SkillPod Media, although a relatively new player in the world of mobile apps and, more specifically, mobile game apps, is making headway in this congested market. The first of their apps were launched at the end of June 2011 and are currently published across Apple iTunes, Android Market, Amazon App Store, SlideMe.org, LG World and a host of other app stores across the globe. To date, 11 mobile games have been developed for Android and Apple iOS, all of which have been approved and are for sale across the various app stores.
SkillPod’s casual gaming platform off to a cracking start!
February 7th, 2011 | admin“If the first month of 2011 is anything to go by, then the rest of the year is going to be an incredible one” according to Mark van Diggelen – CEO of online and mobile casual gaming business, SkillPod Media, in which Convergence Partners has a strategic equity investment. “We’ve just completed a 7 month period of R&D, where we redeveloped our online and Facebook casual games platforms, adding a host of new features targeted at personalisation, customisation and monetisation.” As a result of this development the response from new and existing clients has been incredibly positive, with 20 new projects already confirmed. These include a number of new casual games portal deployments in the Middle East (these sites have been fully customised to cater for the Arabic language and the reading of content from right to left), UK, USA, Vietnam, Europe and South Africa.
Skillpod Media on The Tech Report
November 16th, 2010 | adminSkillpod Media, the online and mobile casual gaming business in the Convergence Partners portfolio of investments was featured e-TV’s Tech Report on the 21st October 2010. The programme highlighted the world leading platform developed by this SA company an the growth of casual gaming globally.
Imade Games teams up with Hungama Game Studio, a Skillpod Media Partner
November 16th, 2010 | adminIndia’s premier games developer and publisher, Hungama Game Studio (a leading Indian gaming studio), has partnered with Imade Games (a Castletown Corporation and Nextwave Multimedia Pvt Limited partnership). Hungama Game Studio has developed over 400 games in the last four years and teaming with Imade allows them to provide an innovative offering to the players, where each player has the option of personalizing all aspects of their game and further sharing it with friends. The games can also be shared with friends and family via social networking sites. The games will be available from November onwards on the websites of the Hungama networks.
Castletown Corporation and SkillPod Media tie up UGC deal
October 5th, 2010 | adminCastletown Corporation (UK) and SkillPod Media (RSA), in which Convergence Partners has a significant minority interest, have agreed a commercial deal aimed at positioning them in a major drive into user generated content (“UGC”) for casual games. This joint initiative, should result in yielding increased traffic and income from their existing asset bases. This will be achieved by combining SkillPod’s library of world leading games and existing technology platforms with the ‘IMADE’ technology developed for Castletown’s own website ‘ikoncity.com’. SkillPod and Castletown have produced a unique online application that allows users to create and run their own individually created games and contests. The deal also means that other commercial operators can use the software to create branded games for use on their own websites, creating value for their users and avoiding costly once-off production costs.
SkillPod Media and Integrat launch Play4Games mobile games portal
June 29th, 2010 | adminConvergence investees SkillPod Media and Integrat have launched their joint mobile games portal, Play4Games.co.za, which supports all the most popular smart phone handsets. The site has been branded as Play4Games and forms part of Integrat’s mobile entertainment brand Play4. The platform makes use of the Integrat High Gate mobile payments platform and the SkillPod Media mobile games platform.
Skillpod Media a Technology Top 100 finalist for 2010
April 29th, 2010 | adminThe Technology Top 100 (TT100) awards ceremony was held at Vodaworld last night. Convergence Partners’ investee SkillPod Media was a finalist in the Excellence in the Management of systems category.
SkillPod Media expands its global footprint via deal with RTL
November 1st, 2009 | adminLeading casual gaming business SkiillPod Media continues to expand its international footprint through the signing of an agreement with RTL Nederland for the delivery of a customised gaming solution for their online portal, http://www.spelsalon.nl/. View the full Press Release



