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.”