D’oh! Homer is about to enter our mobile screens! 🙂 EA Mobile is adding the final touches to the “Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown” mobile game. The idea is to ride the coat tails of The Simpsons Movie’s multi-million dollar global marketing campaign, with the release of the game scheduled in the US later this month…
iWhack iPhone game – Smack Steve Ballmer
Here’s an iPhone game for true Apple fans. iWhack is developed using JavaScript and is best played in iPhone’s widescreen mode. The goal of the game is simple – all you have to do is smack as many Steve Ballmers as possible. Microsoft’s CEO will come out of the holes, and it’s your mission to…
World Poker Tour cellphones by Sony Ericsson
Here’s something for all you guys and gals who like to gamble and at the same live outside the U.S. — as online (and I guess mobile) gambling is prohibited in the States. PhoneHouse France has been selling limited edition Sony Ericsson K750i handsets branded by World Poker Tour logo – K750i WPT. The phone…
Voice coming to mobile games
Shouting at your opponent from a mobile phone sounds cool, doesn’t it? Apparently, that’s exactly what we can expect from mobile games in the not-that-distant future thanks to the technology called IP Multimedia Subsystem, or simply “IMS”. Basically, what this technology brings is some kind of peer-to-peer (P2P) functionality to the mobile gaming world. Just…
ALONG Mobile to launch “Hello Kitty” sports mobile games
ALONG Mobile Technologies has partnered with Beijing You Jie Le Communication Technologies to develop and launch a series of mobile games based on the highly successful and widely popular cartoon character – “Hello Kitty.” You’ve lost me at “widely popular”… 🙂 Anyway, ALONG Mobile (other company will provide the legal copyright and publishing rights in…
Morfik announces iPhone web development tool; Now it’s easy to make iPhone-optimized web apps
I’m certain many of you are looking forward to get their hands on the upcoming iPhone. Furthermore, I guess some of you would like to make their own iPhone-optimized Web apps. Well, now it seems easier to do, thanks to the Australian Web software developer – Morfik, who have announced that its WebOS AppsBuilder will…
Houdini: Escape from Dead Water coming to America
If you enjoyed watching the Houdini movies, this one’s for you. Tag Games has struck a new distribution deal with Oasys mobile to bring its popular “Dead Water” mobile game to the American market. The game is already available in Europe, but in the States it will be sold as “Houdini: Escape from Dead Water.”…
Apple and Nintendo working together on iPhone games?
All mobile phones come with some games preinstalled. What about iPhone? So far we haven’t heard a thing about games being available on Apple’s handset. That’s about to change… Apparently, Apple is working with no one else but Nintendo to push some of the game developer’s popular titles on its mobile Mac OS version. Nintendo…
The Fast and The Furious: Fugitive
Love racing games? Don’t change the channel – you’ve come to the right place! 🙂 During this year’s BREW 2007 conference, I-play has unleashed the fourth sequel of its racing franchise – The Fast and The Furious: Fugitive. As there is no fourth movie sequel, the story behind the Fugitive is the new one, and…
Rise of the Silver Surfer goes mobile
I used to love the Marvel comics, especially the Silver Surfer. That’s why I’m happy to tell you that the new mobile game based on the latest sequel of the Fantastic Four, featuring the mentioned Marvel’s superhero, has been released by Hands-On Mobile.