MobileJava Games: the Growing Trend by Judith Earl
Mobile phones are today being considered as an entertainment device to play music, take pictures and play games, more than anything else. Mobile Java games are becoming a new trend in the world’s fastest growing wireless business. With the coming of 3Gtechnology, graphics have become richer and... Java improves the ability of mobile phones to support mobile phone games and allows far better control over interface of sms mobile phone games. ... Compared to java games, SMS mobile games are played by sending a message to the phone number that corresponds to the game provider’s server, which...

J2ME Developers and Programmers: The Mobile Game Industry Winners by Chris Palau
If you think that current gaming technology is hot then, as they say, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Wireless or mobile gaming is the future and the future is now. 2004 saw an explosion in mobile gaming technology which redefined the mobile phone as a gaming device. ... BREW’s claim to fame is that fact that the developer can write device-independent applications which do not need to be recompiled for different phone manufacturers. ... According to industry analysts Frost & Sullivan, the “global mobile game industry, which generated US$436.4 million in 2002, will balloon to US$9.34 billion...

Online Flower Deliveries by Ken Marlborough
Online gaming, i.e. games played over the Internet, originally started with PC games and now includes the latest modern consoles. The first console in the arcade game world was the Sega Dreamcast. The console is now essential to modern arcade games, with the advent of Internet connectivity in... A first-person shooter (FPS) game is a combat game on PC or video, characterized by the player’s on-screen view of the game simulating that of the character. ... A MMORPG is an online computer role-playing game in which a large number of players can interact with or against one another in the same...

Motorola Cell Phone Gaming One-Ups Pocket PC by Damian Julien
If your Pocket PC RPG game forays need to be buttressed by Motorola cell phone gaming, read on. TechNewsWorld broke the scoop on an exciting union that bodes well for Motorola cell phone gamers . Chinese gaming company Shanda Interactive and Motorola have just signed the ink on a partnership. ... This will have to be in reference to future upcoming Motorola cell phone game releases from Shanda as I'm still yet to encounter a six year old capable of role playing game comprehension. ... Figures from the same article suggest a mobile game scene in China reaching a lofty US$714 million by 2008.

PSP Accessory - Blueye It Will Answer For You! by J. Lloyd
Besides many accessories that PSP has acquired, once in awhile there is one that gets more and more interest from people. It is Blueye. You can now take your calls without missing a strike. In fact, it almost turns your portable audio supply into a Bluetooth headset and is a great PSP accessory. ... In fact, whatever you need to build Blueye into your own world and allow the mobile phone to become your personal remote control. ... With a talk time of 10 hours, your mobile phone will power out before Blueye does.

Xbox Catching Up in 2006 by Chris Robertson
Although there was a delay in delivering the number of Xbox 360s that consumers demanded for the 2005 holiday season, Microsoft is expected to manufacture over 2 million of the gaming consoles in the first quarter of 2006. It's estimated that about 1 million Xbox 360s made it to stores in time... For example, Firefly Mobile will be honored for their "Mobile Phone for Mobile Kids," which is specifically designed for tweens. ... Psychonauts is a hit, and for the role-playing crowd, Jade Empire is the video game du jour for the Xbox.

Patched PS3 Games? by Carver Tate
If Square Enix follows through initial reports and statements of patching and in-game advertisements, gamers might just see a game character using a too-real mobile phone or eating a burger. Yoichi Wada, Square Enix's main man, announced the company's new PS3 games development program. ... This move actually benefits gamers as Wada talked about a system of game distribution where gamers download the game's first chapter and buy later installments. ... Game purists, myself included, certainly do not want golden arches or a big, red can of soda interfering with our game by filling our minds...

Evolution Of Mobile Gaming Industry by Abhinav Vaid
From the time in memorial, the earliest games were anything but flexible and responsive. In fact, they were based on fixed algos with extremely limited options. Its been a couple of years, when the Desktop PC’s had started penetrating/entering Indian customers. ... The later also was inviting game developers to contribute to the same but the involvement/contribution was very less. ... Along with Mobile Games, the new generation of PlayStation and Xbox are aspiring to get launched soon. ... The games based on AI (Artificial Intelligence) would obviously adapt and learn in response to the...

So You Want to be a Games Developer? by David Bolton
In the good old days, back when the Internet had about 10 users and the web was a far off vision, PCs were called Home Computers and anyone could learn to write computer games. Three of us set up in business to write and sell our own games for the ZX Spectrum (Aka Timex/Sinclair) and Commodore 64. ... Unlike the console world, Software Development Kits (SDKS) are available for free from mobile phone manufacturers. ... Mobile Phone and PDA games. ... It is quite a tough business – when a game is under development, you’ll live breathe and eat it for 18 months-two years.

The 240x240 Dilema by Steve Bralovich
Today, many Pocket PC phones have 240x240 resolution because Windows Mobile 5.0 doesn't support 320x320 resolution and the next square screen resolution supported is 480x480. However, when it comes to prices of touch screens, the screens with 480x480 are too expensive. ... So Pocket PC phone manufacturers, who wanted to use square resolution in order to accommodate a QWERTY keyboard, were forced into 240x240. ... Developers have begun to rework existing games and applications to work on square screen devices but a convenient list of what's currently available is a little difficult to come by.