Mobile Phone Games World

Mercurynews.com reports that Electronic Arts has agreed to purchase mobile game distributor, Jamdat, for $680 million.

Whilst this obviously ties in well with the mobile games that EA have release, and continue to develop, it also adds depth to their sales strategy.

The deal, which will be subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to complete in April

No new N-Gage until 2007 due to poor sales to date.

As the N-Gage has failed to come close to Nokia’s hoped for 6 million unit sales, further development plans seem to be on hold, with Nokia concentrating instead on mobile music and mobile tv.

With the N-Gage technology being incorporated into Series 60 phones, game development shouldn’t suffer, and there is no indication that the current model will be discontinued.