I just saw the newest Rambo film the other night, and I have to say, wow. Just wow. There isn’t really much else you can say with such an awesome display of violence on show. I think just about every way to shoot, kill, or stab someone was covered in that film! (Go see it,…
Report questions whether Mobile Gaming Industry advancing
A new report from M:Metrics says that although more people are playing mobile games, the amount downloading them has stayed the same. This apparently can be explained by the fact that more people are using to, and sticking with, the games that come preloaded on their handsets. The research also found that from UK, France,…
Samsung gaming phone patent looks promising though complicated
What we have today is transformable Samsung phone patent. Apparently, the Korean giant thinks its the bad ergonomics that keep mobile gaming space from exploding. Hence they want to fix that with a phone like the one pictured above. As you can see for yourself, the device they’re talking about has a clamshell form factor…
Gameloft announces mobile games for touchscreen handsets
With touchscreen enabled handsets getting all the attention these days, it doesn’t surprises that a major mobile game studio like Gameloft announced that it will launch a series of games especially designed to take advantage of a touch based input. We don’t know now the exact list of games the company will release in the…
N-Gage gets Glu’d
Glu Mobile have announced their initial line-up of games for the N-Gage platform this year. Two of the titles are based on films (Speed Racer, and The Dark Knight), and there are also ‘Super Slam Ping Pong’, and ‘Super K.O. Boxing!”. Comment: it’s great to see titles coming to the N-Gage platform – if you’ve…
Follow-up: video: Imagination Techologies
Remember a few days back I mentioned about gaming, and how it should be advancing due to things like hardware acceleration? Well there is a nice short video on the BBC News website, which features a mini-interview with a spokesman from Imagination Technologies – one of the companies involved in this next generation of boosting…
Nokia mobile gaming news recap
Lately, Nokia’s mobile gaming division has been quite busy. We’ll try to recap all the things that happened during the last week or so. Let’s roll… First we saw Nokia Games Publishing releasing Yamake, an easy to use set of tools that allows players to create their own games from a range of mini games.…
More on 3D: with and without hardware acceleration…
Following on from my post yesterday about the best 3D handsets, I’ve come across this absolute nugget of a story, which is also a remnant from MWC. Imagination Techologies had a stand at MWC which compared the N81 (without dedicated 3D hardware) and the Nokia N95 (which does have) – so this was the N81…
Top 10 phones for 3D performance
Pocketgamer has been busy, working out which handsets on the market have the best 3D performance – of course, this is a somewhat subjective measure, because as anyone familiar with benchmarking knows, if you give a processor a task it excels at compared with others, it is bound to win! Anyhoo, the test in question…
2007 International Mobile Gaming Awards winners announced
Want to try out some mobile games but are unsure which titles rock? Maybe you want to try some of the games honored at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Without further ado, here’s the list of the awarded titles: Best Casual Game – Treasure Arm – Tequila Mobile, Poland Best IP based licensed – Furby…