NBC Sports Branded Wireless Video Games Coming to Mobile Phones

August 10th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

AEGF Mobile Games, a partnership between Abandon Entertainment and GF Capital Management & Advisors, and NBC Sports, today announced a partnership on an exclusive worldwide mobile gaming license to create NBC Sports branded games. Under the deal, AEGF will use NBC Sports content to create unique and challenging wireless video games available on mobile phones, many of which will be directly interactive with NBC Sports broadcasts. The announcement was made by AEGF Mobile Games Principal, Marcus Ticotin and NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer. Read on …

THQ Wireless Teams With the NFL and PLAYERS INC

August 9th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

More Than 16 New NFL Player Ringtones, Official NFL Player and Team Wallpapers, NFL Skills Challenge and NFL Football 2006 Are All Expected to Launch on Major Carriers. Read on …

Cosmic Infinity Enters Licensing Agreement With Buena Vista Television for ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire(R)’ Mobile Games

August 5th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

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Glu Mobile Launches AstroPop(TM); Stellar Mobile Action Puzzler to Be Glu’s Next Intergalactic Hit

August 2nd, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | 1 Comment »

Glu Mobile (formerly Sorrent, Inc. and Macrospace Ltd.), a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment today announced the launch of AstroPop(TM), an action-puzzler based on the original Web and PC title from PopCap Games(TM), a leading developer of casual computer games. The critically-acclaimed mobile title earned IGN.com’s Editor’s Choice Award and strong praise from GameSpot’s Steve Palley who said, "AstroPop is a game that should appeal to virtually every mobile gamer out there, since it strikes just the right balance between minimalism and challenge." Read on …

Player X introduces ‘Space Boy’

July 26th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Player X and Vodafone have created an entirely new form of entertainment for mobile phones with the forthcoming release of Space Boy. Space Boy is your own personal ‘cell mate’, who lives and breathes in your mobile, feeding off texts and phone calls.

Space Boy is the first character in the innovative new ‘Mobies’ series of interactive mobile phone friends, which are a cross between a mobile game, a tamagotchi and a screensaver. More …

Interview: Fox Mobile set to I-Play with 24 license

July 26th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

One of the biggest licenses in television is on its way to mobile handsets, with I-Play today announcing plans to create a game based on 24 in partnership with Fox Mobile Entertainment. Kieran Weir spoke to the key players in the deal…

I-play has today announced their strategic partnership with Fox Mobile Entertainment, a potentially lucrative deal that will see the company develop, publish and distribute a genre-busting mobile game for genre-busting TV show 24, we catch up with I-play COO David Gosen and Fox Mobile Entertainment VP of Wireless Marketing Leighton Webb to talk about their new alliance. More …

EA Inks Big Deals

July 20th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Electronic Arts’ mobile division, EA Mobile, has signed two major agreements with Verizon and Sprint PCS to deliver a host of games based on the gaming giant’s major franchises and Pgo.com content. EA Mobile has already delivered its first mobile title in the Verizon arrange, Need for Speed Underground 2, on the carrier’s exclusive V CAST service. More …

Vivendi Universal Games’ Wireless Division Extends New Mobile Game Offerings In Europe And Other International Markets

July 19th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced that its newly formed wireless division will launch five new mobile games based on its popular global franchises.

The first two games, Sierra Entertainment’s SWAT® Force and Larry’sTM Sexy Pinball, will be available to consumers starting in July 2005. The other three titles will also launch in 2005; additional details will be announced at a later date. WonderPhone will distribute all five games in Europe, South and Central America, Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, Kuwait, Bahrain and Fiji. VU Games will also launch the five titles in North America shortly following. More …

Quake

June 28th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | 1 Comment »

The mobile gaming world is going to shake when the legendary QUAKE hits handsets later this year. Thanks to an agreement announced today between id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive, the blockbuster first person action shooter created by id SoftwareTM is rolling onto a new generation of 3D-enabled mobile handsets. More …

Cell Phones Newest Gambling Players, But US Shut Out

June 27th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Games | No Comments »

Online poker is especially fast-growing. The average daily number of players in the Internet’s most well-traveled poker rooms zoomed from about 2,400 at the beginning of 2003 to about 60,000 in recent months, according to PokerPulse, a Web site that tracks online poker sites. More …