Gameloft announces mobile games for touchscreen handsets

With touchscreen enabled handsets getting all the attention these days, it doesn’t surprises that a major mobile game studio like Gameloft announced that it will launch a series of games especially designed to take advantage of a touch based input.

We don’t know now the exact list of games the company will release in the coming months, but we are certain they have the required expertise. As a matter of fact, aside from developing games for touch-enabled Nintendo DS, they have more than 15 “touchscreen mobile titles” in catalogue — including Block Breaker Deluxe, Brain Challenge, Bubble Bash, Platinum Solitaire, Chessmaster, Miami Nights: Single in the City, Paris Hilton’s Diamond Quest, Sexy Poker Manga, Catchphrase, Deal or No Deal, Shrek the Third, Real Football: Manager Edition, and CSI Miami. These games were mostly developed using Java, though some were made as native apps for Windows Mobile platform.

So what’s next? Well, I guess Gameloft is eagerly eyeing the release of iPhone SDK and first Android-based devices, when we’ll see them flushing the public (and media) with press releases.

Commenting on the touchscreen-based mobile gaming, Gameloft’s President and CEO Michel Guillemot said, “This is a new step in terms of development, one that leads us to rethink how we approach our game controls so that players can interact directly with the screen and get a greater gaming experience. Touch screen games are perfect examples of how modern technology can advance the gaming industry.”

[Via: slashphone]