Ad-funded mobile games - where is it going? Today, ICQ launched ad-funded mobile games, and we have some exclusive commentary for you - so will they make money? Where is the ad-funded mobile game industry generally going? Are the ad-funded companies going to make any money?... Read full article

On Mobile Games Forum almost 2 months ago, there were big talks on things like mobile game rental, pay per play, paying for games normally - what is the best method, and what will stay on the market as the leader? Will it hurt the revenues? What about refunding policies of so called AppStores, where Google announced in their Android Market a 24 hour return policy for games? Where is this all leading?... Read full article

Today MobileGamesDb.com, one of my non-profit media portals, has released an overall TOP 10 of publishers this year based on ratings from 12 global review portals. Interesting list:... Read full article

We are proud to present the ratins and results from MobileGamesDb. MobileGamesDb.com, the quality listing with aggregated information from the mobile games  market worldwide, released the Q3 2008 rating for mobile games on the market and creates top rank and list of mobile game developers and publishers, including rules of how this is done.
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Wow, it has gotten to my ears from many sources in Europe and many operators, that EA Mobile is presenting a presentation about other companies copying their games and other companies games. It seems that their biggest target of an unbranded presentation that they are presenting to mobile operators is Gameloft, where 5 of the slides are aimed to Gameloft copying EA or titles from other companies.... Read full article

Mobile Content in the last 10 years of existence was evolving heavily quickly. To recap, lets start where it begun. I could also write “my 10 years in mobile content business”, because this is exactly when I started.... Read full article

I have seen a lot of change going on in the mobile game industry recently. I have seen the ad-funded mobile games market move forward, the casual and brand mobile games market, usually dominated by operators, and of course also the better hardcore games. But it doesn’t seem enough for mobile game companies that are in the business, and many of them are turning to console titles, primarily focused around Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, and even the big consoles like Nintendo Wii.... Read full article

This is how Nokia sees mobile gaming in 2010. This research has been created in 2006 published early 2007, so we are almost half way through the time. I will leave the judgemental part on this to everyone, but I was surprised on through how many angles the presentation looks at the mobile games market.... Read full article

I am sorry to Patrick Mörk from Glu, I used his title from last weeks 2nd Central European Mobile Media Conference (wow this is long, they should think about a shortcut). Or maybe the title should be Mobile games market - still kicking, yet another one bites the dust - as Ojom, the Jamba owned mobile games development unit announced closure effective beginning of this month. Nothing unexpected really. The Ojom games always lacked some bigger thought, and even though they had great brands (Duke Nukem being my personal favorite), they weren’t really capable in turning it in something working great. But where is the market heading? Is the market in sort of a down-trend, or what’s going on?... Read full article

Earlier this year, I talked to many mobile game publishers and was trying to convince them on activity regarding the mobile game industry not being well aware of illegal mobile game downloads. I stated clearly that this is an issue that has to be taken care of.... Read full article