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And those who don't have video games, they have cell phones, soft drinks, and cat masks. Talk about being totally set. More »
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In "I Love Women's Body Climber", the premise is simple: climb up girls. The difficulty is based on what the female characters are (or are not) wearing. For example, it's harder to climb up bare skin than pull one's way up a sailor suit. More »
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Late last month, photos of a rumored PSP phone surfaced. The prototype looked like a Sony Ericsson cell phone mated with a PSP. Rumors, right? Know what they say, where there's smoke there's fire — with "they" being Sony. More »
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Singer Reina Tanaka was never a lighting rod for controversy. The twenty year-old is a member of the popular girl group Morning Musume. She has her own anime and a spin-off mobile phone game. That is, until she offended Koreans. More »
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A new Shenmue has been revealed. The game is headed to a Yahoo! Japan gaming site. Sega is not involved. But Shenmue's creator is. More »
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You might want to sit down. More »
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Getting in a quick hit of gaming on the bus or in the bathroom may seem like a good thing, but playing with your portable devices could be depriving your brain of important downtime needed to process memories. More »
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Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today reveals new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that address the legality of jailbreaking your Apple products, unlocking your cell phone, and bypassing computer game digital rights management systems. More »
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A report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project shows an increasing number of Americans using their mobile phones as personal computers, with substantial leaps in gaming, internet use, and other non-voice applications over the past year. More »
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Parasite Eve: The Third Birthday did not start its life out as a PSP title. Oh, no. It began its existence as a Japanese cell phone game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5565627&view=rss&microfeed=true Want to cover your cell phone in Slime? Dragon Quest Slime's smily face has been put on stickers designed specifically for cell phones. More »
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YouTube users vs. cell phone owners, FIGHT! Recently in geek paradise Akihabara, electronics giant Toshiba tested an interactive billboard game. More »
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Confession: I've never watched more than 5 minutes of Law & Order. But since I know most of the world is crazy-nutso for it, I feel it necessary to share the news on Law & Order: Celebrity Betrayal, a new game for cellphones coming soon for $6.99. With gameplay sounding a lot like Phoenix Wright (you collect clues at the crime scene, interview witnesses, and present clues during the proper moments of the trial) and a branding that, according to my mom's DVR, is pure crack—who knows? It could actually be decent...for a cellphone game. More »
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The next installment of Bioshock is closer than you think, but it's coming in straight-to-cellphone form. Developed by IG Fun, the studio behind titles like Rush Hour 3 (the game) and Playboy Pool, who can predict what delights that the company surely has in store for phone gamers? But we're guessing—mind you, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves here—that Bioshock Mobile won't quite capture the brilliant atmospherics of the original. But we'd LOVE to be proven wrong. (But we won't be.) More »
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Ever wanted to play the Game & Watch game Octopus on your cell phone? Probably not, but at least one Japanese electronics alchemist has, resulting in this fantastic cellphone mod that not only works as a phone, but as a classic LCD diversion as well. Not only fun and functional, the device folds up nicely and triples as a total pussy magnet. Chicks absolutely dig Game & Watch enthusiasts. Look it up. More »
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THQ is teaming up with Playboy for a series of new mobile games, and their first en devour will be Playboy Games: Pool Party. While many would think that a system like the Nintendo DS could better capture both of a Playmates' best features, hardcore cellphone gamers across the world will get to play non-nude "pool party sports"—hosted by Love Connection alum Chuck Woolery—including water balloon fights, waterslide slaloms and aquatic mechanical bull riding. More »
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Peripheral company Zeetoo is coming up with a Nunchuk-like device for cell phones. The Zeemote, that's really what it's called, no lie, will connect to select cell phones using Bluetooth. The controller has an analog stick and buttons in a Nunchuk-shaped device. The company says they also have a motion-sensing version of the controller in the works and another prototype that will have a tracker ball. More »
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For those of you who don't follow the gadget world as closely as my alter ego who writes for Gizmodo, there have long been rumors of a Google Phone (as in cellphone) hitting the market and revolutionizing life as we know it. Today the Google Phone was officially announced, not as one particular phone, but as a software platform (like Palm or Windows Mobile) that will run on Sprint and T-Mobile phones produced by big companies like LG, HTC, Motorola and Samsung when launched in 2008. So why should gamers care? More »
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Nokia is just pumping out the N-Gage news lately, trying desperately to get people to stop thinking taco and start thinking global gaming service. They've just announced that the N-Gage service will be available all over the world this November, first in the form of an application that can be downloaded and installed in compatible devices and later embedded in Nokia mobile gizmos right out of the box. New games revealed include EA's Fifa 08, The Sims 2 Pets, Tetris, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour, as well as Crash Bandicoot from Vivendi and whatever Capcom has up their sleeve. N-Gage.com has been relaunched with a focus on the new service as well, along with a link in the upper right to reserve your player name, which will be the N-Gage version of a gamertag. I've already reserved Fahey, despite the chances of me ever having a compatible phone being close to nil. Can't have just any jerk playing under the family name. Just one specific jerk. Hit the jump for more details than would fit before the jump. More »
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If it's good enough for the Wii, it must be good enough for mobile phones! Yesterday, Japan's biggest cell phone operator NTT DoCoMo introduced a new handset outfitted with a motion sensor. Created by Mitsubishi, the D904i lets you swing it around like the Wii-mote to play tennis or sword fighting games. Motion controls for cell phones sound utterly impractical considering how the screen and the controller are connected. Plus, seeing how most people in Japan play cell phone games on the train, would anyone actually play this way in public? Remember: This marks the second Mitsubishi phone that has been "inspired" by Nintendo. Bout time they got their own ideas, no? Brian Ashcraft More »
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Fourteen contestants. One winner. MaxGames, Malaysia's leading mobile game publisher, held a mobile gaming tournament. The winner was crowned Miss MaxGames 2007 and signed a year contract to head up the company's all-female all-mobile gaming team for 15,000 Malaysian Ringgits (US $4,340). Oh and as a gaming non-sequitur, they also gave her a PLAYSTATION 3. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Pocketgamer (via GameSetWatch) has a look at bad translations in mobile gaming. While bad localization in console titles is pretty much a thing of the past, the same isn't true for cell phone ones thanks to low budgets. Take this line from Magnetic Joe: More »
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Where the hell was I when Porn Manager 1 came out? Oh. Right. Not playing mobile phone games. Fortunately, I was around today when HandyGames announced the sequel to the hugely successful mobile game JeuxVideo called the "management game with a lot of various aspects." More »
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Japan's NTT Docomo unveiled a horde of new handsets, including this white dual screen clamshell from Mitsubishi. Jumping on the "Touching is Good" bandwagon, the bottom screen is a *surprise* touch screen (sound familiar?). With The Land of the Rising Sun gobbling DS Lites as soon as they hit store shelves, can't blame Mitsubishi for skiing in Nintendo's wake. What else, the cellie's a FOMA branded mobile, which means that it definitely doubles as a video phone as well, but probably not a music player. And the name of this product? Why, it's the D800iDS. Brian Ashcraft More »
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John Carmack, the man that brought us Doom, is now bringing us a cell phone game Orcs and Elves and possibly a DS version of, well, Orcs and Elves. The game is an old style RPG. Carmack tells Wired's Chris Kohler: More »
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The future of gaming? Mobile games company honcho David Gosen says it is, brace yerself, mobile phones. A quote from the man: More »
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The heart of the PLAYSTATION 3? A suped-up Cell processor developed by Toshiba, IBM and Sony. A single chip contains a main processor and eight sub-processors to unleash 200G Flops (floating point operations per second) of power. And now Toshiba plans to put that chip in mobile devices. More »
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Enough about Nintendo More »
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Not sure about you, but my DS Lite's battery is an energy camel. I can go days without charging the portable. So all these DS extra batteries that keep popping up seem pointless. Though, this iPod-looking thingy is not just for the DS per se. It also provides extra juice for Japanese cell phones and PCs, actually making it a tempting investment. Brian Ashcraft More »
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When Electronic Arts shelled out US $680 million for Jamdat Mobile, the gaming giant put money were its mouth was and showed how important cell phone gaming is. EA confirmed that titles like Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Spore are in the pipeline. Out of all those titles, Spore seems like the best bet. It's casual if need be, but a title that could be played longer. Perfect for quick waits at the bus stop and longer ones at the doctor's office. And that is exactly what mobile gaming should be. Brian Ashcraft More »
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My ringtone might be the Lupin The Third theme, but chances are yours ain't. If the Billboard Hot Ringtones ranking is any indication, it's probably Koji Kondo's Super Mario Brothers Theme, which is standing tall at #1. The song's been on the charts for a whopping 87 weeks, beating out Henry Mancini's The Pink Panther Theme. Anyone out there in Kotakuland got gaming ringtones? Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=181180&view=rss&microfeed=true Thanks to Ruben to pointing us towards this video of the upcoming Nokia fighting game One The video claim that this is real-time rendering on a mobile phone, and the designers are also promising the ability to customize characters with accessories and texture mappings... possibly microcontent. We're as excited as anyone else to see some great graphics finally come to mobile phones, but the issue with mobile games isn't graphics: it's absolutely terrible controls. Until a company can figure out how to get over that hump, we'd rather carry a DS Lite around for our portable gaming. - Florian Eckhardt More »
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Do you need any more proof that id software is utterly bankrupt of imagination than the fact that their first new intellectual property since 1996's Quake is a game called Orcs and Elves? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=174960&view=rss&microfeed=true Tokyo game maker Frontier Groove has made its underwater 3D aquarium game AQUAZONE for computer gamers and cell phoners. And now add the 360 to that list. The console version boasts 14 type of fish, including that one from Finding Nemo. Think of it as your own personal HD fish thank, but without minus the algae scrubbing. —Brian Ashcraft More »
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Gameloft is bringing Tetsuya Mizuguchi's dazzling puzzler Lumines to cell phones. The game will include 11 skins/musical tracks from the likes of Mondo Grosso and Andy Hunter. There are a total of six game modes, including an all new arcade mode that was designed specifically for mobile play. It's no longer just squares as additional shapes are present, as well as a third color. New ideas and innovation, the game is more of a sequel than the upcoming PSP version. Even if it sounds kinda like Tetris, but with better music. More »
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Earlier this week, we reported on the slew of Brain Age knock-offs headed our way. Barry O'Neill, CEO of the Dublin-based Upstart Games, emailed us to let us know his company had been "sitting on" a cell phone brain game that predates Brain Age by about two years. Originally called Right Brain Paradise, the game was released by G-mode in Japan. Upstart's English version is titled IQ Academy and will be on in major US and European carries this July. We sent questions to Mr. O'Neill, regarding the upcoming title, the brain game craze and skiing in Nintendo's wake. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=169363&view=rss&microfeed=true Over the weekend, MTV's Stephen Totilo checked out the "Mobile Game Mosh" at New York's Parsons School of Design. The Glu Mobile and Atari-sponsored design contest challenged college and grad students to churn out a Nokia compatible cell phone game in 24 hours. Contracts, Totilo reports, signed by the participants forfitted game rights to Atari and Glu Mobile. Yuck. More »
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I've reached my limit. Two cybersex posts a day are all I can handle. Before I disinfect my eyes, here's a quickie on College Girls, a hackneyed game in which you wonder around your university dorm and learn "the secrets of sex." Uh, riiight. The game was launched last summer for Russia, where the game was a smash with over 10,000 downloads every month. The game has been localized into English, Polish and Czech, because the good Lawd knows how we love our Russian produced, cheesy-assed cell phone based sex games. "The key factors ensuring the success of College Girls are everlasting demand for adult content and exciting gameplay of the application," says Robert Mueller, the company's General Sales Manager. "Personally, I am still having a lot of fun playing this game." Nope, not gonna touch that quote. More »
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The BBC brings us news that Microsoft is "very, very near" to interfacing the Live gaming experience with players' mobile phones: gamers will be able to receive alerts that their buddies are online, and waiting... More »
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