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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.”
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
