iPhone game developer ngmoco releases it’s latest title, Dropship

Rating: New game tries control system different from usual iPhone tilting games

ngmoco is a games producer that makes content exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s most recent offering, Dropship, is a graphics-intensive full 3d space shooter, where the player takes control of spaceship flying around a maze, shooting obstacles and rescuing allies. Unusually [...]

Mobile gaming specialist Player X Distribution teams up with AdMob for off-deck advertising

Rating: New deal creates better revenue opportunities for mobile gaming producers

Player X Distribution offers a lot of different services to its clients in the realms of mobile video and TV, but it’s main speciality is as a mobile gaming aggregator. With links to over 140 operators globally, it has a potentially huge reach. The services [...]

Namco attempts to keep hot mobile game PAC-MAN fresh with updated release

Rating: One of those rare occasions where wishes actually come true

When Namco announced the launch of a new PAC-MAN pinball game last month, it mainly served to make me want to play some original PAC-MAN. Happily, Namco Bandai Networks Europe have now released an updated version of PAC-MAN for mobiles.

What’s new?
There’s not a lot you [...]

Mobile In-Ad Mobile Gaming company Unkasoft uses Microsoft AD Server Atlas for GameSpace Project

Earlier this week, the small yet dynamic Spanish mobile gaming business Unkasoft – that I have followed since they launched – announced a partnership with Microsoft for mobile advertising.

What is the deal?
Microsoft’s Atlas will be used for Unkasoft’s GameSpace mobile portal.
 
Instead of just re-writing the press release I twittered Juan Antonio Munoz-Gallego Co-Founder of UnKasoft [...]

N-Gage angry. N-Gage smash!

Rating: City life getting you down? This game might offer brief respite.
On particularly bad days, the morning commute can be enough to make a person seriously consider burning down everything in sight. Nokia have released a game, Mega Monsters, through their N-Gage platform to help redirect those destructive energies.
Players take control of a massive monster [...]

Namco Bandai launch PAC-MAN Pinball 2, for people who hate only playing one game at a time.

Rating: Sequel takes advantage of mobile tech developments
2005’s PAC-MAN Pinball game was an odd combination of two of the most beloved (and ancient) franchises in gaming. Players could play PAC-MAN themed virtual Pinball machines, with graphics and music inspired by the original arcade game. Has much changed?
Yes, actually. Taking advantage of advances in mobile devices, [...]

Sonic Boom uses Facebook to build its brand

Rating: First trivia mobile game on the social network, apparently
Why not leverage the growing power of the social networks to promote your mobile games and brand? That’s exactly what Sonic Boom, a with the launch of what it claims is the first mobile trivia game on Facebook.
 Sonic’s Name That Movie game offers thousands of trivia [...]

Player X brings another console hit to mobile

Rating: Kept the Playstation deal a bit quiet, eh, Monty?
In a long-distance ear-bending exercise from India, my old chum Monty Munford, has been trumpeted the latest success for Studio X, the publishing arm of  mobile game specialist, Player X.
I’m supposed to be excited that it’s now possible to play the LEGO Batman videogame on a [...]

123play.com Mobile Game Advertising goes European

Following its success in the UK, free mobile gaming company 123play is making its services available in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
What does it do?
123play is based on a very simple idea. The more people who see an advert, the more effective that advert will be. So if everyone who wants to play games on [...]

Namco Bandai The X Factor 2008- The Mobile Game

In Ireland last week I was in a bookshop and the girls working there were talking about the X Factor. The conversation went like this.
“I had a really wild night last night”.

“Really? Where did you go?
“Name of place in Dublin”
“What did you do?”
“I stayed in to watch the X-Factor”
“OMG. Don’t tell me. I have it [...]

O2 hooks into off-deck from Player X

Rating: Pay per play most popular
O2 UK has become the first mobile network operator to appreciate the value of tightly integrating independent (off-deck) content services by signing a deal with Britain’s Player X.
The new gaming service - officially known as 100% Mobile - has been fully integrated with O2’s existing portal O2 Active, thanks to [...]

Prizemo funding plus Show You the Money

Prizemo LLC, a participation media company that develops interactive entertainment for online, mobile, and t.v. audiences, today announced that it is launching a new game show, Prizemo’s ‘Show You the Money,’ that allows players to win cash and prizes for correct answers to trivia questions by sending mobile text messages or by playing online.

Prizemo?
They are [...]

Yahoo! Mobile Fantasy Football

Yahoo! Inc. kicks off the fantasy football season with new game features, mobile access, and Cleveland Browns’ wide receiver Braylon Edwards as Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football ‘08 cover athlete.

This year’s game gives fans new tools, including a new draft application with extensive player data and more personalization options. Fans will also have better access via [...]

The iPhone is all fun and games according to Cellufun

Cellufun is a community driven mobile gaming portal offering free games and to coincide with the iPhone launch has released stats that claim to show the iPhone is the phone mostly used for fun and games.
From the Press Release:
Cellufun offers free, highly engaging games to over 5 million unique monthly users and serves over 70 [...]

Greystripe offers ad network API to iPhone games/application developers

Yes I know I know its iPhone day and we hope to hear from one of our intrepid contributors, Hi Darla!, as she gets to grips with being iReady!,
but we are also aware that for you our readers, monetising the 2nd iPhone release through applications and services is a new business opportunity for some [...]

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