Hudson Entertainment has announced the release of Bomberman Land: Battles, following the success of Super Bomberman.
Battles features 32 maps with branching paths to add a new twist to the classic Bomberman style of play. At the end of each level, players have a choice between three different paths. There are 15 power-ups for the character scattered among the numerous different branches that can be followed.
Magmic Games and Hudson Entertainment have announced a deal where some Hudson titles will be published on the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices.
The first game to make the move will be Hudson’s Super Bomberman, which will become available from Magmic’s website and their bplay.com service.
“Hudson Mobile has long been known for its outstanding mobile products, and we are very pleased to be partnering with them in bringing their titles to a previously untapped audience” said Nicholas Reichenbach, vice president of publishing for Magmic.
This showcases the current trend of smartphones becoming increasingly popular gaming devices.
Hudson Entertainment has announced the release of Kachinko, a mobile game based on the popular Japanese game Pachinko.
Pachinko is a cross between slots and pinball. Players of the game fire small balls into a case filled with pegs. The ball bounces between the pegs and, depending on where it falls, might reward the player with more balls. Kachinko expands the idea with a puzzle theme, using colored balls in a match-three style.
“Kachinko is another step in Hudson’s commitment to delivering fresh, new games to phones for all gamers to enjoy,†said John Greiner, President and CEO of Hudson Entertainment. “It’s a unique game that’s easy to pick up and continues to challenge even experienced players.â€
The game is available on BREW and Java enabled phones.
According to Arjan at the Mobile Games Blog, Hudson is preparing to release Kororinpa Marble Mania in Asia.
Konami’s Kororinpa Marble Mania is game for the Nintendo Wii that is huge hit with Asian gamers, and Arjan believes there’s no indication that the game will be leaving Asia. The puzzle game allows you to guide a marble through a wide variety of different 3D mazes. Players tilt the entire game world, and the ball moves accordingly, as if pulled by gravity. The Wii version of the game features 50 mazes and a multiplayer mode, but details on the mobile version are scarce.
Interestingly, the game makes full use of the Wiimote’s motion sensing. Could this be one of the first game to use motion sensing on a phone?
Hudson Entertainment has announced a plan to bring classic title Chew Man Fu to cell phones.
Originally released on the TurboGrafx-16 in 1990, Chew Man Fu is an action/puzzle game where players roll magic spheres around a game board. Players must match the spheres to tiles of their respective colors while avoiding enemies, in order to complete the level. Each sphere has unique properties, where one ball is better at breaking walls than others, and so forth.
The mobile version of the game has been updated with all new graphics and animation, as well as 50 news levels and enhanced music. It should be available within the next month.
The Rapid Evolution of the Mobile Game Publisher
If carriers are the tracks of the mobile games industry, then publishers are the train that drives the industry forward. However, the recent influx of big name companies onto the mobile scene (think EA and Microsoft), as well as the ever-fickle relationship between publishers and carriers, have put pure-play mobile-only game companies in a bit of a ‘kill or be killed’ position. With that in mind, we were eager to sit in and hear about what exactly The Rapid Evolution of the Mobile Game Publisher entails.
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