Tag Archives: mobile gaming

Fez developer Polytron has claimed Zynga wanted to secure a mobile port of the Xbox Live Arcade game.

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Keiji Inafune, known for creating games such as Mega Man and Dead Rising, believes the differences between handheld and mobile gaming are as stark as those between DSLR cameras and the one that’s built into your mobile phone.

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Pocket Gamer is reporting that they have insider information leading them to believe that Apple is planning an October 5th reveal of their latest iPhone.
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Sure, your humble mobile communication device is loaded up with 27 different versions of Angry Birds right now, but time makes fools of us all. Just, you know, fools with really awesome cell phones.

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A new report from industry analysts predicts that consumer video game spending will be down compared to the previous year.
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“I’ll tell you one thing,” said a UK journalist at the end of last year’s E3. “The mobile’s dream’s well and truly over.”

It really did seem like it. For endless years, the mobile games industry had been banging the drum of promised success, but two factors had always prevented the supposed explosion from finally happening. Firstly, the games were either rubbish or completely misappropriated to the casual audience. Secondly, the carriers didn’t take gaming seriously, and delivery methods and presentation across a bewildering swathe of handsets was both stupidly flawed and obviously impractical.

With no central focus to last year’s E3 for the first time in its history, there was no way for the believers to get their products in front of journalists by default and the awful truth emerged: no one cared. All that VC was looking very ill-advised indeed.

The situation for mobile gaming, however, could well have changed dramatically last week.

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