Finding a good mobiel game is not easy. If you’re going through the carrier deck then you’re stuck just looking at titles and hoping for the best. To help, we’ve put together our current Top 10 Mobile Games and we’re hoping you spread the word to your friends and help give the industry a better name.
We’ll be updating our top 10 mobile games fairly often and we’ve created a sidebar section for it so you can check back to the site whenever you want and see what is worth downloading.
Click through for a breakdown of each game and why it made our “Top 10″ list
Greystripe has announced a deal wherein they will distribute games by publisher Digital Chocolate.
As part of the deal, Digital Chocolate will use Greystripe’s AdWRAP technology to deliver in-game advertising, before sending the games on to Greystripe’s 20 Catalog Platform partners and GameJump.com. Games to be distributed in this way are: Tower Bloxx, Café Solitaire, Johnny Crash, Mafia Wars Yakuza, Night Club Empire, and Rollercoaster Rush.
Continue reading ‘Greystripe and Digital Chocolate sign distribution deal’
Digital Chocolate announced the release a new social networking series of games called DChoc Café, reports Wireless Week.
Games in the series allow players to create personalized characters to experience the cafés. They can then form their own exclusive cafés and invite their friends, or visit the settings created by others. Bonus points, which are rewarded to players for playing well or for competing against other cafés, can be used to unlock bonus items. The first five games in the series are DChoc Café Sudoku, DChoc Café Kakuro, DChoc Café Hold’em Poker, DChoc Café Mahjong and DChoc Café Solitaire.
“The introduction of the DChoc Café Series combines the trend of casual games with a community environment that promotes social interaction,” said Trip Hawkins, founder and CEO of Digital Chocolate. “The DChoc Café Series demonstrates the promise of mobile games: socially driven entertainment that allows players to stay connected with friends while playing fun, casual games.”
The games are available now on 3, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Digital Chocolate has stated that they expected 100 carriers worldwide to carry the game.
Digital Chocolate has announced their intention to publish games for the upcoming N-Gage platform from Nokia, reports the Mobile Games Blog.
The announcement comes after a long period of silence regarding any any publishers for the new gaming platform. Gregg Sauter, Nokia’s director of third party publishing, called Digital Chocolate a “perfect fit” for the N-Gage, saying that they have been “a driving force in promoting social interaction within the context of mobile gaming.” Digital Chocolate will be bringing DChoc Café to the platform, amongst other games.
“DChoc Café is a perfect complement to the Nokia’s next generation N-Gage platform,” said Gary Schofield, president of networks at Digital Chocolate. “N-Gage provides the tools we need to tap into the powerful device performance and promote social interaction between players through games, which is completely in line with Digital Chocolate’s philosophy. We’re very pleased to be teaming up with Nokia.”
Digital Chocolate has signed a deal with Korean electronics company LG to pre-load games on to the latter’s mobile phones, reports MobileIndustry.biz.
“This partnership provides Digital Chocolate the opportunity to market our games to LG’s extensive consumer base, allowing us to cast a wider net in the marketplace,” said Trip Hawkins, founder and CEO of Digital Chocolate. “LG’s reputation for quality and innovation makes them an ideal partner for Digital Chocolate to significantly broaden and enhance our reach.”
There have been no specific titles announced, but the partnership starts this month, with co-marketing to follow.
We’ve been getting great feedback for the constant stream of GDC Video that’s been flowing through QB lately, so we thought we’d tie it all together into a nice neat little package for you. Contained within this special video podcast are highlights from our previous videos, as well as a couple new treats that you haven’t seen yet. Enjoy!
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Stuart Dredge of Pocketgamer discusses how publishers are now checking out Nokia’s N-Gage platform at a “secret workshop”. The N-Gage, which is a mobile telephone and handheld game system based on the Nokia Series 60 platform, is to be incorporated into “Smart Phones” from Nokia and released this year, and the article reports that “behind the scenes, activity is ramping up, following a top-secret workshop for publishers and developers, held in Santa Monica last week”.
Continue reading ‘Interest ramping up for N-Gage phones?’
Trip Hawkins, founder of EA Games and Digital Chocolate, will be delivering the keynote speech at the upcoming Games Developer Conference’s Mobile program this March in San Francisco. According to MobileIndustry.biz, Hawkins will be speaking to the topic of making mobile phones the ultimate game platform and will share thoughts on both potentials for the market as well as the obstacles. “I am thrilled to have Trip Hawkins, a game industry legend, kick-off GDC Mobile with such an important topic of discussion,” said Robert Tercek, chairman of GDC Mobile.
Trip Hawkins is interviewed over at Game Tycoon today, and the Digital Chocolate CEO has all sorts of things to say. As the founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO, Hawkins is no stranger to the world of games and the industry around it.
Continue reading ‘Game Tycoon interviews Trip Hawkins’
You can always trust the Mobile Games Blog to provide you with some inside dirt on the industry; you can always trust QuicklyBored to continue our love affair with Trip Hawkins.
Recently, Digital Chocolate announced the development of a game based around HBO Hit, The Sopranos, which is a little odd considering Trip and DC’s reputation of avoiding mobile licenses at all costs. Apparently, Arjan at the Mobile Games Blog thought it was odd as well, and called Trip on it. Check out his response after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Trip Hawkins is going to show us how to make licensed games’
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