a few former EA seniors together. Bing Gordon, formerly chief creative officer of EA, is on the board and Neil Young (no, not THAT one…) is the CEO. Neil was on the team of games such as Sims 2 and the up-coming Spore. Also, Bing Gordon is on the board of Zynga as well, a company KPCB also invested in and which concentrated on making a games network which is cross-social-networks. Thus, it is likely the new compnay is going to play a role in facebook/myspace/etc, as well as on the iPhone.
According to the NYT, iFund investments range from $100K to $15 million, and KPCB already invested between $5M to $8M in these companies.
It would be interesting to see how things will go for these companies and how different will they be.
Zeemote JS1 Controller Will Integrate With Nokia N-Gage Games and S60 Applications
BEDFORD, MA, Aug 20, 2008 — Zeemote(TM), Inc. , the makers of intelligent wireless controllers for mobile devices, today announced that Nokia will be the first organization to launch its Zeemote Zeekey(TM) application. This new application enables the Zeemote JS1 Controller to work with N-Gage games and other S60 applications. The Zeemote Zeekey application will come pre-loaded on featured handsets as special gaming bundles and is also available for download on the Nokia website. Read more »
Mobile entertainment provider partners with Trixcell to introduce mobile magic content category around the globe
LOS ANGELES, Calif. / BERLIN, Germany, 21 August 2008 – Jamba, a leading global provider of mobile content and entertainment, also known as Jamster in some countries, today announced a global partnership with Trixcell, the first company to introduce the concept of mobile magic. With exclusive deals in more than 201 countries, Jamba is the first to offer Trixcell’s innovative magic applications as part of its diverse mobile entertainment catalog. Read more »
Reliance Big Entertainment Enters U.S. Mobile Content Market with the Launch of Jump Games
20 Aug 2008
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Mumbai, India and Chicago, USA – August 20, 2008 – Reliance Big Entertainment today announces the launch of Jump Games USA and the opening of a new U.S. headquarters based in Chicago. Jump Games, a leading publisher and developer of games across mobile platforms, is aggressively looking to acquire top mobile content licenses and brands for distribution on its mobile worldwide network. Read more »
| August 25, 2008 | to | August 28, 2008 |
Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August) Adobe will be offering a free Flash Cast training course for anyone interested in learning how to develop Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless Dashboard service. The training will be held here at Adobe’s San Francisco office and Emily Kim will be the instructor. You can register here.
Since Flash Cast is partially based on Flash Lite 1.1 Adobe is also offering a one day Flash Lite 1.1 training course on Monday the 25th August if you don’t have any mobile Flash development experience. If you’re familiar with Flash Lite development then it’s not necessary for you to attend this training.
via Bill Perry
Pasi Manninen decided to test KunerLite plugins and report to the community. Kuneri have done 11 nice plugins to extend Flash Lite applications and Pasi went out to test some of them.
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Nokia never had it easy with pushing N-Gage. It wasn’t doing good when it was first introduced as a weird-looking gaming device (without even MIDP 2.0, which was already available at the time on other devices).
Nokia then introduced the N-Gage as a gaming platform available on a range of devices and started pushing the gamedev community to produce games (one example).
Still, with all the recent buzz in the mobile gaming industry going to the iPhone, Nokia needed something else to draw the attention of developers.
Can that something be a cool video-cast? A developers talkshow?
Nokia has released the first episode of it’s Sauna Talk, where host Arnold Farber interview developers in… well… a sauna. It seems there are 2 other episodes about to be released but you can already enjoy the first episode featuring N-Gage’s Miikka Skaffari:
“Get the latest buzz on the N-Gage platform in an exclusive interview with Miikka Skaffari, Head of Developer Product Management. Learn about this latest mobile technology with host Arnold Farber as he inquires about the new tools, APIs, and the SDKs offered to developers through the N-Gage platform.”
I personally think this is an excellent show. The idea is great and looks very cool in video. It just left to see how non-saumi people handle the Sauna interview.. Way to go Nokia. Great stuff.
Felipe Sampaio posted a new wiki entry on Forum Nokia wiki covering the making of a bluetooth chat using Kuneri Lite.
In this tutorial we will follow a step-by-step guide to create a chat by Bluetooth using Kuneri Lite. Kuneri Lite allows access to the S60 features (Bluetooth, GPS, Camera, …) that we haven’t access directly from Flash Lite.
There is sample source attached to the wiki. Grab it here.
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—> Some recent podcasts for your audio and video pleasure:
Insight 35: Reset Generation, Voice and Nokia Music by Rafe from AllAboutSymbian.
Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group 1st Podcast - Group members Rob Toole, Scott Janousek, Alessandro Pace, and Ira Hochman discuss a variety of news including Verizon Dashboard, Adobe Open Screen Project, Nokia as an internet company, and KuneriLite. With guest Naveena Aswadhati from GameBrix.
Video Podcast 17 from Covent Garden by Mobile Industry Review: Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley hosting Josh Russell.
