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2008 ratings from MobileGamesDb.com

2009-01-20T18:20:00.000-08:00

London, 21st January – MobileGamesDb.com, the mobile games quality listing portal with aggregated information from the mobile games industry worldwide, released today the yearly 2008 rating for mobile games on the market and as it has been a tradition over the last year, creates top rank and list of mobile game developers and publishers, including rules of how this is done.

The official mobile games publisher ranking for 2008 is:

Pos.	Developer name	# of games*	% rating 2008	% rating Q3	Position Q3
1	Fishlabs	23	88,2%	-	-
2	Gameloft	196	79,7%	84,4%	1
3	I-Play	63	76,2%	72,3%	8
4	Digital Chocolate	71	76%	75,2%	6
5	EA Mobile	89	75,3%	78,4%	3
6	Handy-Games	49	74,9%	78,6%	2
7	Disney Mobile	54	73,6%	76,7%	5
8	Glu	85	72,4%	73,8%	7
9	THQ Wireless	69	71,8%	76,9%	4
-**	Vivendi Games	31	71,5%	-	-
10	Hands-On	23	70,8%	67,8%	9

*# of games indicates number of games reviewed in this year (2008)
** Existing publisher apply for position.

“We are very happy to present the 2008 overall results, we see glamorous results this year, including several smaller and mid-size developers basically fade-away, and the market segmenting more towards larger publishers”, says Matej Gause, Content Director of MobileGamesDb.com portal, “The rules that we apply is, that each developer has to have at least 20 reviewed games throughout the entire each year.”

“I would like to congratulate the winners of this year – Fishlabs, to their victory. This shows that despite the market consolidating, also independent, smaller, and flexible mobile game companies can show us, and make it to the top!“, said Jan Rezab, Founder of the MobileGamesDb.com portal.

MobileGamesDb.com has risen last year from several thousand visitors to 30.000 monthly visits (December 2008), with new ways of showing information about reviewed mobile games, and new features coming weekly to the portal:

MobileGamesDb.com released Q3 rating for mobile games and rank of top 10 publishers

2008-10-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

London, 7th October – 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.

Pos.	Developer name	# of games*	% rating Q3	% rating Q2	Position Q2
1	Gameloft	36	84,4%	79,2%	2
2	Handy-Games	9	78,6%	72,5%	10
3	EA Mobile	15	78,4%	78,2%	3
4	THQ Wireless	10	76,9%	79,6%	1
5	Disney Mobile	13	76,7%	76,9%	7
6	Digital Chocolate	9	75,2%	78,1%	4
7	Glu	16	73,8%	77,5%	6
8	I-Play	14	72,3%	74,9%	9
9	Hands-On	6	67,8%	-	-
10	IG Fun	10	66,1%	-	-

*# of games indicates number of games reviewed in this quarter (Q3 2008)

“We are proud to present our new methodology of showing which mobile games publishers are top ranked. ”, says Matej Gause, Content Director of MobileGamesDb.com portal, “The rules that we apply is, that each developer has to have at least 5 reviewed games each quarter with a minimum of 70% average, or 10 or more reviewed games in general in that quarter.”

Two companies completely missed the TOP10 this quarter and leave the TOP10 ranking. These companies are Vivendi Games Mobile and Real Networks (Mr. Goodliving), both not submitted for too few reviews on the market.

“We are glad to show that quality on the market matters, and that developers focus on it more and more! A big surprise this quarter is definitely Handy-Games, giving a jump from 10^th position to 2^nd place.“, added Gause.

MobileGamesDb aggregated reviews from PocketGamer, AirGamer, Midlet-review, ProjectNext, and MobilGamer. In the next quarter, more review sources will be added to the portal. Developer will receive individual notifications.

About MobileGamesDb

MobileGamesDb.com is a quality listing of mobile games worldwide, and also of mobile game publishers. On MobileGamesDb, people can find aggregated review data, data about awards, and many screenshots for each game presented on the portal in the database.

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More, more, and more updates to MobileGamesDb!

2008-09-11T08:10:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the world of updates! Our great team at www.mobilegamesdb.com has launched 50 new mobile games in our databases, to be very updated with the latest games on the market, we are launching new categories, and as well as new review sources and editing the old ones.

You can see more news coming from us in the next days and weeks to come. Stay tunned!

MobileGamesDb is updated

2008-09-01T01:25:00.000-07:00

MobileGamesDb is receiving many updates recently. We hope you enjoy and like them. We are currently redesigning the frontpage, and hope you will also like the changes that we prepared in the different sections. Stay tunned for more.

Also, if you are a mobile games company, please feel free to get in touch with us (Comments, or our gmail address mobilegamesdb at gmail dot com), and get in touch with us if you have anything to add.

MobileGamesDb Top publishers/developers Q2 2008

2008-08-18T23:55:00.000-07:00

So it's here, long awaited official Q2 report for mobile game reviews, and the winner is: THQ Wireless, with an average of almost 80%, especially thanks to the Indiana Jones, new Worms 2008 titles, and Puzzle Quest - Warlords.

We have also made a small overview to indicate previous scorings and position in Q1 2008.

Pos	Developer	Q1	Q2	Position Q1
1	THQ Wireless	69.9%	79.6%	-
2	Gameloft	81.5%	79.2%	4
3	EA Mobile	74.1%	78.2%	9
4	Digital Chocolate	76.4%	78.1%	7
5	Vivendi Games Mobile	70.3%	77.8%	-
6	Glu	68%	77.5%	-
7	Disney Mobile Studios	70.2%	76.9%	6
8	Mr. Goodliving	82%	75.8%	2
9	I-Play	76.3%	74.9%	9
10	HandyGames	75.4%	72.5%	10

We hope you enjoy it, and as usual you can find more on www.mobilegamesdb.com.

Gadget for MobileGamesDb for your site

2008-08-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

We have created a nice tiny gadget for other mobile game sites, that they can add a little search box for mobile game and for mobile game developer, which will lead to our site, and then link back in terms of reviews and awards, if they supply any.

So if you want to contribute, here is the source code:

Looks like this then:

MobileGamesDb.com Top publishers list

2008-04-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

Last week was a very exciting week for MobileGamesDb.com. We put together a list of publishers and developers, and used our up-to-date engine for awards information to create a list of top mobile game publishers.

Q1 2008 Quality Top 10 mobile game publishers

Fishlabs – 93%
Mr. Goodliving – 82%
Microjocs, Rovio – 81%
Gameloft - 79.9%
Cocoasoft – 77%
Disney Mobile – 75.9%
Digital Chocolate – 75.5%
Hands-On, Lemonquest 75%
EA Mobile, I-Play 73%
HandyGames, 72.8%

Thanks to Arjan Olsder from MobileGamesBlog who has filtered this list for us. The list can be found on our special page. Hope you enjoy it. We will post a more official list later on, as this is still unfiltered from smaller developers who only publish a few games.