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Sega Emulator For S60

SegaAll Aabout Symbian published a list of emulators for Symbian S60 3rd Edition devices which has led to their most recent article regarding Sega’s console emulator for S60 3rd Edition. View the article here.

Chinese WAP Financial Report

CashCellular News has released some financial statistics regarding China’s WAP and mobile games market. The figures show some slight decline in growth for Chinese WAP but also reveals some positive statistics about the mobile games market.
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Ideaworks Says Porting Ain’t Easy

Tim ClossMobileindustry.biz has interviewed Tim Closs, chief technical officer for Ideaworks 3D. He claims porting costs are still holding back the mobile gaming industry from reaching its full potential.

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The OMA On Mobile Gaming Standardization

Open Mobile AllianceGamasutra, in association with Modojo, has published a Q&A with the OMA on the subject of mobile gaming standardization. The interview was with OMA Games Services Working Group chairman Kevin Mowry.
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The Success of Digital Chocolate

Digital ChocolateA recent press release details the success of mobile game developer Digital Chocolate. Some of its successes include the 2006 Best Games Developer Award, steady growth and numerous mentions in the Fierce 15.
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New Mobile Game Developer Has Potential

NokiaA group of industry veterans from Activision and Gameloft, have banded together to create Massively Mobile, a new game development studio for mobile devices.

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It’s All Phone And Games

PhoneThanks to the mobile games and gaming blog for pointing us to Bryan Cashman of Deloitte who has written a 5 page whitepaper which looks at current market trends and where he believes it is going.

The whitepaper is available for free from the Deloitte website here.

Hands-On Mobile Contest

logoHands-On Mobile has recently announced its biggest ever online sweepstakes, the “$25,000 reasons to play” promotion.

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PacificNet Inc. Buys Chinese Wireless Portal

PACTPacificNet Inc. (NASDAQ: PACT) , a provider of CRM, ecommerce and gaming technology in China announced today that it has entered into an agreement with MOABC, a leading mobile internet portal in China, to purchase a 20% ownership equity interest in MOABC to strengthen PacificNet’s wireless internet, mobile games, and mobile e-commerce unit.

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Nokia’s Next Gen Gaming Platform

Nokia ConsoleAll About Symbian has posted an editorial regarding the next generation Nokia gaming platform. The Nokia Next Gen gaming platform, successor to the N-Gage gaming smartphone, will launch in the first half of 2007 across a range of Nokia’s Symbian S60 devices. Here are some highlights:

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