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Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Jamdat shareholder sticks it to EA

Small rebel force leads desperation mission against the Empire (hint: aim for the exhaust port)

In response to videogame giant Electronic Art’s announcement last week that they were buying mobile game company JAMDAT for USD 680 million, a JAMDAT shareholder has filled a class-action lawsuit against EA in the hopes of preventing the acquisition. Shareholder Elliot Fox feels that the purchase is unlawful because it would intentionally sell JAMDAT for too low of a price to EA. Fox stated:

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Brady Bunch Fighting Game Comes to Mobiles

WTF Marcia?

While the mobile games industry is still striving towards respectability, it is certainly having no problems getting weirder and weirder. 1up is reporting that developer Mobliss will soon be releasing Brady Bunch Kung Fu for cell phones.

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G-Spot Gets Down in Singapore

Halo
Nelson Triana, aka G-SpOt, is the best Halo player in the world. We’ve been getting him to send us blogs of his recent trip to the World Cyber Games finals in Singapore in exchange for us being able to use him as a guinea pig to document the experiences of a professional gamer newly exposed to the world of mobile gaming.

G-SpOt doesn’t talk about mobile games in this post, but you should still read it; otherwise, he might get angry. I mean, c’mon, look at him. That’s 100% ice cold. You know what he’s saying to you right now? He’s saying ‘don’t buzz the tower, Maverick.’ And you better not buzz that goddamn tower, or he will shove his foot so far up your ass, you’ll puke all over Goose’s grave. Goose! You’ve lost that lovin’ feelin…

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Nintendo offers up classic IPs for cell phones

Yeah, so it’s not really mobile gaming news. Deal with it. Any way to get Mario on your mobile is a good thing, even if it only serves as a reminder of all the fun you’re not having with your cell phone.

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Virgin Mobile UK to Trial Ki-Bi Cards

Virgin Mobile

Globes [online] is reporting that Virgin Mobile UK will trial Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies ‘mobile content cards’ after the holidays. To download the content, users simply place the card up to their phone and press a button corresponding to the content they wish to download. The card then emits an acoustic tone which triggers the phone to download the desired content from Ki-Bi’s server.

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Jewel Quest Reviewed

Jewel
We finally review a non-Gameloft game

Here at QuicklyBored, we have a certain affinity for two types of games: A) anything with some decent T n� A and B) simplistic puzzle games autistic nomad orphans could master. The question here is whether we should credit games that are less original than Milly Vanilly.

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