Mobile Phone Games World

Nokia have announced today that a new range of games is to be produced by Mobile Phone Game developer, Digital Chocolate. Whilst there has been little news to excite existing N-Gage owners, this suggests that the Nokia bandwagon may be gearing up to deliver on their relaunch with a new model in the pipeline for later this year, in addition to the N-Gage software platform release that is due to roll out to existing and new N Series phones.

The games are expected to be released around Autumn time, and will be a selection of card and puzzle games, with built in networking and interactivity features.

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

Can Microsoft Score in Mobile Gaming? Microsoft, who to date have outsourced their mobile games titles to third party developers are lining up to make a significant impact on the phone games market.

Their plans include offering top notch games in their own right, but more importantly by linking mobile content with XBox games.

You can imagine playing chess on your mobile phone — it has a certain look to it — but your opponent is actually on the Xbox and is seeing much more advanced, three-dimensional graphics and sounds.

Taking this a step further, their vision is to extend the playability of XBox and PC games with mobile micro modules. Design a battle unit, or spec up a race car on your phone and then set them in motion in the full game when you get back home.

They have some catching up to do, but no one could argue they don’t have the resources to throw at the task.

Blue Star Mobile, the AIM listed content developer has posted their half year results and show a loss of £115,000 on £1.2 m sales, reduced from £155,000 this time last year.

The company produces content for third party clients, such as the Sun and the BRIT awards and seem well poised to tap into this growing market, providing an outsourced solution for other similar companies. Their shares rose 1.75p to 12p