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Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Jeff Valder, Jonathan Sharp & More
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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Prairie Moves: Carl Zulauf, Alex Gates, Megan Hunt & more
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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While Angry Birds flies high, BATTLE BEARS pack continues to grow
This past September, SkyVu Pictures, the creators of the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android app BATTLE BEARS, announced that their download total for paid and unpaid apps reached 4 million. This month, that number surpassed 6 million. One iteration of the game, BATTLE BEARS -1, is currently the #3 Free Adventure Game in the iTunes…
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Midlands Business Journal’s 2010 ’40 Under 40′
Earlier this month, the Midlands Business Journal, a weekly trade publication in Omaha, released its annual “40 Under 40” list recognizing 40…
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In one year, BATTLE BEARS reaches 4m download mark
The team at SkyVu Pictures is hitting milestones, once again. In addition to celebrating the one year anniversary of the release of their first BATTLE BEARS game, they recently hit the four million paid and free download mark for their entire BATTLE BEARS game franchise. In the company of the original BATTLE BEARS, is BATTLE…
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Prairie Moves: SkyVu Pictures, Oxide Design, 9 Clouds Inc & more
(Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Prairie Moves: Allied Strategy, Phenomblue, Dwolla & more
(Photo by IndigoValley via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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BATTLE BEARS -1 is out, ‘huggable’ spotted at College World Series
The popular free iPhone app BATTLE BEARS, a game created by Omaha-based SkyVu Pictures, now has an official prequel, BATTLE BEARS -1. Unlike previous versions, the new gameplay allows you to move the main characters, OLIVER and RIGGS, throughout the playing area as they defend the Ursa Major ship from invaders. Benjamin Vu, creator of…
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Looking Up: SkyVu Pictures reaches great heights
The following article is part of a special insert in the June 3-9 issue of The Reader, a weekly newspaper focusing on the area’s culture. | Things are looking up for Omaha’s SkyVu Pictures Inc. The animation studio, originator of BATTLE BEARS (currently the No. 1 adventure game in 50 countries), specializes in mobile games…