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Verizon's V Cast Service Brings 3 New Gameloft Games

Verizon, the second largest mobile operator in the US, announced yesterday the availability of three new mobile games, developed by Gameloft, through its V Cast service. Subscribers of V Cast will be now able to download and play NFL 2009, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing and The Oregon Trail. NFL 2009 is a mobile game t...

8 October 2008
04:27 GMT

Gameloft Will Develop 10 Android Games

Gameloft, a well-known developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles, announced last week that it was planning to develop over 10 games to run on the Android open-source platform.This means good news, mobile games fans! Bubble Bash, the game that is currently available for iPhone and other mob...

29 September 2008
08:44 GMT

Nokia N-Gage's Yamake Lets You Create Your Own Mini Games

Nokia Games Publishing has just announced its Yamake for N-Gage, a new game that allows users to create their own mini games by adding personalized content. After you've created your games, you can play and share them with friends and the Yamake community. "Yamake is a groundbreaking new game for the N-Gage pla...

14 February 2008
12:47 GMT

Nokia's N-Gage Paltform Finally Launched, Together With Share on Ovi

Nokia finally released its N-Gage gaming platform, a pre-release actually (under the name of N-Gage First Access) that allows only owners of Nokia N81 phones to try and buy N-Gage games. Although not a full launch, this pre-release is definitely a good sign for the new year and we should expect the full N-Gage advent...

6 February 2008
14:07 GMT

Vivendi Games Mobile to Distribute Its Titles via Nokia Catalogs

Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile division of Vivendi Games, announced an agreement with Nokia to bring its line-up of mobile games to Nokia handsets via the Nokia Download! and Nokia Catalogs shopping applications. The announcement follows an earlier agreement between the two companies to make Vivendi's titles a...

10 January 2008
10:21 GMT

No N-Gage This Year, Nokia Delays It For 2008

N-Gage, the mobile gaming platform from Nokia, initially planned to be launched in November this year, was delayed again, after a first delay that postponed its launch for this month (December 2007). Although mobile gamers and Nokia fans were eager to try the N-Gage platform this holiday season, the Finnish company h...

27 December 2007
03:24 GMT

$10 Billion Revenues from Mobile Games

Mobile games revenues generated by end-users will reach $10 billion by 2009, according to a study performed by Juniper Research, due to the fact that casual gaming's popularity is increasing and the range of mobile phones supporting high quality 3D graphics for core games becomes wider. By 2009, at least 460 mil...

9 November 2007
09:28 GMT

Disney Announces Xmas Season Mobile Games

Disney Mobile Studios, division of The Walt Disney Internet Group EMEA, announced today the line-up of games to be launched for the Christmas 2007 season. Disney Mobile always created original IP-based games and brought popular Disney franchises to gamers, so this year will come with five key titles for our mobile ph...

5 November 2007
09:04 GMT

Online Casual Gamers Would Play More Mobile Games

I-play, the mobile entertainment company, revealed the results of a recently conducted survey which shows that 38% of casual online games customers also play games on their mobile phones and 45% of them would play their preferred online games on mobiles, if they were available. 22% of the respondents said "yes" and...

30 October 2007
10:03 GMT

The International Mobile Gaming Awards Nominees Announced

The International Mobile Gaming Awards Association announced the final 25 nominees for this year's competition. The nominees are divided in five categories: Excellence in Connectivity, Excellence in 3D, Excellence in Game Play, Best licensed IP-based Game and Best Casual Game. IMGA offers $40,000 in cash to the ...

19 October 2007
05:58 GMT

3D Graphics from AMD Boosts Mobile Games Quality

AMD has plans for making mobile phone graphics look better than ever before, with a new technology. The main use for this solution will be in the gaming field, as developers will have the chance of producing much more visually appealing applications."AMD's graphics technology is based on years of high-quality gr...

2 October 2007
09:41 GMT

Mobile IQ Trainer, the Game to Flex Your Brain

Ojom has just added Mobile IQ Trainer to its line of mobile phone games for challenging players in a brain-stimulating way. This application packs a large number of the most appreciated such concepts, also bringing a great amount of variety. The Mobile IQ Trainer is one of the most accessible ways of putting the pers...

3 September 2007
08:31 GMT

Nokia and SNAP Mobile Looks for Exceptional Game Developers

SNAP Mobile has launched a challenge for mobile phone game developers in order to help them enter the market and become professionals. The Mobile Rules! Multiplayer Competition at the Develop Conference & Expo will attract them to develop games on the SNAP mobile platform."The Mobile Rules! Multiplayer Competition le...

24 July 2007
10:57 GMT

Partnership Between Shadow Light Games and Player One

Shadow Light Games and Player One have announced to partner in order to find best solutions for mobile game development and distribution. The agreement between the two companies will span over the next two years, concerning all licenses.Shadow Light will take care of producing new versions for Player One's most ...

12 July 2007
09:56 GMT

Mobile Games Seminar 2007 Being Prepared

This year's edition of the Mobile Game Seminar is preparing for its line-up series of events. Speakers will conduct sessions on programming, production and game design along with debates trying to reach most convenient solutions.Attendees of the Mobile Games Seminar will have the chance of discussing with indust...

12 July 2007
09:33 GMT

International Mobile Gaming Awards Looks for Its Winners

This year's edition of the International Mobile Gaming Awards is preparing for the festivities of granting the winning title to the most creative game concept that will subscribe.This is one of the most important competitions in the domain and has also considerable importance in the evolution of the winner'...

3 July 2007
02:43 GMT

Tomb Raider: Legends Review

Lara Croft looked great on PC screens everywhere. Two guns in her hands, tight shorts and revealing top, that looked like the ultimate tough chick, the one you'd follow everywhere and just love to help her run, swing, jump and fight. Turning all this action into a mobile game might sound at first as ruining all ...

29 June 2007
10:38 GMT

How Difficult Can "Surviving Hollywood" Be?

Vivendi Games received great appreciation from gamers everywhere with the "Surviving High School" franchise. Because of this, it was just about time for the launch of a new game based on the old concept, but with several slight differences.Surviving Hollywood is just an expansion of the gaming concept found in the p...

21 June 2007
10:31 GMT

The Chinese Mobile Gaming Potential Seen by Ozura

China has registered a massive growth in the number of subscribers over the last few years. This has made it one of the most tempting markets for mobile telecommunication expansion. Ozura has managed to break it through with the help of several partnerships.Predictions reveal that China has high chances of adding 160...

21 June 2007
08:18 GMT

Jenga Blocks of Fun Come to Mobile Phones

One more classic game is taken from its classic environment and on to mobile phones. It is the case with I-play's Jenga family and party game which will be available for play time anywhere from now on, due to the mobility of handsets.Jenga is a classic wooden brick stacking game which asks for players to remove ...

20 June 2007
09:27 GMT

Happy Lines Review

Some of the most addictive games are usually based on a simple concept, but require a great amount of logic from the player. That's just what Happy Lines does. It teases your mind and gets you addicted on winning until you just can't seem to have enough. And then you find yourself playing until the mobile p...

18 June 2007
08:51 GMT

Partnership Between Digital Chocolate and LG

LG and Digital Chocolate have closed a partnership in order to bring game titles of top quality for mobile phone users everywhere.Entertainment plays a big part in making mobile phones appealing for their users. For this reason, Digital Chocolate will provide some of the best titles they have produced until now, of a...

16 June 2007
02:46 GMT

BallRush Aqua Review

More than 30 years have gone by since the first Break Out game appeared as an arcade version. A long time has passed by since then, but new versions of it keep popping out from who knows where.Ballrush Aqua follows the pattern set by the old Break Out game, there's no doubt about it, but I was pleasantly surpris...

15 June 2007
11:34 GMT

Game Publisher Workshops from Nokia

There's always room for improvement, especially in a developing field such as mobile gaming. For this reason, key game publishers will gather in order to find the most efficient solutions for developing.The workshop will include some of the most important mobile game publishers from China and Japan. Problems of ...

14 June 2007
12:05 GMT

750,000 Mobile Phone Games Downloaded Every Month

The impressive number of 750,000 mobile games downloaded per month has been reached only on the MobiRated website. This, along with other statistics prove the fact that mobile gaming has lately developed at a fast pace.Other impressive numbers show that 4,5 million such games are being downloaded each month in Korea....

13 June 2007
04:29 GMT

LOST Mobile Game Available on iPods

The LOST mobile game has proved to be a great success until now, which has encouraged Gameloft to bring it to iPods too. "Join your favourite castaways in their quest to seek the truth and survive", sounds the company's encouragement.LOST is the 14th game from the ones available to be played on iPods. It can be ...

23 May 2007
08:18 GMT

Get "Stolen in Sixty Seconds"

Here is another game developed by the Russian mobile game creator, HeroCraft, that breaks the boundaries of normal, modern life. As the developers called it, $tolen in $ixty $econds, the game brings the thrill and action of a bank heist right on the mobile phone.The user plays the role of the leading man in a crimin...

30 April 2007
06:32 GMT

I-play Presents 'Absolut' Value Initiative

I-play, the leading mobile entertainment company has unveiled its European Value Strategy, through which the company's casual mobile games portfolio will be offered to consumers under the banner of 'Absolute'. It will enable end users to download two full games for their mobile in one great value bundl...

14 March 2007
09:49 GMT

Indiagames to Bring Games to Nokia's N-Gage Platform

Nokia has finally announced the latest games and publishers for its next-gen N-Gage platform. Along with Glu Mobile, that had already confirmed its support for the N-Gage platform, today THQ Wireless and Indiagames have also announced they'll be joining the growing lineup of publishers that already includes EA M...

6 March 2007
07:03 GMT

Mobile Game Revenue Records Massive Growth

According to research conducted by Telephia, the world's largest provider of consumer research in the telecom and mobile media markets, on-portal mobile game revenue jumped to $151 million in the fourth quarter of the last year, which means it has increased with 61 percent compared to the same period in 2005. A...

6 March 2007
05:01 GMT

RumbleX Gets New Look and Functionality

RumbleX is a free community service for mobile gamers, that was developed by OrangePixel since 2005. The system, which is constantly growing, is currently sporting 55.000 players and contains over 283.000 high scores. The service is offered for free, and players can register for a free account to get advanced trackin...

2 March 2007
04:57 GMT




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