Glu has revealed its line-up of games to be released in Europe in the coming months. Here’s what the mobile games publisher is preparing for all of us: Transformers: G1 Awakening – another, hopefully better Transformers title Sushi Shuffle Super Slam Ping Pong Wheel of Fortune Lemmings Tribes – rescue three tribes of Lemmings; includes…
Unique way to promote mobile gaming site
It’s a known fact mobile gaming is set for an explosive growth and it doesn’t surprises that many of the top handset makers want a piece of this lucrative market. According to Juniper Research, this [mobile gaming] market will reach $10 billion within a year… With marketing efforts like the one illustrated on the image…
Zeemote, Nokia to partner in Germany
Zeemote’s biz dev team is working round the clock for the summer. Following the announcement that they will partner with Sony Ericsson, the maker of the award-winning Zeemote JS1 Controller announced a deal with Nokia in Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, the Finnish giant will advertise the Zeemote JS1 Controller in its German…
RSPCA releases free Mobile game for animal welfare
The RSCPA (an Animal welfare charity) has launched it’s own mobile game called MobiDog, developed by UK company Lateral. This game is following on from a web-based cyberpet concept, also launched by Lateral. However, MobiDog isn’t a virtual pet game, it’s a collection of dog-themed mini-games, which are a spin on arcade classics. The overriding…
EA Mobile acquires rights to “Deal or no Deal”
EA Mobile have just acquired the rights to the popular moneyed-quiz game “Deal or No Deal”. They snapped up the rights from Endemol, who we all know as the creator of Big Brother. Interestingly, Gameloft had previously owned the Mobile rights, where the game had become a top-seller. So this is a major coup for…
EA Mobile and Handango do a distribution deal
Handango has announced an agreement with EA to publish EA Mobile’s games – these would be games such as Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled. The games will be available through it’s “InHand” on-device application. The InHand client is by enlarge a Smartphone client stack, so…
Gameloft bringing Death Race to mobiles
Gameloft has recently announced a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group to develop and publish the official mobile game of the upcoming blockbuster – Death Race. Pushing the limits of the mobile racing game, Gameloft’s Death Race captures the full throttle action of the film’s dystopian world in which the most extreme racing…
Spice Mobile launches Spice X-1 gaming phone in India
No wonder Sony Ericsson is interested in acquiring India’s Spice Mobiles. Their recently launched gaming phone, Spice X-1, looks like something the Swedish-Japanese handset maker may release in the not-that-distant future as part of its “F” series of mobile gaming friendly handsets. Back to Spice X-1. It’s clearly a mobile phone designed to appeal to…
N-Gage goes beyond mobile with Reset Generation
We’ve already seen several games that were ported from mobile to web (PC) and the other way round. However, we haven’t seen Nokia going this way, at least for now. Their latest N-Gage title is called Reset Generation and it could be played on both N-Gage compatible mobile phone or on a PC as an…
Sony Ericsson to bundle Zeemote JS1 controller with W760i in the Netherlands
Just when they unveiled that Gameloft will make its games optimized for the JS1 controller, Zeemote announced a new “partner in crime” – Sony Ericsson. The Swedish-Japanese handset maker will bundle the Zeemote JS1 with the W760i Walkman phone in Netherlands. The offer will run from August 8th 2008 to October 31st 2008 throughout hundreds…