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- Konami To Offer Mobile Titles On Sprint Phones
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Developer and publisher Konami Digital Entertainment announced a partnership with carrier Sprint to provide its mobile game catalog to Sprint customers, beginning with Contra 4 and eventually offering other titles, such as Frogger and Castlevania.
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- Nokia Announces Mobile Games Innovation Challenge Finalists
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Nokia announced ten finalists for its Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, a contest encouraging the development of "innovative" mobile game concepts. Three winners will receive Nokia Publishing pre-production contracts and cash from a pool of €70,000 ($94,000) to further develop the concepts.
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- Best Of Finger Gaming: From Rolando to Perilar
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Every week, Games on Deck's sister iPhone site Finger Gaming sums up the past seven days' releases and news for Apple's nascent portable games platform -- this time covering ngmoco's three forthcoming iPhone titles, a free preview for music-based rhythm game Thumstruck, Ultima-styled and turn-based RPG Perilar, and more.
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- Report: U.S. Mobile Gaming A Billion Dollar Industry
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A new report from market research group In-Stat claims that the fragmented U.S. cellphone gaming market is already worth $1 billion, with 30% of cellphone owners playing games on their handsets. Despite significant challenges, the firm sees global growth to $6.8 billion by 2013, partly thanks to the rise of the iPhone.
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- GameEvil Announces Super Boom Boom 2 With Microtransactions
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Los Angeles-based mobile games publisher Gamevil announced its plans to launch Super Boom Boom 2: Space Adventure with a microtransaction system in October. The game allows users to purchase virtual currency which can go towards new stages, items, and mini-games.
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- THQ To Distribute Player One Sports Titles Worldwide
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THQ Wireless, a THQ subsidiary, announced a five-year, multi-game agreement with UK-based publisher Player One to distribute their branded sports titles for mobile handset worldwide, beginning with Pool Star: Atlantic City and Phil Taylor’s Power Darts 2008.
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- Capcom Consolidates European, North American Mobile Teams
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Mobile developer and publisher Capcom interactive unified its European and North American mobile operations under a single management team, a move the company expects will better leverage its mobile offerings on a global scale and maintain product consistency cross-territory.
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- PopCap Games Launches Peggle Mobile
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Developer and publisher PopCap Games launched Peggle Mobile, a port of its popular puzzle game currently available for PC and Xbox Live Arcade, for handsets in the United States, with a release planned for the United Kingdom and parts of Europe in the coming weeks.
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- Magmic, Paramount Release Eagle Eye Mobile Game
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Paramount Digital Entertainment and developer and publisher Magmic Games (Call of Duty 4 mobile) announced the mobile game launch of Eagle Eye, which is based on the similarly titled DreamWorks film currently playing in theatres.
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- Gameloft Pledges Over 10 Titles For Android
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Developer and publisher Gameloft announced plans to develop over 10 titles for Android, Google's open source mobile platform. Bubble Bash will be the first Gameloft title to launch for Android in the first quarter of 2009.
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