Video Game Buttons Blog

May 9, 2007

Sony Pictures Television has announced a list of mobile games to be released in 2007, which features God of War: Betrayal, Spider-Man 3, Spider-Man Puzzle, Jeopardy! 2007, Jump That Car, and Snoop Dogg Cruisin’.

 

God of War: Betrayal takes place after the events of God of War. Humans and gods mistakenly accuse Kratos of betraying the Olympians, and Kratos must clear his name and win back the favor of Olympus. Featuring an original story from the writer of the console game, this title features interactive environments and a specialized 2D character animation engine, boasting “triple the number of frames per second versus recent competitive titles.”

 

Spider-Man 3 is a 2D side-scrolling game featuring combination moves and a destructible environment.  Spider-Man Puzzle is a casual mobile game in which the player matches three or more identical game pieces on a grid-shaped board in order to advance, score points and defeat evil villains. The game features story-driven elements.

 

Jeopardy! 2007 is a sequel to the original and features a newly designed interface.  Content is created by the actual writers of the TV show.  Players can win over 75 different virtual trophies and badges in five modes of play including single, against computer, and play against other contestants in daily tournaments.  Jeopardy! 2007 is a subscription game.

 

In Jump That Car, players pilot a buggy through environments filled with hills and valleys, taking jumps and trying to make landings. Power-ups can be collected and players can race alone, against a ghost buggy of their previous best time or play a crash mode, where the farthest crash-landing wins.

 

In Snoop Dogg Cruisin’ players must impress Snoop with hopping and tilting skills using customized low rider cars.

 

 

 

February 27, 2007

Officials from mobile phone company Nokia have announced that they and local telecommunications company Elisa will carry out a pilot of the new N-Gage mobile gaming service, which is set to run between February and mid 2007.  Nokia device owners are promised improved game quality, performance and a new intuitive games interface.

 

Previous reports regarding the N-Gage have revealed an array of major-publisher support for the networked service, which will allow digital downloading of custom cellphone games and a number of Xbox Live-style connectivity and community features. The service itself is due to launch in mid 2007.

 
Nokia’s N-Gage portable console/mobile phone hybrid was pretty much a bust - and a high-profile one too - but Nokia has long claimed that it will continue to target the games market, initially via a range of new N-Gage compatible mobile phone handsets, with more public information likely at March’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

 
Nokia reportedly hosted a secret two-day January workshop for publishers and developers, which was reports say was a chance for Nokia to unveil their new platform for the first time.

 

“The core of the Nokia games strategy is to make it easy for people to find, buy and play great quality mobile games and we’re excited to expand our relationship with Elisa to help make this possible,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, director, games, multimedia, Nokia. “This pilot will help us further refine the N-Gage experience for our commercial launch later this year.”