Samsung Mobile today strengthened its multimedia phone portfolio by launching its ultimate entertainer 8 mega pixel phone Samsung INNOV8 in the Indian market.

"Samsung INNOV8 takes mobile handset photography and multimedia experience to new hights offering users a top of the range camera technology, a surround-sound cinematic video experience, mobile internet browsing experience and gaming capabilities," Country Head Sunil Dutt told reporters here on the occasion of launching the new product.

Efficiently designed for mobile multimedia, the new product in the 'super phone' category was provided with the most innovative 24/7 multimedia entertainment features, he added.

"It also offers a fun, easy to use experience for those who want to get the most from the mobiles," he said.

We are glad to present you the announce of the new 3D shooter from Qplaze - Heroes of War: Sand Storm. Wars are never forgotten. They leave scars on the earth and in human memory - scars that are impossible to erase. Sooner or later they show through - through the frightful findings in the ruins of the ancient cities, dusty folders in the archives, nightmares of the whole generations. In retrospect we see: the whole history of mankind is a history of wars. Spears changes into missiles, and swords into automatic rifles, but over a period of thousands of years the main remained the same - the essence of the war. War doesn't let to look back.

Paramount Digital Entertainment, on behalf of DreamWorks Pictures, and FISHLABS, the world’s leading developer of high-quality 3D mobile phone games, announced their co-development of the Gladiator mobile game today. In the historical game, available at the end of the year, Gladiator fans and friends of high-end mobile phone games can indulge in adrenaline-soaked combats and fight their way along the difficult path to the final combat in the Colosseum.

Based on the original Paramount Pictures’ film licence, FISHLABS brings the historical, monumental empire of Gladiator right to all high-end Java and BREW mobile phones. The high-quality implementation of the famous film property offers a console feeling and allows free, breathtaking fights in 3D arenas. A 2D version has also been developed. 

Fans of outer space shooters can prepare themselves for tough battles: FISHLABS, leading developer of premium 3D mobile phone games, presents the second part of their multi-award-winning space shooter Galaxy on Fire™. The new mobile game, which will be released in the late autumn of this year, ties in to its highly praised predecessor and once again sets new standards in the field of 3D mobile games.

In this thrilling outer space episode, the mercenary Keith Maxwell, the hero of the first part, is catapulted through time and space by a malfunction in his spaceship’s hyperdrive. He wakes up 35 years later and finds himself in a changed galaxy, where the balance of power is gravely threatened: an unknown race has invaded the known space of the galaxy using wormhole technology and threatens the existing balance of power.

Hyderabad-based gaming company, 7Seas, has launched 7 3D mobile games across genres across the globe.

The seven games include "3D Sudoku" and "Planets of Sudoku 3D" (puzzle genre), "Neetu The Alien Killer" and "Great Elude" (action), "Treasure Trove" (adventure), and "Derby3D" and "Kraze" (racing) titles.

"Derby3D" and "Kraze" come as both single- and multi- player. "Great Elude", "Planets of Sudoku 3D", and "Derby3D" are multi-lingual and come in English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German.

Of the seven 3D games launched, "Neetu The Alien Killer" sounds most interesting partly because of the disconnect between such a common-sounding name and the fact that lady in question is described as an 'Alien Killer'. Actually, Neetu has much to do with Bollywood actor Neetu Chandra who plays the protagonist. The story revolves around Neetu's adventures as she slays the various aliens trying to eliminate the human race.

Advanced 3D Touch User Interface, Desktop-like browsing, 5-row sliding QWERTY Keyboard and Window Mobile 6.1 create hybrid business phone

HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its advanced next generation business phone, the HTC Touch Pro™. Bringing a beautiful new angle to mobile business productivity, the HTC Touch Pro utilizes similar styling and functionality of the highly anticipated Touch Diamond™ and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy.

“The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the one-hand, one-touch mobile Internet a reality,” said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp.  “HTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLO™ 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers.”

3DVU the premier global provider of 3D Picture Location Services and PocketGear, a leading provider of mobile content services announced product launch of Flyder, the first 3D Picture Location Based Game. As of today, Flyder US and Flyder UK are available worldwide through PocketGear's various distribution channels at a cost of $19.99. 3DVU's unique offboard 3D image mobile game is offered on a range of Windows Mobile and Symbian devices.

Flyder is based on a patented technology, providing 3D pictures on mobile handsets. Flyder lets consumers free fly over a real 3D picture of the entire US and UK letting users see places they've always dreamed of going to. This Virtual Travel Game lets users visit major cities, the finest National Parks and popular sites. They can also create a list of their own Personal Places by tagging locations.

Flyder is now available worldwide through PocketGear powered websites such as PocketGear.com (www.classic.pocketgear.com), Smartphone.net (www.smartphone.net), SymbianGear.com (www.symbiangear.com) and Mobile2Day (www.mobile2day.de) as well as additional web-based retail outlets.

TV ASAHI, Japan's major terrestrial TV station and Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC BB: ALIF, www.artificial-life.com) a leading full service provider of award winning mobile technology and applications, today announced the launch of a one hour interactive mobile participation TV show with the Japanese title: "Hoshi-ichi owarairyoku test" scheduled to air late night of June 14th, 2008. The Japanese celebrity, Kendo Kobayashi, will host the pilot show and guide television viewers through the innovative one hour game show format.

Qplaze announces development of 3D version of Age of Heroes – the most popular strategy/RPG for mobile phone.
Age of Heroes 3D will keep all features of previous versions of the game, but will also allow to realize lots of new features, available only in PC games:

• Hero will have realistic visibility zone;

• Night and day will appear on the map, it will influence creatures’ behavior;

• Rotation of the camera will allow to see area surrounding hero and hidden objects;

Concrete Software®, Inc., a leader in innovative mobile content, announced today that it has signed a worldwide agreement with the Professional Bowlers Association® (PBA) to produce and distribute a mobile bowling game under the PBA brand. PBA Bowling™ will be released in June 2008 worldwide just in time for the PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags which will be aired on ESPN.

PBA Bowling will be built with cutting edge technology including 3D graphics and mobile motion technology (the option to use real motion with the mobile handset to roll the bowling ball). Motion technology utilizes your mobile device's camera to detect movements and emulates a real throw, similar to the Wii remote. The game will also include 11 of the top PBA bowlers including today's top stars like Norm Duke, Pete Weber and Tommy Jones.

Glu Mobile has presented the Speed Racer game for mobile phones which is on the lines of Warner Bros. Pictures live-action film.

Become a Grand Prix champion with you mobile phone pumping an adrenaline rush through your senses. The Speed Racer uses the Car-Fu technique which is an artful driving skill and sense of oneness with the vehicle. The game involves drifting, sliding, jumping, and driving defensively which allows players to navigate extreme tracks and fierce competitors and obstacles. The fast and fierce game launches itself with 3 modes and the tracks keep unlocking themselves after each story is completed.

Gameleons has released its latest cell phone title, The Overtaker 3D, a fast-paced, first-person shooter. The game will be available in six different languages -- English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Polish.

Micazook has announced the launch of its social networking game, i-Citizen 3D for mobile phones. The company claims that it is the world’s first 3D avatar world for mobile handsets and supports 3G and 2.5G handsets.

After three years of intense hardwork and development, this chatting game offers multiplayer platform, wherein players have the freedom to choose from a multitude of cities such as London, Barcelona or New York and meet up with new people and socialize with them. This is one of the best options to make new friends.

After deciding on a particular city to visit, users can download cities onto their mobile phones and set up their profile to start interacting with people. The i-Citizen 3D title features a wide range of shops inside each city along with Hotels, Games and Cinemas. Another option besides socializing is gaming, in which gamers can try their hands on in-game and notice a totally different experience.

7Seas Technologies Limited, an independent game Development Company based out of Hyderabad, has signed an agreement with model-turned-Bollywood actress Neetu Chandra to develop a first-of-its-kind 3D mobile game.

"Under the agreement, 7Seas Technologies will develop a 3D mobile game with Neetu Chandra playing the lead character. The game titled on her name Neetu (The Alien Killer), is based on a unique game story and revolves around the lead character killing different aliens," Mr. Maruti Sanker .L, Managing Director of 7Seas Technologies, said. "3D mobile game development is the toughest challenge for the game developers as they have to offer same quality as PC or console but with a much reduced file size."

7Seas would be launching this game along with other genres of games like puzzle, racing, adventure and action during the next quarter through mobile aggregators and operators worldwide. "Apart from this game, we will also make available the game wallpapers, screensavers and ringtones of the game for Neetu Chandra's fans," Mr Sanker said.

Vivendi Games Mobile, a division of Vivendi Games, today announced the North American launch of Urban Attack(TM: 103.37, -1.04, -0.99%), the long-awaited, original and inventive first-person-shooter (FPS) mobile game. Urban Attack for mobile, which was recently released throughout Europe, has already received a number of impressive review scores and previews from press and fans around the world.

The Urban Attack game for mobile, in development for more than twenty months, is the result of considerable research and development involving advanced 3D vectorial graphics and is designed to deliver 3D shooting action across more than 400 handsets, from mid-range 2D devices to smartphones. Urban Attack takes the shooting genre to an entirely new level with a number of features never before seen on mobile phones.

Fishlabs, a developer of premium 3D mobile games, is now delivering its mobile games to end users from now on via email; eliminating the high data transfer costs often charged for downloads by mobile operators.

Fishlabs is the first vendor worldwide to offer hassle and cost free delivery of mobile games to its customers.

Before, depending on the type of mobile data-plan, charges for downloading a mobile game via mobile network can exceed the price of the game itself.

In the opinion of experts at this year's Games Developer Conference Mobile in San Francisco, these high and hidden data transfer charges are one of the main reasons for the slow growth of the mobile gaming market in 2007.

400 developers from 42 countries compete for $40,000 in prizes over five categories

Barcelona – WEDNESDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2008 – The International Mobile Gaming Awards, the largest competition for mobile games in the world, announced on Monday night this year’s winners at a crowded awards ceremony at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.. A jury of specialists from Japan, US and Europe selected the winners out of the 25 nominees from the US, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India, UK, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Australia.

The ‘Best Casual Game Award’ went to ‘Treasure Arm’, produced and published by Tequila Mobile from Poland, and ‘Furby Island’, produced and published by LemonQuest from Spain, won the ‘Best Licensed IP-Based Game Award’. The ‘Excellence in 3D’ award went to Digital Legends in Spain for ‘ONE’ published by Nokia, Jadestone from Sweden received the ‘Excellence in Gameplay’ award for ‘Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol’, published by Nokia, and the IMGA Jury decided not to hand out the ‘Excellence in Connectivity’ award this year.

The Second Life® experience is coming to mobile.  The 3D virtual world platform, created by Linden Lab® will soon be available on 3G handsets via Vollee's streaming mobile games service.    Beta trials for Vollee's new mobile offering for the Second Life Grid platform (an inter-connected platform which extends beyond the mainland of Second Life itself) will be open to those who pre-register by visiting: www.vollee.com/secondlife.

Vollee's Second Life mobile service will enable access to the virtual world of Second Life for Residents to explore, interact and communicate on-line.  The Second Life mobile experience reformats the online world to fit on mobile phone screens while mapping the keys on handsets to commands in-world.  Existing Residents can simply log-in and people new to Second Life can also try out the online world for the first time through the mobile service.  With a simple download to their 3G mobile handset, anyone can enjoy their online Second Life session while on the move. 

The results come from Hungarian company Kishonti, which specialises in measuring the performance of mobile devices. It uses it's GLBenchmark to run the graphics on the handset, and generate a rating. And to re-iterate, this is a specific 3D test - so it doesn't follow these are the best devices for 3D gaming, or other tasks - nonetheless, the results are interesting!

Zeemote has shown a wireless remote control for playing games on mobile phones

 Com2uS, a leading provider of mobile entertainment, today announced the launch of Action Hero 3D on Verizon mobile phones.

Action Hero 3D, the follow-up to the hit mobile game Super Action Hero, is a fully 3D mobile game with dynamic sound and camerawork. An action-adventure romp with 206 stages to explore, and 26 challenging bosses to defeat, Action Hero 3D has a fighting system including combo punches and kicks, yet game control is even easy for the beginners.

“Action Hero 3D combines cutting-edge graphics with engaging gameplay to create a truly memorable mobile-gaming experience,” said Don Lim, general manager, Com2uS America. “We believe high-quality games like this are the future of mobile gaming.”

One of the more eyecatching mobile applications on show at Nokia World today is called Mobile Secretary, from Chinese firm InterGrafx. It's basically a 3D avatar that acts as your virtual secretary, residing on your phone.

"It's very fun," says InterGrafx's Charles Chiang. "Your secretary handles things like SMS and incoming calls. You can choose different types of secretary from our server side, you can fire them and download a new one, or train them to be smarter. And you can even take a photo of someone, and put their picture on the avatar."

Despite glorious predictions, the Mobile Games market is clearly still failing to compete with the success of the console and PC games industry. In fact, many people are concerned that the Mobile Games market is close to saturation point.

For these reasons, the industry is once again meeting at The Mobile Games Forum 2008 on 23^rd and 24^th January at Sofitel St James, London to assess the current state of the market and its stability for the future. Now in its 5th year, The Mobile Games Forum is the industry’s most established and respected event.

Electronic Arts' mobile games will soon offer a 3D performance equivalent to traditional portable gaming consoles.

Broadcom and Electronic Arts recently signed an agreement to enable popular EA Mobile game titles on mobile phones powered by Broadcom solutions. The game titles will be optimized for the latest generation VideoCore III mobile multimedia processor from Broadcom, which supports HD content and graphics performance equivalent to today's dedicated handheld game consoles.

"Low power 3D hardware graphics acceleration will allow developers to create games for convergent mobile devices that can compete with or surpass games for dedicated handheld gaming devices. True high-resolution 3D graphics will entice consumers to download and play more mobile games," says gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon at IDC.

LEIPZIG— August 22^{nd, 2007—Adobe, NOKIA and MOVIDA have joined forces to support the fourth annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) as the main sponsors. In addition, the IMGA has announced sponsorship from QUALCOMM, NVIDIA, AMD and Belle de Mai Media Park, Marseille. The unique and exceptionally broad international support received for these awards reflects the growing importance of mobile gaming for the graphics industry worldwide and confirms IMGA’s leadership in the field of mobile games awards.}

Tokyo - Japanese cellphones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step - becoming completely three-dimensional.

Japan's Hitachi, Ltd has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones.

The gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic vision display, weighs only one kilogram and resembles an upside-down, multiangular pyramid full of mirrors on top of a liquid crystal display.

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA), which is currently in its fourth year, is inviting mobile game developers to participate and compete in an international arena with top studios as well as individual developers from all over the world.

It is interesting to know that the first mobile games were launched ten years ago in 1997. And, now, ten years later, a large variety of mobile games ranging from casual games, to high-end 3D games, multiplayer and even social networking games are available in the market today.

Thus, the International Mobile Gaming Awards has a mission- to reward and recognize the best innovators and the most creative mobile game from all over the world.

Our mobile phones will be slimmer, 3G-enabled and sporting 3D fascias. That's if your expectations are based on handsets now available in Japan, where NEC has just unveiled the world’s slimmest clamshell handset for the W-CDMA network that features a stereoscopic fascia.

The rectangular N704iμ handset, which has just gone on sale in Japan over the NTT DoCoMo network, measures 10 x 5 x 1cm and weighs about 90g. It also has a maximum continuous stand-by time of around 690 hours, a continuous talk time of around 200 minutes and continuous video calling time of around 135 minutes.

The phone is also equipped with an LCD screen that provides a resolution of 240 x 345 pixels.

New device can render 100 million polygons a second - a performance that far surpasses that of current handheld game consoles

Toshiba has come up with a dedicated 3D graphics chip it reckons will add previously unseen levels of realism and excitement to games played on mobile phones. The new chip, the TC35711XBG, can render 100 million polygons a second, a performance that far surpasses that of current handheld game consoles.

Samples of the new graphics chips will be available from October 2007.

But as David Britten, vice president of technology at mobile developer/publisher Superscape, pointed out in his case study of the company's development of a 3D-accelerated version of its Ducati 3D Extreme game, the consistency of hardware remains a problem. Some devices still don't support OpenGL ES, while other cause problems because hardware manufacturers don't always ship product with standardized firmware.

3G.CN Brings User-Generated 3D Moving Picture and Animated Messaging
Services to World's Largest Mobile Market

Bellevue, WA - June 19, 2007- Vidiator®, a leading provider of mobile multimedia solutions, and 3G.CN, China's largest and most popular Mobile WAP Portal have launched Vidiator's patented Xend™ 3D Avatar hosted services in China it was announced today. Vidiator and 3G.CN will deliver 3D avatar-based cards, messaging, advertisements and newscasts, and with 3G licensing on the horizon in China, 3G.CN's services using Vidiator's Xend will be well-placed in the largest mobile market in the world.

This is the first deployment of 3D Avatar Cards and Messaging in China and opens Vidiator's Xend user-generated 3D avatar services to over 450 million subscribers, 130 million who use mobile Internet.

Utilizing the RIPP3D graphics engine, Duke Nukem Arena 3D allows players to assume the role of a Paratrooper, Pigcop, or Duke Nukem and battle against up to three other players.

"SkyZone is serious about marquee content acquisition, and our relationship with MachineWorks NorthWest gives us the ability to deliver a more high-end gaming experience to subscribers," said Bob Shi