Gamelion developed LocoRoco:Hi won Gold Award.
Sony Pictures Television's LocoRoco PSP title, has been brought by Gamelion to your mobile and earned Pocket Gamer's Gold Award.
30th MARCH 2009 - Mob4Hire Signs Mobile Testing Marketing Deal with Gamelion.
Mob4Hire is pleased to announce that it has signed a marketing deal with Gamelion in order to better facilitate the worldwide testing of mobile applications. Gamelion will enter their approximately 4800 handset/carrier combinations into the database of Mob4hire, bringing their total global handset testing marketplace to over 8000 handsets, which will help mobile application developers better test their applications in the European marketplace.
Stephen King, CEO, Mob4Hire states, "We are thrilled to be partnering with this high quality mobile player and it certainly strengthens our position in Europe in terms of scope and breadth. Gamelion has some of the biggest players in the industry on their customer list and one of the largest handset parks in Europe."
Award winning, Mob4Hire has created a bidding platform to help mobile developers traverse the myriad of handsets, platforms and networks that comprise the mobile industry today. Developers can easily contact testers from all over the world in order to ensure the quality and functionality of their applications. Gamelion's handsets and strong technical staff will triple Mob4Hire's MobPro testers, which are comprised of professional testers all over the world.
"Mob4Hire's innovative method of simplifying application testing is attractive to us on several fronts," adds Anton Gauffin, CEO of Gamelion. "Mob4Hire acts as a marketing arm for our mobile testing services while increasing our return on investment with this large, but depreciating capital asset, but the real winner will be the mobile developer who will be able to access quality testing services faster and less expensively."
About Mob4Hire:
With over 8,000 handsets on more than 250 operators in 91 countries worldwide, Mob4Hire (http://www.mob4hire.com) is the leader in real world, crowd sourced, mobile application testing. Using Web 2.0 social networking, Mob4Hire significantly reduces mobile application testing costs and reduces time to market by connecting developers with eager, lower priced, crowd sourced testers and focus groups. Mob4Hire also provides their unique MPCP (Micro-Payment Crowd Sourced Platform) to developer networks and app stores such as O2 Litmus to allow for private labeled communities to be added to existing Carrier and Handset Manufacturer offerings. Founded in 2007, Mob4Hire was recently chosen as a finalist for both Mobile Monday Peer Awards and the GSMA Top Innovator Awards at GSMA Barcelona, Other recent accolades include an Under the Radar Audience Choice Award, as well as being chosen as one of Backbone Magazine's top 20 Web 2.0 firms. Mob4Hire is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with offices in Victoria, British Columbia, and London, U.K. For more information, visit http://www.mob4hire.com.
About Gamelion:
Gamelion (a BLStream Group company) is a creative studio focusing on casual games and funware, committed to creating success for its world leading customers. Since 2002 Gamelion has created engaging entertainment products for leading game publishers, media houses and handset manufacturers. The team creates entertainment with high production values and has a track record of delivering critically acclaimed titles based on well-known corner franchises of the global gaming industry.
In addition to team's design and delivery capabilities, Gamelion has also one of the largest handset parks in Europe, offering professional Mobile Post Production services with maximum device coverage for carriers in Europe, US, Latin America and Australia.
About BLStream Group:
BLStream is a unique globally operating convergence specialist, delivering products and services for mobile, entertainment and enterprise sectors. The company's expertise is proven by nine years of successful track record in delivering advanced mobile and internet technology solutions and content for world's leading brands.
BLStream excels in new and emerging technologies and offers innovations and new business models that leverage the constantly evolving multiplatform environment.
BLStream offers advanced technology solutions with strong emphasis on user experience. Our mission is to enable global brands to differentiate their offerings in today's converging environment through seamless integration of mobile and web services. We believe that the user experience will increasingly dominate not only in the consumer offerings and but also in the enterprise sector.
The clients include Nokia, Motorola, Symbian, Qualcomm, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures, Namco Bandai, Square Enix, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, BBC, ERA and Play.
26th FEBRUARY 2009 - Gamelion authorized for development on Sony PlayStation platforms.
Gamelion announces that it has received authorized Sony developer status early 2009 for Sony PSP and PS3, and is now preparing to begin full production of casual games for those platforms.
"Our first game for the Nintendo WiiWare service 'Furry Legends' is in development since end of 2008 and we'll continue our strategic expansion into consoles with the addition of PSP and PS3 to list of our supported platforms. We've been discussing already with Sony about our pipelline for some time now and are planing to release first games for PSP in Q4 2009." - said Gamelion Head of Production, Sebastian Szczygiel.
Gamelion currently employs a large number of game developers skilled in development on a substantial variety of platforms - not only on all mobile platforms, but also on PC and consoles. With such experienced resources and deep understanding of European and US markets, Gamelion is bound to succeed on the new platforms.
Gamelion plans on working with its current partners, with the world leading publishers, as well as working internally on own titles that offer new experiences for casual gamers.
For further information , please contact:
Anton Gauffin, CEO, Gamelion.
Email: anton at game-lion.com, Phone +48 606 111 200
Sebastian Szczygieł, Head of Production, Gamelion.
Email: sebastian.szczygiel at game-lion.com, Phone +48 606 101 500
About BLStream Group
BLStream is a unique globally operating convergence specialist, delivering products and services for mobile, entertainment and enterprise sectors. The company's expertise is proven by nine years of successful track record in delivering advanced mobile and internet technology solutions and content for world's leading brands.
BLStream excels in new and emerging technologies and offers innovations and new business models that leverage the constantly evolving multiplatform environment.
BLStream offers advanced technology solutions with strong emphasis on user experience. Our mission is to enable global brands to differentiate their offerings in today's converging environment through seamless integration of mobile and web services. We believe that the user experience will increasingly dominate not only in the consumer offerings and but also in the enterprise sector.
The clients include Nokia, Motorola, Symbian, Qualcomm, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures, Namco Bandai, Square Enix, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, BBC, ERA and Play.
About Gamelion
Gamelion is a creative studio focusing on casual games and funware, committed to creating success for its world leading customers. Since 2002 Gamelion has created engaging entertainment products for leading game publishers, media houses and handset manufacturers. The team creates entertainment with high production values and has a track-record of delivering critically acclaimed titles based on well known corner franchises of the global gaming industry.
In addition to team’s design and delivery capabilities, Gamelion has also one of the largest handset parks in Europe, offering professional Mobile Post Production services with maximum device coverage for carriers in Europe, US, Latin America and Australia.
PLAYSTATION, PlayStation and PSP are registered trademarks and PS3 is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
WiiWare, Wii, AND THE Wii LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF NINTENDO.
This press release in pdf.
30th JANUARY 2009 - GAMELION announces "Furry Legends", a WiiWare Development.
Gamelion announces an ongoing development for WiiWare. Debut title "Furry Legends" is a casual action and platform game.
In "Furry Legends" players take control of characters who are best described as a furry ball. "Furry Legends" will feature a couple of unique characters, each with its unique powers, allowing the player to perform various moves depending on the character selected. Players will be able to roll, jump, bounce, attack and perform other various moves with their spherical character. Gamelion aims to please both casual and hardcore crowds, with easy to pick up and hard to master gameplay, as well as brilliant, full 3D graphics packed with detail and a healthy dose of humor. The game features controls taking advantage of the Wii Remote as well as a robust physics system, which will be used to solve different puzzles player might roll into.
Key features of "Furry Legends":
- Robust physics engine, allowing the player to solve sophisticated puzzles
- Full 3D Graphics, with 2D gameplay
- Full screen post-processing effects
- Tons of humor
- Varied in-game environments
- Fun and cute characters
- Challenging levels
- Intriguing story
Łukasz Szczepański, Producer of "Furry Legends": "We're all very excited about this project. It's our first step into WiiWare, and we're committed to debut with a very polished, high quality title. The team shows a lot of enthusiasm for the project and I’m confident that we'll succeed in delivering a quality title to the gamers around the world."
In the near future Gamelion will release more information about the upcoming project. A developer's blog will be established on a dedicated website to inform the community about the developments, as well as to share the behind the scenes information.
"Furry Legends" is estimated to be completed in the first half of 2009, but no exact information can be given at this time.
For further information , please contact:
Anton Gauffin, CEO, Gamelion.
Email: anton at game-lion.com, Phone +48 606 111 200
Sebastian Szczygieł, Head of Production, Gamelion.
Email: sebastian.szczygiel at game-lion.com, Phone +48 606 101 500
WiiWare, Wii, AND THE Wii LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF NINTENDO.
This press release in pdf.
