By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
EA Mobile has announced availability of five new titles for Mobile devices. They are:
The Sims 2 Castaway
The Sims Pool
Monopoly Here & Now
Yahtzee Adventures
Merv Griffin’s Crosswords
Granted, this isn’t the most exciting of news, so I moseyed on over to the EA Mobile site to take a look around. It brought up a few things in my mind:
EA own my favourite Mobile game of all time – Tetris – the ultimate spare time killer!
EA have mobilised quite a fair share of their Console catalogue – albeit the names are there, but the versions of game are quite rudimentary compared to their console cousins
EA also has DOOM!
EA own JAMDAT
It’s going to be very interesting to see, with the advent of the games powerhouse that is N-Gage, how EA interwork with it – between N-Gage and EA, I would suggest there is the potential for some extremely good games – genuinely compelling, but still with that all-important “dip in, dip out” feature. Give me Rainbow Six Las Vegas 2 on my N95 and I’ll be a happy man!
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas!
He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and
infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the
occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience
in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with
regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.