February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »
This is one that no one saw coming. After transferring their European non-iPhone business to competitor EA Mobile, Namco now announces to have licensed Flight control for non-iPhone platforms.
The company expects to launch Flight Control on J2me, Windows Mobile, Brew and Android in July of this year. There will also be a DSi version of the game that is under development at Firemint.
“We are honored to work with a company that is considered to be an innovator in our space,” stated Scott Rubin, vice president of sales and marketing at Namco Networks. “Collaborating with Firemint to provide casual game lovers with a mobile version of the top selling brand is a proud moment. The Flight Control experience transfers perfectly to the targeted mobile platforms because of the intuitive controls and pure simplicity.”
Firemint’s CEO, Robert Murray, commented, “Having sold over two million copies on the iPhone in under a year, Flight Control has achieved amazing success. Our partnership with Namco began over three years ago with our development of Rolling with Katamari and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with them again. It will be a great feat to see our game reach an even broader demographic with the mobile edition.”
UPDATE – Corrected some facts and included quotes
