Square Enix, Music World, and SONY announced the development of “Destiny’s Child Groove,” the first mobile dance game featuring Destiny’s Child.
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Apparently, the game will be a “Mail Play Game”, which I have never in my life heard of in a mobile game. Still, if anyone can get it right it’ll be Square Enix, famed for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest RPGs on consoles. The game will use micro transactions, where users can purchase Mobicoins for use in-game. The whole deal is coming out later this year in Japan, but there are no current plans for a US release.
Square Enix has announced a new round of games for their Kingdom Hearts series, including one title exclusive to mobile phones.
The game, titled Kingdom Hearts coded–yes, the coded is lowercase–is planned for a Japanese release only, with other countries to be determined later. The story takes place after the events of the original Kingdom Hearts. Jiminy Cricket returns to Disney Castle to organize his journal, and finds a mysterious message: “We must return to free them from their torment.” The story follows the King, Jiminiy Cricket and Sora as they try to trace down the origin of the message.
There’s no word yet on a release date for the game.
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”.
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If you’ve ever played Insaniquarium or Bejeweled, then you know the world deserves a taste of both of these games. PopCap Games will be taking its casual games titles to Japan under a new distribution deal inked with Square Enix. The games will be distributed though Square Enix’s online web portal.
For those of you following our coverage of the Mobile Games Conference, you will be interested to hear Daishiro Okada’s speech on marketing mobile games. The audio is posted by the folks at PodTech.net and can be listened to here or directly on their page here. PodTech’s photo coverage of the event is also worth seeing here.
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Mobile Game Conference Day 1 Keynote
9:11- Just getting started here. One of the conference chairs, Eric Goldberg, is introducing the conference as one for insiders. Playing up the industry speakers that we’ll see in the next two days as well as the metrics will get on the mobile industry.
9:13 - He’s turned it over to Matthew Bellows, another conference co-chair. Repeating what Eric said: that this is a conference for people in the industry who want to dig deeper. The purpose of the conference is to help change the industry from a ‘we exist’ into a valid and creative medium.
I’m not crazy about the idea of an RPG on a mobile phone, but Final Fantasy is such an amazing series that it can’t go wrong. Considering FF7 took me about 70-80 hours to complete, I’m going to have to buy a six-pack of new batteries for my phone if I’m going to get through a decent FF for mobile.
Recently, Kosei Ito has been heading up the mobile division of Square Enix, the producers of the Final Fantasy franchise. Square Enix is poised to make a big splash in the North American mobile game market with the upcoming releases of FF: Before Crisis.
Here at QuicklyBored we’re looking forward to the Mobile Games Conference. We’ll be taking notes for all the gamers who couldn’t attend and are just as excited as us to hear where this industry is going. There is a massive list of speakers for the conference and one of them is bound to mimic the QB motto: “Mobile gaming sucks. We’re here to help.”
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