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- Ubisoft Acquires Gameloft’s Indian Dev Studio
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Officials from French publisher and developer Ubisoft have announced that the company has agreed to acquire the Indian development studio of primarily mobile phone focused developer Gameloft.
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- Sega Mobile Announces 2008 Line-up
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Sega Mobile has announced its line-up of releases for the rest of 2008, including Sonic at the Olympic Games, SEGA Columns Deluxe, Beijing 2008: The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, Samba de Amigo, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Crazy Taxi.
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- THQ Wireless Announces Worms 2008
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THQ Wireless has announced an agreement with Team17 Software to publish Worms 2008: A Space Oddity for mobile handsets worldwide. The title is to retain "all the familiar award-winning gameplay and unique sense of humour that has epitomized the brand for more than a decade."
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- Konami Announces Dance Dance Revolution Design Contest
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Konami Mobile has announced an online design contest for the upcoming Dance Dance Revolution mobile game, open to fans of the franchise to design their own game design element of the game, with the winning design to be featured in the upcoming mobile title, to be released this fall.
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- Glu To Develop And Publish The Price Is Right, Family Feud
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Publisher Glu Mobile has announced that it has signed a deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises , the brand extension arm for FremantleMedia, giving it multi-year, exclusive rights to develop and publish mobile games based on the game shows The Price Is Right and Family Feud in North and Latin America.
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- Other Ocean: iPhone To Be Major Player In Market
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In a release revealing that it was behind Sega's iPhone Super Monkey Ball demo revealed in March, Gordon Wood, senior developer at former Foundation 9 studio Other Ocean said he believed Apple's newly opened platform would end up a 'major player' in the handheld market.
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- EA Mobile Confirms Commitment To Smartphones
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EA Mobile has confirmed its commitment to smartphone platforms, including BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, announcing that they are to continue to distribute a growing slate of smartphone games, including titles such as Tetris and Bejeweled.
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- Nokia Launches N-Gage Service With EA, Gameloft Titles
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Nokia has announced that its long-awaited N-Gage mobile games service and community has been launched globally, with an initial range of five compatible Nokia devices, and publisher support from EA (FIFA, Tetris) Gameloft (Dogz) and Nokia itself (Snakes Subsonic).
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- Guitar Hero III Now Available On Blackberry
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Developer Hands-On Mobile has announced that in partnership with Activision, Guitar Hero III Mobile is now available on BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion, distributed to BlackBerry smartphone users by mobile game distributor Magmic Games via its online storefront Bplay.com.
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- Gamasutra Adds Staff To Award-Winning Sites
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Leading game industry site Gamasutra has announced new additions to the staff of its award-winning web publications, with former Shacknews EIC Chris Remo joining its suite of websites as Editor-At-Large, and Eric Caoili now aiding as Gamasutra Associate News Editor and Co-ordinating Editor of its market-specific sites.
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