Tagged: JOLT
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Tech tycoon delivers delight to digital natives News
26.03.2013 In 2003, two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Dylan Collins and Sean Blanchfield, did a very unfashionable thing at the time. They started a technology company in the... -
Jolt spin-off creates massive game universe based on real-world locations News
15.03.2012 Ballardia Games, a new games company formed by former Jolt executives, has developed a new game called World of the Living Dead that makes innovative use of Google Maps and US... -
Dylan Collins gets into the green game News
04.02.2012 We hear that successful games entrepreneur Dylan Collins – the supremo who sold Demonware to Activision for US$15m and whose subsequent venture Jolt was snapped up by GameStop –... -
Ireland is getting ready to play to win 4,500 video games jobs News
10.10.2011 Globally, the video-games business is expected to reach US$82.4bn in revenues by 2015 and, if Ireland plays its cards right, it could double its employment in core games...Tags: IDA Ireland, Forfas, Enterprise Ireland, Video Games, Gaming, Mobile, Activision, Havok, Demonware, JOLT -
MMO games to be massive on iOS, Jolt CEO says News
22.03.2011 While the iPad 1 and iPad 2 and the various iPhone devices have proven themselves as fantastic gaming devices, the unexplored potential of massively multiplayer online (MMO)... -
Becoming the internet capital of Europe News
01.11.2010 Siliconrepublic editor John Kennedy says the arrival of the technology world’s elite, including Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Twitter founder... -
GameStop acquires Flash game portal Kongregate News
28.07.2010 The world’s biggest games retailer GameStop has acquired a leading Flash-based social gaming community for an undisclosed sum as part of its unfolding strategy to be a major... -
Internet start-ups generate cheap, fast return - Collins News
03.03.2010 Dylan Collins, the young entrepreneur who by the age of 30 had sold three successful technology firms, says Ireland needs to focus more on generating a larger number of internet...Categories: Special Events -
FarmVillain nets 500,000 players in first month on Facebook News
14.05.2010 A Facebook game with an irreverent take on FarmVille jointly developed by Dylan Collins’ JOLT Online and new Irish gaming company Silly Goose has attracted 500,000 users within...Categories: New Media, Apps Zone, Apps, Development, Digital Media, Media, Social Media, Web Development, Multimedia -
Demonware founder’s new online game goes live News
01.04.2009 Demonware founder Dylan Collins has gone live with his new online browser game Legends of Zork, and his publishing company Jolt has established offices in Dublin, Los Angeles...Categories: New Media