It was a nice idea, hampered slightly by the fact that games had to be rewritten to add support for the thing. Now Nokia has decided to embrace the ZeeMote by releasing downloadable software to let the controller work with almost any S60 app or N-Gage game.

The ZeeKey app is available for free download from the Nokia website and the mobile manufacturer has promised to bundle the app with selected handsets (presumably its more entertainment focused N-Series models).

Zeekey app for Zeemote available for Nokia phones [Pocket Lint]

PSP Phone Mod [cngba via Just Another Mobile Blog via Gizmodo]

FINAL FANTASY XIII（PS3）Trailer
FINAL FANTASY Versus XIII（PS3）Trailer
FINAL FANTASY Agito XIII（Mobile）Trailer
KINGDOM HEARTS Coded（Mobile）Trailer
KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days（DS）Trailer/Playable Demo
KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep（PSP）Trailer/Playable Demo
DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY（PSP）Trailer/Playable Demo
The 3rd Birthday（Mobile）Trailer
Sigma Harmonics（DS）Trailer/Playable Demo
FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE（Movie／Blu-ray）Trailer

Best part? Knowing how Square Enix rolls, photograph of the demo trailers will be strictly prohibited, and the trailers for the big titles will mostly likely be shown in "closed theaters." So! If you want to see them, be prepared to wait in line for like an hour. Make sure you bring your memory cap so you don't forget the experience! Does Square Enix know how to party or does Square Enix know how to party.

Square Enix Party Info [Famitsu]

Sony Ericsson F305 is for fun and games [USEB, via Gizmodo]

Yay, more Sony phone talk, and this time without even mentioning the word "PlayStation"! According to Pocket-Lint, Sony Ericsson have signed a deal with GestureTek, whose motion-sensing software powers stuff like the EyeToy. The deal will have a similar version of said software running on Sony Ericsson phones around September, and via the handset's cameras, will allow the phones to play motion-sensitive games. Two titles currently mooted to appear for the new capabilities are a Super Monkey Ball game and a Crash Bandicoot title (pictured). Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to increase the probability of a PlayStation Phone being announced later this year up a few percentage points.

Sony Ericsson to launch new gaming phone range [Pocket-Lint, via Gizmodo]

A few minutes later I received a reply: "At 3:30 a black car will arrive to your house to pick you up. The mission should take no longer than three hours." Three hours, eh? What the hell, I went ahead and cleared my schedule for the afternoon and got ready to embark.

At 3:30 on the dot I went outside and lo and behold, there was a black car with a card with my name on it in the window. Not only was the car out there at the assigned time, but they had managed to get a parking spot right in front of my house. If you know anything about parking in San Francisco, you'll know that this is no mean feat, especially in the Mission. My driver was waiting by the car and told me he would be taking me to my destination as he opened the door for me to get in. I looked and made sure the door locks hadn't been sawed of and got in.

We drove all the way across town and eventually ended up at Fort Mason Center out by the water. If you've ever seen the movie Copy Cat you'll have an idea of where this is. We drove over by the firehouse and the car stopped. The driver told me to go get the information case and return to the car. As I got out, I saw a large metal briefcase type deal sitting in the middle of the pavement. I got out and grabbed it and returned to the car. Inside was a postcard of Coit Tower and instructions to direct the driver to take me there.

Once we were on our way to Coit Tower, the driver received a phone call and then informed me that he had new orders and a new destination for us. What else could I do but say yes? Didn't seem like I had too much of a choice. So I sat and watched the city slide by the windows as we passed Pier 39 and wound our way through The Embarcadero. We finally arrived in a very warehouse-y area down by Third Street and Twentieth where the driver told me it was time to get out of the car. We had reached the final destination.

I took my case, got out of the are and was greeted by a fellow who welcomed me to the assignment and asked if i had any idea what this was all about. I admitted that I didn't but that I had some ideas. We walked into a nearby warehouse and started making our way up the service elevator and through the halls towards the final reveal.

We arrived in front of a door which was opened for me and I entered wondering what I would find. As some of you speculated in the comments of my previous articles, the whole thing turned out to be for... the new Bourne Conspiracy game. Three of the developers from High Moon Studios were there to discuss the project with me and show me a little bit of what it was all about. Unfortunately I can't say much about what I saw as the information is under embargo until the 28th. But I can tell you that I liked what I saw and that The Bourne Conspiracy isn't your run of the mill action game. I saw four different areas covering the various game mechanics including a driving level.

Once my talk with the guys form High Moon was finished, I was escorted back to the front of the place where my driver was waiting for me. I was giving a digital voice recorder that contained my entire interview with the developers (had I known I wouldn't have taken all those notes!) and the case was given back to me although it was slightly heavier than before.

As we drove away, I opened the case to find a ton of swag including a mini-backpack (you can never have too many bags) a flashlight, a 2gig USB drive hidden in a black rubber bracelet, a Sony MP3 player containing some of the music from the game, a game fact sheet/booklet and of course the case itself which looks like it would comfortably fit an Xbox 360. Also included was what I thought to be the most clever addition, a dossier on me that included my name, known associates and habits. It was odd some of the things they knew about me, but then again, on the internet your life is an open book. Attached to the dossier was four large black and whit photos, two of me coming out of my house to meet the car and another two of me picking up the case at Fort Mason Center. It was really quite the clever and ingenious marketing ploy and I must admit that I, like many of you, was completely sucked in.

All in all it was not a terrible way to spend a Tuesday afternoon and I was told that even more would be revealed to me today at Sierra's Editor's Day here in SF. Again, everything I see will be embargoed until the 28th, but judging from the line-up, there will be plenty to talk about when that day finally rolls around.

I hope you've enjoyed unraveling this little mystery with along me. Agent De Marco over and out.

A driver has been assigned to escort you to dead drop point. Confirm pick up name for driver. Standby on April 8 at 1700 for pick up.

A driver? At 5pm on April 8? Hmmm. I'm not really one to just get into car sent by a stranger, but I am dedicated to finding out what this is all about. Seeing as I have documented this entire experience for all to see, if I end up dead in a gutter it shouldn't be too hard to figure out who did it. Please just have "He took one for the team" engraved on my tombstone.

Your cellphone rings, and a detective calls you to the scene — just like a real CSI detective. This combination of game play with popular content and a whole new level of interactivity represent enormous entertainment and business potential for the mobile world.

It sounds like a pretty cool gimmick actually and leaves me wondering if this might tie in somehow with the mysterious cell phone I received yesterday...

"Accommodation address secured. Mission Accepted. Standby on March 24 for further instructions. Date of final mission: April 8."

Seeing as none of the other staff members got one, I'm hoping this isn't some sort of bomb sent by a rival blog to take me out, but I must say I'm rather intrigued. Chances are it's for a cell phone game, but I'm crossing my fingers that it's going to be something really cool. Anyone care to speculate?

I'm not scared about anybody. The real question is how do they [Sony Ericsson] do it? Can they create a link between the PSP games and a phone? Can they do the multiplayer and online stuff? We've been doing this for two years and it hasn't been easy.

If a PSPhone does exist, this mock-up is one of the better ones we've seen. The scan, courtesy of NeoGAF member metalmurphy, is clearly labeled as fiction, with the article estimating that such a product has a 35% chance of coming to market. Pretty, yes, but maybe we're just distracted by the Millenium Falcon. A PlayStation Phone, while not a terrible idea, won't be replacing my iPhone any time soon.

Sony Ericsson PSPhone [NeoGAF]

A new PSP-style phone is apparently in development. There are even suggestions that it could be in shops as early as February.

Sony Magazine Says PSP Phone Could Come As Early As February? Really? [Gizmodo]

...it's a replacement for someone who had a Razr before. They still want their content but there's no distribution platform in place so there's a negative impact on the industry... These devices are capable and powerful. They'll be great in the long term but it will take some time as people adapt to devices.

Make the jump to check out a small gallery of screens.

[Thanks, ryuzaki]

Ryan curiously says "PlayStation almost enjoys cult status" amongst the 200 million-plus who have purchase PlayStation consoles, envisioning a product that is primarily a gaming device and secondarily a phone.

Sony to introduce Playstation phone [Economic Times via CVG]

The 34 members of the Open Handset Alliance will be helping to develop this important software—one of whom is NVIDIA, the same company who makes up the yin of ATI's yang in providing 3D bliss to gamers on different platforms around the world. This partnership by no means implies that the Google Phone will be a gaming machine ala N-Gage, but that Google is taking the right early steps to support the potential of some pretty gaming on their newest endeavor. So now you know.

GPhone is Official - A Software Platform For Cellphones [gizmodo]

After some trial and error, he was eventually able to host a Halloween Halo 3 LAN party at his house with ten Xbox 360s all run through his cell phone's internet connection. I don't pretend to understand all the technical aspects of this amazing feat, so if you wish to learn more, go check out D15AV0W3D's explanation with a little how to guide so you can do this yourself. Ah, the marvels of the modern age...

HowTo: Play on XBOX Live thru your Windows Mobile cell phone [The Hushed Casket]

You will play as a member of SAS and US Marine forces who must figure out the source of an ultra-nationalist uprising in the Middle East. Use authentic weapons such as rocket launchers and assault rifles to help your squad achieve success. Chaos and destruction will pave your path!

If you want to try before you buy, a free demo version is available on developer Glu Mobile's website.

Call of Duty 4 Mobile [Glu.com]

Of course, all these phones means a huge market for cell phone games. Almost every booth I went into at TGS had some sort of cell phone game in it and in most cases five or six. Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and Square Enix all had multiple mobile games attached to them. There were also booths dedicated solely to cell phone games and nothing else. It was a strange phenomenon and something I haven't seen at any other convention I've been to this year. It will be interesting to see if the cell phone games thing catches on in the U.S. the way it has here in Japan. Do you think there is a viable market for this sort of thing and would you buy an MGS or RE phone game if it was made available to you?

Mobile Phone Games [Japan Probe]

Monday: Link's special moves, including the clawshot, boomerang and bombs, are profiled.
Tuesday: A new video featuring the Subspace Army (and R.O.B.!) is added.
Wednesday: Newcomer Diddy Kong is added to the roster.
Thursday: Yoshi's Final Smash show's the dragon sporting wings and K.K. Slider's theme song arrives for your listening pleasure.
Friday: Petey Piranha, the boss from the Subspace Army clip gets a proper run down.

There's no doubt in my mind that we will be playing more games on mobile devices. What those mobile devices will be, and what they're capable of is still very much up for grabs.

They're changing as fast as the early computer games industry changed, if not faster. My one wish for that is that mobile phones were made with some sympathy for games to be played on them, because they're not, and that must be immensely frustrating for people developing for them.

It's down to some very simple things - these clicky buttons are useless for playing games, and it's down to some other stuff, display drivers and hardware chips obviously. But even if you had simple buttons that would help a lot...

It's just very clunky at the moment, and every time I try and play a mobile game I end up wanting a PSP, or DS.

Well now, this is really interesting and right in my own back yard too.

The Denver Police Department recently conducted a study of racial bias in the force with the help of a flash-based computer game. The general idea was to determine if officers were more likely to fire on armed people who were black or white.

The game is really just a series of slides that show real Denver backdrops and then pop a white or black person up on the picture armed with either a gun or perhaps a cell phone or, I don't know, a can of soda.

The game gives you five points for holstering your gun on an unarmed man, 10 for shooting an armed man, subtracts 20 for shooting an unarmed man and subtracts 40 for being shot.

The study's results, and a link to the game, can be found over on the Water Cooler Games site. What I don't understand is why the police department didn't use their shoot/don't shoot training software for this instead. The software runs in a darkened room and uses a gun that feels like a real gun. Not only do you have to make the decision on whether not to shoot, you have to hit the person. I actually had a chance to check this out years ago and did quite well until I got to a scenario where a man was holding a child hostage. Kinda hard to make decisions like that on the fly. Brian Crecente

Denver Police Test Racial Bias with Videogame [Water Cooler Games]

Unfortunately for him, his phone message was pieced together from snippits of one of his favorite web programs, Red VS. Blue.

Starting last Wednesday he began receiving calls to his cell he didn't recognize. First a couple...then dozens...and now hundreds of phone calls from fans trying to decipher a secret message that doesn't exist. Messages posted to official and non-official forums alike stating that he is not part of the game have gone largely unheeded.

Luckily VanderZand is a big Halo fan with a healthy sense of humor, so he is taking the whole thing in stride, even going as far as to voice his disappointment over folks that don't talk to him when he actually answers the phone.

I even replied in a monotone voice "Are you calling about the Halo ARG?" and still some just hung up! How do you expect to get anywhere if you don't even have the balls to respond?

Once the system gets rolled out in the UK, British Telecom plans on licensing the software to other telecom companies in 100 other countries.

Nice to see the PSP gaining the additional functionality. Not sure I would ever see a reason to use it, but that's exactly the thing you're likely to say before finding yourself trapped in a cave-in with only a PSP and a BT wireless access point nearby. Look for more details to emerge at August's Leipzig event. Michael Fahey

Sony handheld to offer net calls
[BBC - Thanks Youlikeyams?]

If you ever wanted to watch two digital girls pillow fight each other's clothes off on your cell phone, now is your chance. This month, I-Play is releasing their newest game, Pillow Fight , on to a phone near you.

You can choose a fighter and her opponent as well as their saucy outfits and then let em rip! You can boost up your pillow power by winning matches which will allow you to add more feathers or filling to your fluffy weapon. Bigger pillows mean stronger impact and thus more wins for you. Winning matches will also allow you to customize your Cheerleader or French maid's costumes.

There is also an I-Play Lounge where players can compete against other users and post their high scores. and receive "downloadable rewards." One can only imagine what these rewards will be, but I'm sure they will be Sex-ay! Flynn De Marco

Pillowfight: the new mobile game from I-play [Gadget Candy]
[via Gizmodude]

Like most big action movies, the fourth Die Hard film, called Live Free or Die Hard, will see a game version — A mobile game version. The motion picture's plot centers around a plot to take down America's computer infrastructure that will threaten the country's economy. It's up to John McClane, who is neither a computer expert nor an economist, to save the day. (And since star Bruce Willis is now really, really old, the movie should be really, really exciting.) French mobile publisher Gameloft snagged the exclusive movie rights, and the game will have players take on the role of John McClane. There are 13 levels that include fight, car chases and mini-puzzle games. Just like in the movie! Brian Ashcraft

Bruno's New Movie Gets Phone Game [Reuters]

Going to the pub? Snogging in public?! If you're a foreign exchange student, stuff like that can be new, exciting, different — But mostly exciting. Says University of Portsmouth games expert Nipan Maniar:

I found some aspects of British culture very novel, and certainly things such as interacting socially with others, say, in a pub were very different to what I was used to in my own culture in India.

So Nipan decided to help. He developed a cell phone game designed to help international students find their bearings in the UK. The game can also guide students through boring things like registrations and finding a bank. Necessary sure, but not nearly as interesting as boozing and making out. Brian Ashcraft

Mobile Game Teaches Students About British Culture [Games Blog]

Makes sense! Yesterday, we posted that DoCoMo was releasing Wii-like motion sensor cell phones. And today, we've got word that the first game for it will be *surprise* a Gundam game. Wow, just wow.

For ¥105 a month (US 88¢), players are, well, Gundam as they battle their way through various scenarios. When they encounter enemies, players must slash their phone "vigorously" like a weapon. The phone's camera works out real world angles and velocities, deciding whether or not the in-game robot has been killed. And the title of this wonder? You are Gundam. Go figure. Brian Ashcraft

Gundam Game [Digital World Tokyo]

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

New Wii-mote Phone [Reuters]

Raising children is easy. If I can do it — Better yet, if Crecente can do it, anyone can. Even Tiffany! Come On Baby, which is hitting UK cell phones soon-ish, is Cooking Mama, but with children and no knifes. The game stars buxom Tiffany, who has just started up her own nursery. Players must change diapers, feed babies and boiling milk to turn her nursery into a "five star baby motel." The game's publisher Ozura proclaims it is:

The world's first mobile infant game.

Well, congratulations. Have a cigar. Brian Ashcraft

New Mobile Games [The Guardian]

Description of new cell phone game:

The story is quite simple: Mobaria, the girlfriend of Mobario was kidnapped by the evil Pavo. You have to rescue Mobaria from Pavo's Castle, but you have to get there which is not easy. The land, the sky, the caves and even under the water are nasty enemies waiting for you. In Pavo's Castle, fireballs make your journey more difficult. And at the end you have to fight Pavo, who is really strong, you have to beat him 10 times, but take care with jumping on him.

Wait a second... I've played this game before! Back when it was called Super Mario Bros. Nintendo, you might want to call your lawyers. Brian Ashcraft

Mobario Game [Tech Digest]

Hunt for fake monkeys with integrated GPS. Bandai's Java-based Chimpan GPS for DoCoMo phones with satellite-navigation has players run the application and then physically search for the simian target. Players using phones without GPS log-in and act as assistants, apparently. That sounds boring! Game costs ¥315 (US $2.66) , but memories of wondering city streets looking for fake monkeys are priceless. Brian Ashcraft

Monkey Hunt Game [Digital World Tokyo]