Mpowerplayer has announced that it has surpassed a milestone of 12 million mobile game demos, played by over one million consumers. Users have embraced Mpowerplayer’s PC-based try and buy storefront solution. As the PR goes on to say: “We’ve brought the iTunes approach to mobile gaming,” said CEO Michael Powers. “Now everyone can easily find…
SWAT Elite Troops now available on Mobile
SWAT Elite Troops, the follow-up to SWAT Force, has been released by Vivendi Games Mobile. The sequel apparently features an “Instant Tactical Decision” system, which we can only assume lets you make tactical decisions, instantly…. On a marginally more serious note, it would appear that the developers have optimised the game for mobile control –…
Didmo to bring Mobile Game Ads to US and Europe
Didmo has annoucned that it is bringing it’s successful ad-based mobile content platform to the UK, US, Germany, and Spain (in case you were wondering, Didmo have been operating in Scandinavia up to now). Didmo’s model revolves around in-game advertising, of which the games are usable for 24hrs. Users only have to see 4 seconds…
Greystripe and MoCondi partner to bring free mobile games to MoConDi’s MeYou community
If you’ve been reading IntoMobile carefully, you’re already familiar with what Greystripe and MoCondi do, as we’ve covered the both companies in the past. The former is the leader in ad-supported mobile games, while the latter runs a popular mobile social commerce community MeYou in Europe. Under the agreement between the companies, Mocondi is entering…
Publishers treat DS games like mobile games, says developer
Codemasters’ Pete Shea has attacked handheld console publishers who blame poor games on the platform. Shea’s “Race Driver: Create and Race” game (see image above) for the DS has a plethora of options, only usually found in a home console game. Shea believes that portable console games (and I would assume to some extent…
Bollywood star Neetu Chandra gets her own mobile game
Here’s something for our readers from India. Local mobile game developer 7Seas Technologies signed up Bollywood actress Neetu Chandra for an ambitious title called Neetu – The Alien Killer. The storyline goes something like this. Following the sever climate change that killed half of the world’s population, evil aliens took control over the good ol’…
Verizon Wireless launches Metal Gear Solid Mobile
Following on Nokia’s more developed and wide-ranging offerings with their N-Gage gaming platform, Verizon Wireless has announced the launch of their exclusive new 3D game, Metal Gear Solid Mobile. Made by the same folks that brought us Metal Gear Solid console games, Metal Gear Solid Mobile is a completely new game with novel features. The…
Gameloft licences Ferrari; Fast mobile games coming soon!
Gameloft has announced that it has signed a worldwide deal to make mobile games using the Ferrari brand. The first title is called Ferrari World Championship and should come later this month. The game puts you behind the wheels as Kimi Raikkonen or Felipe Massa, and in addition to racing in the current F1 season,…
Nokia promotes end of N-Gage beta with free game offering
Mobile gaming is about to get a little more exciting. At least if you own one of Nokia’s N-series devices (N81, N82, N95) that will play nice with Nokia’s N-Gage gaming platform. Until now, Espoo has limited the fun of N-Gage gaming to beta testers with Nokia N81 handsets. In return for making the N-Gage…
Jumble goes mobile
Fans of the popular Jumble puzzle in print now have a website where they can play eight different interactive daily Jumble games and download a Jumble puzzle pack to their mobile phones. Naturally, we care about the latter, and mobile users should except the same daily clues and answers found in more than 600 newspapers…