Entries for the 'Mobile 3D Games' Category

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. 

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.”

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.}

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.