In partnership with Big Fish Games, Namco Networks has released a mobile version of the casual PC hit game Atlantis Sky Patrol. If you still haven’t played it on a PC (shame on you), you should know it’s basically yet another colored marble matching game, featuring hundreds of levels and even several minigames. Your goal…
Antix does deal with Motorola
Antix has just announced a deal with Motorola to put it’s ‘Game Player’ client on Z8 and Z10 handsets. This is initially going to be a download, but later in the year will become a preload (i.e. ‘out-of-box’ experience). I suppose the first question(s) is/are going to be what/how/why? Well, Antix’s aim is to provide…
Greystripe adds 10 new distribution partners; Free games coming to the portal near you
The largest distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications Greystripe announced addition of ten new distribution partners to its network. In total, Greystripe’s AdWRAP Catalog Platform now boasts 40 partners — including Opera, and the newly added Zedge, Cellware, Tagtag, Funformobile, GameMobile.co.uk, Kobrawap, Lasyk, Esato, MobileRated and Buzzcity. Greystripe’s catalog features over 900 mobile games…
Gamevil releases Baseball Superstars 2008; Baseball fans rejoice!
Here’s one for baseball fans around the world. Gamevil has released Baseball Superstars 2008, the newest instalment in their Baseball Superstars mobile game series. There are 8 different teams to choose from, 4 unique stadiums to compete in, and 3 (Season, Exhibition and My League) modes to play in. You can also create, customize, and…
UK: Gemma Atkinson Launches NFS-M with Three
OK so there is some (albeit small) Mobile news here: Gemma Atkinson was on hand to help 3 launch the Sony Ericsson W910i (with Need for Speed Mobile preloaded) the other day at their Islington store. Good, that’s the serious part done. [Via: pocketgamer.co.uk] Now, moving on swiftly, for those of you that don’t know,…
EA vs Gameloft for games publisher top spot
EA and Gameloft just announced their financials for the last quarter of 2007, which lets us see how they did in respect of each other…. (note: there is some dollar/euro conversion fun going on here, as EA is US-HQ’d, where as Gameloft is based “dans le France“) 🙂 For the WHOLE year, it was tight…
Sunset – JavaScript-based FPS RPG for the iPhone
Thanks to the iPhone’s powerful CPU and quite capable Safari web browser you can run many of the popular web services on your shiny handset. In addition, you can also play some basic DHTML/JavaScript based games. The basic part is there to emphasize that so far we haven’t actually seen any “serious” web-based title released…
Vivendi to release Prison Break, Bourne Conspiracy, and Spiderwick Chronicles mobile games
Vivendi recently announced that it has scored licenses to release the US TV drama, Prison Break, based mobile game, as well as mobile games based on two blockbuster movies – The Bourne Conspiracy and The Spiderwick Chronicles. In addition, the game publisher will also launch other games — including Crash Nitro Kart 2 (sequel to…
Operator outsourcing of games is a GOOD thing….
… at least that’s what Sven Halling of End2End says (by the way, his company runs the outsourced games services for Vodafone, amongst others). You may remember a post I made last week relating to Virgin Mobile outsourcing their games and video delivery, so this is a follow-up. Sven does make a good point actually,…
THQ Wireless to make Playboy-branded games
THQ Wireless has announced that it has signed a worldwide agreement with Playboy Enterprises, Inc. to exclusively develop Playboy-branded mobile games. The multi-year Playboy agreement covers the development and publishing rights to multiple Playboy-branded, lifestyle themed, non-nude mobile games featuring “bikini-clad Playmates to be released worldwide.” The first title, Playboy Games: Pool Party –scheduled to…