Now this is cool. It might not be a “game” in the classic sense of the term, but bored iPhone owners are sure to get a kick out of Aqua Forest as soon as the AppStore launches this week. Rather than pit some randomly useless gaming skill against a computer or multi-player network, Aqua Forest…
Gameloft launches NFL 2009; American football fans rejoice
They got the license and they’re releasing the game with all 32 NFL teams, players of the 2008-2009 season, stadiums and detailed stats. Ladies and gents, (American) football fans – Gameloft’s NFL 2009 is here! NFL 2009 brings a brand new NFL experience to mobile by offering ultra realistic game plays, enhanced AI and the…
Video: Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart on the iPhone
The iPhone has already started to bring mobile gaming back from the plateaued purgatory that it’s been trapped in for the past few years. Huge display, accelerometers, graphics acceleration, and multi-touch make for an immersive gaming experience that serves up a feast for your eyes. Check out this here video of Crash Bandicoot Nirto Kart…
Artifical Life has Bustin’ Balls…
Despite the slightly dodgy-sounding title, Bustin’ Balls is a game based loosely around Football (Soccer) – released by Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc. The goal of the game is to infiltrate a soccer match and win by using as many cunning tricks as possible. The player must help Buster sneak into a stadium by stealing…
Glu’s new Mobile games – 3 goodies…
We’ve mentioned plenty before about Glu’s Mobile releases, and have even laid out what was coming in Q108. Well, time passes, and AppScout has been kind enough to pick out three of Glu’s newest crop of games that should amuse us during our idle down-time: DiRT – 3D racing game, which implicitly asks the ephemeral…
Guitar Hero 3 Mobile Edition … er… can we have it please?
Following on neatly from my last story about Hands-On Mobile having worked on GH3M, I wanted to pick up on a point that was raised by The Inquirer – namely that GH3M is not available in the UK or Europe currently – the classic “coming soon” is I am sure applicable, but given it’s success…
Apple Corps to go Mobile with Beatles game?
According to The Inquirer, it’s quite possible that Apple Corps (that’s the Beatles’ record company, not the Steve Jobs Computer company) will be creating a video game based on the Beatles music catalogue. The Inquirer also believes that because of this, we could get Mobile versions too! The FT is quoted as saying that the…
EA Games exec leaves to start iPhone gaming company – Ngmoco
Ngmoco is the newest mobile gaming start-up to hit the scene. With mobile gaming getting a renewed push from the iPhone, Neil Young decided it was time to leave his executive position at EA Games to form a new start-up aimed at making games exclusively for the iPhone. Apparently, a stagnated mobile games market was…
Worldwide Mobile gaming revenue to hit $4.5bn this year
Well they are, according to Gartner at least! I am just going to pull some very brief highlights here: Mobile game revenues will reach $6.3 billion in 2011 North America will pull ahead of Western Europe over the next few years and be a larger market as Americans adopt more data services in general Asia…
Sega and Glu do Beijing Olympics Game
Glu and SEGA Europe are partnering to publish Beijing 2008™– The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games and Sonic at the Olympic Games™ throughout EMEA, Australia and New Zealand. The game will be developed by SEGA, and feature four events. Coooool, this could be a button-mash frenzy! Anyone remember the really old Olympic…