Makers of Cellphone Video Games Suddenly Find Great Expectations

May 17th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

At E3, the annual video game industry trade show this week in Los Angeles, one of the fastest-growing technologies may be the one that comes in the smallest package. Video games for cellular phones are beginning to catch on with consumers, and that is making hot properties of companies that develop games for tiny mobile devices.

Electronic Arts, the world’s largest independent video game publisher, plans to showcase this week eight phone games that it intends to release over the next year. The company, however, is playing catch-up to a handful of start-ups. More … More … (2)

The End User: Cell games come of age

March 11th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

In-Fusio is a little French company with a big presence in the global world of games you can play on your cellphone.

For now, many of us take a spin through the games menu on our phones only because of the Mount Everest phenomenon: because it’s there. But that is the extent of our adventurousness. Mostly, we stick to solitaire or poker games. . But In-Fusio, your mobile phone carrier and the rest of the industry want game-playing by phone – either by yourself or with others – to be part of your standard daily entertainment. More …

Community features boost downloads

February 13th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Small Planet, a developer of mobile entertainment and enabling technology products, has upgraded Tilt.tv’s mobile content service with new community features. This has increased the game downloads by 60 percent.

Tilt.tv is the leading Finnish gaming lifestyle TV-show with average weekly audience of 150 000 viewers. Thousands of Java games for mobile phones are sold each month with prices EUR 5-7 per download. More …

Turbo Squid Announces Forum for Mobile Game Developers

December 2nd, 2004 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Initial Partners include Hybrid Graphics, Face2Face, and Versaly

Turbo Squid, home of the world’s largest collection of royalty-free 3D products available for download, today launched a new discussion forum for mobile game developers. The Mobile Developer’s Forum, or MDF, was designed primarily for developers creating 3D content for Java M3G (JSR 184). The MDF was created with support from graphics technology developer Hybrid Graphics, whose M3G implementation is used in Discreet’s 3ds max 7

Cell phone gaming gathers momentum

August 17th, 2004 by Ashu Mathura Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Wireless gaming is a match made in venture capital heaven: The mobile carriers need new ways to hold on to its customers; the gamers need ways to find new ones. Small wonder, then, that financing is flooding in to the handful of companies looking to become the Electronic Arts of the wireless gaming market. More …