Mobiles reviews - gaming

RSPCA releases free Mobile game for animal welfare

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:14:59 +0000

The RSCPA (an Animal welfare charity) has launched it’s own mobile game called MobiDog, developed by UK company Lateral. This game is following on from a web-based cyberpet concept, also launched by Lateral. However, MobiDog isn’t a virtual pet game, it’s a collection of dog-themed mini-games, which are a spin on arcade classics. The overriding message [...]

EA Mobile acquires rights to “Deal or no Deal”

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:20:48 +0000

EA Mobile have just acquired the rights to the popular moneyed-quiz game “Deal or No Deal”. They snapped up the rights from Endemol, who we all know as the creator of Big Brother. Interestingly, Gameloft had previously owned the Mobile rights, where the game had become a top-seller. So this is a major coup for [...]

EA Mobile and Handango do a distribution deal

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:58:40 +0000

Handango has announced an agreement with EA to publish EA Mobile’s games - these would be games such as Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled. The games will be available through it’s “InHand” on-device application. The InHand client is by enlarge a Smartphone client stack, so those [...]

Gameloft bringing Death Race to mobiles

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:25:13 +0000

Gameloft has recently announced a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group to develop and publish the official mobile game of the upcoming blockbuster - Death Race. Pushing the limits of the mobile racing game, Gameloft’s Death Race captures the full throttle action of the film’s dystopian world in which the most extreme racing competition [...]

Spice Mobile launches Spice X-1 gaming phone in India

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:28:14 +0000

No wonder Sony Ericsson is interested in acquiring India’s Spice Mobiles. Their recently launched gaming phone, Spice X-1, looks like something the Swedish-Japanese handset maker may release in the not-that-distant future as part of its “F” series of mobile gaming friendly handsets. Back to Spice X-1. It’s clearly a mobile phone designed to appeal to the [...]

N-Gage goes beyond mobile with Reset Generation

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:51:23 +0000

We’ve already seen several games that were ported from mobile to web (PC) and the other way round. However, we haven’t seen Nokia going this way, at least for now. Their latest N-Gage title is called Reset Generation and it could be played on both N-Gage compatible mobile phone or on a PC as an [...]

Oxxo - The most confusing iPhone game description

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:25:08 +0000

With the Apple AppStore essentially open to anyone, anywhere with a desire to code applications and games for the iPhone 3G and iPhone, there’s been a deluge of new software popping up every day. But, there’s a problem to the open invitation to develop software for the iPhone - nonsensical software summaries and descriptions. Doc Macenstein [...]

Quake founder John Carmack: iPhone better than dedicated gaming systems

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:40:44 +0000

If you have an iPhone or, better yet, an iPhone 3G, you’re probably well aware of how powerful the iPhone is as a media, web surfing, and gaming platform. Pairing a powerful set of processors and graphics acceleration technologies with the huge multi-touch display has made for a mobile gaming platform unlike any other currently [...]

AppStore boasts 1,001 iPhone applications - Buying iPhone apps isn’t too painful

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:40:16 +0000

Steve Jobs seems to think that the AppStore “is a grand slam,” and we can’t find any reason to not agree. With unrivaled platform integration and third-party applications that readily take advantage of the iPhone’s multi-touch interface and various sensors, the AppStore has proven to be a boon for iPhone, iPhone 3G, and even iPod [...]

Gameloft adds Zeemote JS1 Controller support

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:08:08 +0000

While we’re still waiting to see Zeemote entering retail channels, they’ve announced that Gameloft is on board now. It’s a big news for the developer of the mobile analog joystick, and we can only hope they’ll start selling their wonder sooner rather than later. Commenting on the announcement, Gameloft’s Gonzague de Vallois said: “The Zeemote JS1 [...]

iPhone NES emulator 2.3.0 released; Accelerometer support included in the mix

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:10:03 +0000

You know you can play NES games on your jailbroken iPhone, right? The famous NES.app has been recently updated to add accelerometer support in the mix, allowing you to go beyond virtual on-screen buttons. Now, I’m not sure how that will help Mario score more points, but I can clearly see the benefits of using an [...]

GarageGames brings Torque to iPhone - 2D and 3D game development made easy

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:59:28 +0000

The iPhone as a gaming platform. Who knew? Well, Apple probably foresaw their iPhone’s huge multi-touch display and capacitance-based touchscreen as perfectly suited for the mobile gaming environment, but the iPhone’s tremendous appeal as a mobile gaming platform has been somewhat of a surprise to many. Nevertheless, mobile game developers has embraced the iPhone, as evidenced [...]

DC Comics, Glu team up to release Superman-Batman mobile game this December

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:13:17 +0000

Here’s something for both Superman and Batman fans. DC Comics is partnering up with Glu to release the Superman/Batman joint game this December. We’re not sure how the end result will look like, but according to Glu’s Jill Braff, all elements that make a great game are there - “superhuman powers, adventure and exciting characters [...]

Worldwide Mobile gaming revenue to hit $4.5bn this year

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:36:36 +0000

Well they are, according to Gartner at least! I am just going to pull some very brief highlights here: Mobile game revenues will reach $6.3 billion in 2011 North America will pull ahead of Western Europe over the next few years and be a larger market as Americans adopt more data services in general Asia is big opportunity: The [...]

Sega and Glu do Beijing Olympics Game

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:40:39 +0000

Glu and SEGA Europe are partnering to publish Beijing 2008™– The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games and Sonic at the Olympic Games™ throughout EMEA, Australia and New Zealand. The game will be developed by SEGA, and feature four events. Coooool, this could be a button-mash frenzy! Anyone remember the really old Olympic games-style [...]