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EA is following up on their BlackBerry PlayBook release of Dead Space over the summer with a handful of other recognizable games. Casual puzzler Bejeweled 2, urban planning strategy game SimCity Deluxe, and classic board game The Game of Life are now all available in BlackBerry App World.
EA was in a good spot to get a head start on RIM’s tablet. The PlayBook launched with their game, Need for Speed Undercover, which gave them access to the native SDK that few developers get. Now it looks like they’re comfortable and ready churn out many of their mobile properties for the PlayBook, but even outside of the tablet, EA has a pretty substantial collection of BlackBerry games.
SimCity Deluxe and The Game of Life are going for $6.99, while Bejewled 2 is $2.99. Those are all relatively high prices in the big world of apps, even for tablets, but given the lack of quality titles available for the PlayBook, I can hardly blame them.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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