After listening to several panels and presentations—spanning over two days at GDC Mobile—discuss how difficult it is for game publishers to survive in a carrier-dominated world, Jill Braff, the SVP of Global Publishing for Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) gave a very different perspective. “I think people like to blame carriers…

David Collier, who runs a mobile content provider in Tokyo called Pikkle, told developers today at GDC Mobile how Japanese game developers are avoiding two of the industry’s biggest headaches—sharing revenue with carriers and porting the same game to hundreds of handsets. “There is a new type of application category…

In many ways, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) keynote this morning was an hour-long advertisement, explaining to developers why they should pick the Ovi platform the next time they build a game. Anssi Vanjoki convincingly stroked their egos, saying he was there to speak to developers because: “We believe it’s going to…

This morning, Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki took the stage, appealing to the hundreds of developers in the crowd by telling them that their value and creativity have been limited by the carriers. Vanjoki’s statements were a continuation of yesterday’s panels and speakers who were predicting that the carrier’s dominance in distribution…

In back-to back sessions at GDC Mobile today, industry executives challenged the notion that carriers will continue to control the distribution of mobile games in the next few years. Panelists said the status quo will change as economics shift, off-deck providers become stronger, and to a lesser extent, ad-supported games…

In GDC Mobile’s opening day keynote,  Michel Guillemot, Gameloft’s CEO and President, said he wasn’t there to talk about the fun bells and whistles about the gaming industry, but to address how the industry is in the middle of a huge change, which is limiting growth. Last year, he said:…