While the industry saw a “few early pioneers brave the location frontier”, with titles such as BotFighters, Mogi-Mogi, and Undercover 1, the technology and networks simply were not available to support mass market location based games (LBG). Now, the technology has been rolled out and network bandwidth has been increased. Why have we seen no real mass market LBG?

Kurt Uhlir, Chicago-based technologist and IGDA Mobile-SIG Chairperson, believes that innovation and a better understanding of location technologies and source material by game developers has been the barrier, but that wall is falling…

Tapwave has announced that it is no longer selling or supporting the Palm-OS based Zodiac.

Official company announcement
The argument can be made that the Zodiac simply tried to do to many things (similar to the claims around the N-Gage). However, Tapwave simply took too long to roll out this device and it simply could […]

From an article from July Edition of 3D World Magazine:

Two years ago, experts predicted that by 2005, 3D games on mobile devices would be everywhere. They were premature - yet recent stirrings suggest the sleeping giant is finally waking. The article includes quotes from Kurt Uhlir - IGDA Mobile-SIG Chair and Chicago-based technologist, Thor Gunnarsson […]

China’s mobile phone gaming market is forecasted to be worth RMB 5.8 billion (US$714 million) by 2008, increasing by seven times from its 2004 value, according to market research firm Analysys.

The mobile gaming market is projected to expand with the introduction of 3G mobile technology in China.

China’s has over 363 million mobile phone users, according to statistics released at the end of June by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII).

The rapid development of online gaming is also a driving factor leading to the rising popularity of mobile phone gaming.

London’s Sunday Telegraph and other sources recently reported that Electronic Arts was preparing a takeover bid of U.K.-based mobile games publisher Superscape. EA, who has made no bones about their desire to make a major splash in the mobile industry, was said to have been eyeing the company for some time. Interest was renewed after […]

YDreams pushes the envelope of mobile gaming with the release of their next generation Mobile MMOG and Location Based Game - Undercover 2: Merc Wars™. Not only that, but they have already picked up a TV show (in Portugal, the company’s home country) to cover game universe.

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