With Tomb Raider's 10th Anniversary approaching, Eidos have chosen to release a full 3D version of console title Tomb Raider: Legend for mobile. Games on Deck talks to Jim Blackhurst, Tomb Raider: Legend's producer, about the project.

Games On Deck: Could you let us know a bit about yourself, what your role has been on this project, and what you have worked on in the past?

Jim Blackhurst:< ...

With 3D graphics, video games came of age. 3D opened the door – literally – to another dimension, an imaginative universe that gamers could inhabit and explore, rather than a world they passed through on rails. As soon as 3D technology became available in mainstream games, developers and gamers embraced it so fully that 2D became a niche almost overnight, albeit one revived years later on the relatively weedy mobile phone.

However, things are moving on. If you've obtained a contract phone at some point over the last 12 months, the chances are you own a gaming machine more powerful than every portable console up to the Nintendo DS, capable of producing 3D graphics that wou ...

Allows Millions of Users to Chat, Photo Share and Shop in a 3D Environment SoftBank Mobile Ships Handsets with New Platform.

November 6, 2006

SAN MATEO, CA – Gemini Mobile Technologies™, a leading developer of wireless software, today announced a new software platform to power mobile communities. The Gemini platform, called eXplo™, is the foundation of a new 3D interface from SoftBank Mobile Corporation in Japan, named S! TOWN™.

S! TOWN gives users their first experience with a rich graphical community to chat, communicate and shop across their wireless devices. SoftBank Mobile’s new S! T ...