Free "Silverback" mobile phone game

Fauna & Flora International a Wildlife conservation charity has launched a free mobile game called Silverback.

"Silverback" mobile phone game is a fun way to learn about the challenges of gorilla conservation in a conflict zone.

It is easy and FREE to download. During the eight levels of the game, you will grow from a baby to an alpha-male silverback gorilla and face many challenges that real mountain gorillas face in DRC, Rwanda and Uganda.Don't forget to look at the game tips below!

Though it is free, donations from individuals are a crucial source of funding for Fauna & Flora Internation.

If you enjoy "Silverback" and would like to donate £5 or more to FFI, please click here.

EA Announce Two iPhone Games

EA has announced visually rich iPod versions of the hit Hasbro games Scrabble® (in North America only) and Yahtzee® which are now available for purchase from the iTunes Store.

Scrabble

Scrabble, under license from Hasbro in North America only, spells major f-u-n on your iPod! It includes flexible difficulty levels, a built-in word list, dynamic animations, scrolling and full-board views. Use the click-wheel to play alone, challenge the computer in your iPod, or enjoy pass n play with a friend. The game offers tips, like the "Best Word" feature which suggests the optimal word that can be formed with your tiles. Scrabble on the iPod is great fun for all – from wordplay mavens to new Scrabble players.

Yahtzee

Let the good times roll with Yahtzee on iPod! Vivid dice animations, easy score-keeping, multiple game modes, and simple click-wheel controls deliver classic Yahtzee fun. Fans can play solo, against a friend, or against the computer in their iPod. With unlockable difficulty levels, help menus and pop-up hints to explain the basics, Yahtzee on the iPod is perfect for novices as well as experienced players. Enjoy the iPod version of this wildly popular Hasbro family game!

Yahtzee is available worldwide through iTunes. Scrabble is available via iTunes in the United States and Canada only.

All iPod games are available for the iPod nano, iPod classic and fifth-generation iPod and can be sent as a gift using the iTunes gifting feature (www.itunes.com).

EA Announce 5 New Mobile Games

EA Mobile™ announced the availability of five new titles for mobile phones.

The Sims 2 Castaway

EA Mobile invites gamers to get lost on a remote island with The Sims Castaway as they create, customize and guide a Sim to explore, survive and thrive on an uncharted tropical paradise. Vividly rendered lagoons, jungles, beaches and hidden pirate treasures await fans. The goal: provide your Sim with food, make clothing and build shelter. The Sims 2 Castaway continues The Sims franchise tradition of community: avoid isolation and keep your Sim happy by communicating with other inhabitants. With easy, one-button controls to move your Sim and interact with others, The Sims 2 Castaway unveils rich worlds new to The Sims universe!

The Sims Pool

With The Sims Pool, you can customize your Sim characters, and then hit the pool hall to compete against other Sims in exciting 8 or 9-ball action. Pool fans and newcomers can perfect their skills and watch their popularity soar as they sink balls, execute impressive trick shots and pull off slick combos. Advanced pool physics and an easy one-button interface deliver exciting pool fun for everyone.

Monopoly Here & Now

Monopoly Here & Now, developed via the EA and Hasbro, Inc. alliance, updates the world popular board game with a modern twist, allowing players to buy and sell properties like Waikiki Beach, Fenway Park, and more. Using simple controls to roll the dice, move around the properties, and keep score, gamers can buy, sell, and trade as they strive to put the competition out of business to win it all. Offering solo competition against the phone or pass n play with friends, Monopoly Here & Now delivers great fun – anytime and anywhere.

Yahtzee Adventures

Tour the world with Yahtzee Adventures! Play this new version of the treasured Hasbro dice game on your phone. Travel the globe, meet new characters and challenge them to a game, roll the colorful dice and be the first to score a Yahtzee! Enjoy Classic, Duplicate, Rainbow and Battle modes. Pass n Play with your friends, or try your hand at a Yahtzee single-player adventure. Dynamic, exciting gameplay, easy controls, and automatic scorekeeping deliver terrific mobile entertainment for you, your friends and family

Merv Griffin’s Crosswords

Experience all of the fun and excitement of the popular TV show with Merv Griffin’s Crosswords – now mobile. Players can customize an avatar and choose to play in Timed Mode or Casual Mode. In Timed Mode, its a race against the clock to enter answers as fast as possible, with virtual cash and prizes at stake. Or play at leisure with no time limits or opponents in Casual Mode. Simple controls make it easy to buzz in to the board, answer the word hint and complete the Crossword. Merv Griffin’s Crosswords is great fun for all ages and skill levels!

For information on carrier availability and pricing, please visit http://www.eamobile.com/.

Nokia Announce Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

Nokia recently launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, a unique global competition with 70,000 Eur in prizes, designed to encourage development of innovative game concepts.

Sponsored by Nokia Publishing, the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge invites developers to submit mobile gaming concepts to help drive mobile gaming to the next level, relying on the advanced features and functionalities of N-Gage compatible devices, and Java- or Symbian-based Series 40 or S60 devices from Nokia.

The three most innovative game concepts will be offered Nokia Publishing pre-production contracts, targeting publication of their winning concept on the corresponding Nokia device platform. In addition, the first winner will be awarded 40,000 Eur, the second 20,000 Eur, and the third 10,000 Eur to enable the participant to further develop the concept.

Beginning immediately, developers wishing to compete for the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge can submit their game concepts online at http://developer.n-gage.com/innovation. Contestants are encouraged to enter more than one mobile gaming concept, with the winners to be selected by an external panel of mobile gaming industry experts on the criteria of innovation, fun, feasibility of execution, and market potential.

Gaming concept submissions will continue through August 20, 2008. The winners will be chosen by the external panel of judges and announced during a special award ceremony at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome, Italy, October 29-30, 2008.

Deadline for submission of all applications is August 20, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. GMT.

Further information on the registration process, including description of entries and eligibility requirements are available at http://developer.n-gage.com/innovation.

Nokia Announced N-Gage Launch

Nokia announced the global launch of the Nokia N-Gage mobile games service with more games, additional compatible devices, and an expanded online offering.

Millions of Nokia device owners can now find, try and buy high-quality made-for-mobile games directly from their mobile device. Players can also connect with one another through the N-Gage Arena community. They can meet friends, find others to play multiplayer games, discuss topics on the message boards and via live chat, and participate in tournaments and hosted events.
The N-Gage platform has exclusive titles that are among the most ambitious and graphically rich mobile games ever produced. From strategy and sport to arcade and action, games of all genres are being developed for N-Gage by leading games publishers.

These games will be followed closely by Tetris® and The Sims(TM) 2 Pets by EA Mobile; Block Breaker Deluxe and Dogz by Gameloft; and Snakes Subsonic, Space Impact: Kappa Base and Mile High Pinball by Nokia Publishing.

With the N-Gage application on their device, people can create a Friends List, send and receive private messages, and take part in instant messaging style chat. N-Gage Points can be earned for playing games and participating in community activities.

Moreover, the experience can take place via the N-Gage web portal on the PC. Here players can interact seamlessly with the N-Gage community or purchase new games and download them to their N-Gage compatible devices.

Today's N-Gage compatible devices include: Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, and Nokia N95 8GB.

To download the N-Gage application, visit http://www.n-gage.com/ on your mobile device or PC. New games, features and compatible devices will be added regularly. Games are expected to cost between six and ten euros - all of which are free to try before buying.

Charlies Angels Mobile Game !

Ojom has announced a Mobile Game of the classic TV series and now Movie trilogy Charlies Angels.

Game Overview

Play as all three Angels, each with their own unique combat style. Punch, kick and smash your way through 16 levels across four distinctive locations.

Fight the gang leaders, get rid of their henchmen and use any weapon you can lay your hands on to thwart their evil plans.

With jaw-dropping visuals and a pulsating sound-track you’ll soon find yourself lost in the grimy streets of New York, as you step slowly from the shadows and those two guards with their baseball bats patrolling the port will never know what hit them.

Main Features Of The Game

• Experience all the action of the hit movie Charlie’s Angels on your mobile as you smash your way through a multitude of levels across four distinctive locations


• Play as all three Angels, each with their own unique combat style


• Gather information to track down different crime lords and their henchmen before taking on the ultimate “Boss”


• Discover and master each Angel's special attack moves and utilise hidden weapons to defeat the gangsters

SWAT Elite Troops Mobile Game Launched

Vivendi has launched SWAT : Elite Troops on the Mobile.

Based on the popular SWAT PC franchise, S.W.A.T Elite Troops is the sequel to S.W.A.T Force, Spike TV VGA Winner "Wireless Game of the Year '06". Experience the intensity of the Special Weapons and Tactics Force!

Game Plot

Lead a team of 3 highly trained officers through 15 authentic crisis situations to safely rescue hostages.

Subdue and eliminate enemies using actual S.W.A.T combat tactics.

As S.W.A.T leader, it is up to you to lead your team through missions, and minimize hostage and enemy casualties.

To Download the Game Text "SWAT" to 88788.

Devil May Cry: Dante's Awakening - Mobile Game Review

Devil May Cry: Dante's Awakening Review

It’s an impressive 3D title based on the spooky console game of the same name. It’s got monsters, demons, and a suitably brooding hero by the name of Dante. What’s not to like?

Controlling Dante, with a choice of sword or guns, is kept simple and intuitive. Like the Resident Evil games, you choose a path in the game, allowing you to come back and replay to see the bits you missed. Best of all, it looks ravishing, and shows off your handset’s gaming capabilities perfectly.

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men : Mobile Game Review

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch might sound like accountants, but they’re actually grizzled mercenaries battling their way through a 2D platform game. As you progress, you switch between the two guys, as situations demand.

The game is great knockabout fun, with plenty of action, explosions and brain-testing puzzles. Experienced mobile gamers will have seen plenty like it before, though, and it’s not up to the standards of games like the Splinter Cell series. Still, if you’re partial to a spot of jump’n’blasting, you could do far worse than this.

Fifa 07 Mobile Game Review

Fifa 07

FIFA might be the biggest console footy brand, but that doesn't mean it's the best on mobile. Previous FIFA games have suffered from dodgy controls, which too often left even accomplished mobile gamers flailing like Reading trying to keep out the massed ranks of an Arsenal attack. FIFA has always sold well on mobile, but it didn't always deserve to.

Until now. FIFA 07 is a considerably revamped version, and it plays much better as a mobile phone game in its own right, rather than being a squeezed-down console game. You can play a season in one of five leagues, including the Premiership, obviously, but also France, Germany, Spain or Italy.

All the player and team names are real - traditionally one of FIFA's biggest selling points - and you can tweak your tactics, line-up and formation till the cows come home, which is good news if you're a fan of Rafa Benitez's compulsory rotation policy.

This has been the case in previous FIFA games though. What's changed is the gameplay itself. The controls have been simplified, making it easy to launch slick end-to-end passing moves, and reducing the skill needed to blast long shots into the top corner. Instead of focusing on realism, EA has focused on fun. And it's all the better for it.

Tackling is much easier too, meaning you can actually get the ball off other teams once in a while. All this isn't to suggest that FIFA 07 is too easy, but just that you can have fun and get regular rewards for your skills. Needless to say, the graphics look fab too, especially if you've got a decent 3D-capable phone.

Yes, the keepers are still a bit dodgy, but all in all, FIFA 07 has finally claimed top spot in the mobile football league table. The beautiful game is back again.

The Sims 2: Castaway Mobile Game Review

The Sims 2: Castaway relocates EA’s sim people to a remote paradise, tasking you with survival by fishing, building shelter and fires, and keeping yourself shipshape.

In other words, it’s just like The Sims 2, which is already out on mobile, but with the new setting dictating different tasks. Talking to other Sims is still a big part of the gameplay, and they give you tasks to complete which form the main progression of the game. As you go, you unlock new parts of the island, rewarding exploration. It’s great fun.

Turok : Mobile Game Review

Turok

There aren't enough dinosaurs in mobile games, but Disney is rectifying this with the release of Turok, based on the console series. It sees you running around an alien planet blasting mutant dinosaurs and enemy merceneries. If you're thinking this is the recipe for a platform game, you'd be right.

Turok is unforgiving for newbies, so you'll need thumbs of fire to succeed. However, it's not just repetitious shooting. You have to spend a fair amount of time sneaking up to things rather than wading in blasting. Once you get to grips with the difficult level, Turok becomes a rewarding and challenging platformer.

Metal Gear Acid Mobile Game Review

Mobile Gear Acid

We're still waiting for console classic Metal Gear Solid to come to mobile, but in the meantime, its spin-off Metal Gear Acid will do nicely. It offers the same blend of 3D visuald and stealthy sneaking, but without a turn-based game structure where you play cards to make certain actions.

There's a lot of strategy involved, as you might have guessed, epecially if you wnt to grab more cards along the way, including health cards to build up your energy. The pace is pretty stately, which gives you plenty of time to think and plot your next move, while the graphics are excellent. It might not be Solid, but it's certainly solid.

Bomberman : Mobile Game Review

BomberMan

Bomberman is one of the most enduring games around, with 25 years since its first incarnation. The core gameplay has always been marvellously simple: you control a little man running round a maze dropping bombs, while collecting power-ups to make you even more explosive.
This all-new version won’t disappoint hardcore fans, thanks to its Classic mode that’s a homage to the original Bomberman game, just as you remember it. But for those of us who don’t wear rose-tinted spectacles, the real appeal is the other mode: Bomberman Supreme.
It’s got modern visuals for starters, with a graphical overhaul that’s simply spiffing. It might still be an overhead view, but it looks great.


Also new is the inclusion of two difficulty modes, ensuring the game is accessible to Bomberman newbies yet also presents a challenge for old hands. The latter will also enjoy the comprehensive history and help section.


But if you’re a Bomberman fan, the best news is yet to come: there’s a multiplayer Bluetooth mode, so you and a friend can blow each other up to your heart’s content. It works really well too, making it easy to connect and play within a matter of seconds.


You will, admittedly, need to persuade a friend to purchase and download Bomberman to play against them – but trust us, give them ten minutes with the version on your phone, and they’ll be sold. Whether you’re an established Bomberman fan or new to the series, you need this game. It’s explosively good.

Ronnie O'Sullivan Snooker 2008 Mobile Game Review

Ronnie O'Sullivan Snooker 2008

If, like us, you only get excited about snooker once a year, this new Ronnie O'Sullivan mobile game may at least prolong your potting jow. One one level, it's a pretty standard snooker game, with a top-down aiming view and a choice of views to actually watch your superb pot (or not).

The best bit is the game's career mode though, which lets you take on some of Ronnie's best moments from his entire career, from a callow teenager through to today. It's not something we've seen in a sports game before, but works really well. If you're a snooker fan, you need this game.

Nintendo Games on Your Phone

Fly has announced the MC100 Phone, which is the first phone to support Nintendo games.

The handset supports both Java MIDP2.0 / CLDC1.1. and Nintendo (nes/smc/gb/gbc) platform. Fly MC100 is the first handset offering its users this unique function. Games (nes/smc/gb/gbc) can be freely downloaded from the Internet and set up in your Fly MC100. Special game keys are disposed in the upper part for better convenience. There are in-built e-book and e-mail client functions for intellectual entertainment fans and for those who are used to working outside the office.

Fly MC100 is of medium dimensions — 111.4 × 50.2 × 15 mm and of optimal weight of 106 g for a handset of that class. A powerful 1050mAh Li-Ion battery provides a long musical marathon, many hours gaming and 5 -hour business talks. Fly MC100 is able for 330 hour operating in a stand-by mode.

Fly MC100 up-to-date TFT display of 262K colors with a 240×320 pixel resolution is perfectly suitable for viewing and editing images made with a 2 mega pixel camera with a digital zoom (maximal resolution is 1600×1200 pixels) and a multi-shooting function, as well as for video and clips playback.

Fly MC100 “works” with all popular audio and video formats (MIDI, IMY, WAV, AMR, AAC, MP3 and MPEG4/3GP) and plays records with a help of an in-built MP3 player or FM band. Fly MC100 is synchronized with computer and charged via USB cable, also can be connected with other devices via Bluetooth 1.2 A2DP. Fly MC100 in-built memory is 23 MB, and an additional microSD card for music, video and game collection storage.

The Phone is currently only available in the US , for a price of $270. Any further news of a UK launch will be brought to you, as always, on the 3G Mobile Phone Blog.

'Second Life’ on 3G Phones

The Second Lifeexperience is coming to mobile. The 3D virtual world platform, created by Linden Lab will soon be available on 3G handsets via Vollee’s streaming mobile games service. Beta trials for Vollee’s new mobile offering for the Second Life Grid platform (an inter-connected platform which extends beyond the mainland of Second Life itself) will be open to those who pre-register by visiting www.vollee.com/secondlife.

Vollee’s Second Life mobile service will enable access to the virtual world of Second Life for Residents to explore, interact and communicate on-line. The Second Life mobile experience reformats the online world to fit on mobile phone screens while mapping the keys on handsets to commands in-world. Existing Residents can simply log-in and people new to Second Life can also try out the online world for the first time through the mobile service. With a simple download to their 3G mobile handset, anyone can enjoy their online Second Life session while on the move.

Vollee’s proprietary solution is the only one on the market that can stream any high-end PC title to mobile, including popular massively multiplayer online role playing games. The company’s technology takes into account the screen size, the key layout and makes sure all the fun of playing the original game remains. Vollee's interactive video streaming platform optimizes compression to minimize bandwidth requirements and also leverages the 3G mobile networks in such a way that gamers can not only navigate virtual worlds but also play fast paced, high quality video games previously impossible on mobile.

A single software download to a 3G handset provides access to Vollee streamed titles, enabling gamers to find and play mobile games more easily than ever.

Catchphrase : Mobile Game Review

CatchPhrase

In the immortal words, we’ll say what we see: Catchphrase is a slick mobile update of the classic TV quiz, where the aim is to guess the catchphrases on screen.

The game is based closely on the structure of the original TV show, with all the original rounds. Guessing catchphrases involves tapping them in like a text message, which is a bit fiddly, but on the whole works well. It gets the tension of the original across, and results in a worthy successor to Noel’s star turn.

Disney Announces New Mobile Games

Walt Disney Internet Group today announces five brand new titles for its mobile phone range of easily playable, highly enjoyable games that can be played by all ages.

First up is Lego Bionicle Defenders, (based on the flash game "Tower Defenders"), featuring the popular Lego line of articulated toys in the mobile world. This fast-moving game takes place in a hostile undersea environment, where the player must battle through 16 levels and clear out all the Barrakis’ hostile sea creatures in their search for the Mask of Life. Lego Bionicle Defenders will be available from March 4.

Also in March, Disney Channel TV star Hannah Montana will be available on mobile, with a range of phone personalisation features, including wallpaper, screensavers, realtones, ringtones, and phone themes.

The more traditional Disney characters also feature in the spring line-up of mobile games, with the ever-popular Donald Duck returning in Disney's PK - Phantom Duck. Disney's very own superhero is available on your mobile screen now, in a platform game, with puzzle challenges running through it to test the player’s brains.

Donald Duck also stars in Disney Bonus Selection, which includes two games for the price of one. Donald Duck's Quest Deluxe is a sequel to the wildly popular Donald Duck’s Quest game, delivering more than 60 levels of puzzles and five hours of brain-tickling fun! In the second game, Duckburg, you play as rookie cop Donald Duck and help him keep traffic moving smoothly through the chaotic streets!

Then, later in the year, WDIG is proud to be releasing the second game in its Narnia series, based on the classic books by C S Lewis, Narnia Prince Caspian. In addition to the game itself, WDIG will be releasing Prince Caspian branded wallpapers, ringtones, realtones, theme, and screensavers. Both the game and the film Narnia Prince Caspian are due to be released in August.

Project Gotham Racing Mobile Game Review

Project Gotham Racing

For those of you still playing on that antique Atari of yours, Project Gotham Racing is one of the best console racing games money can buy, blending a host of glamorous cars with amazing-looking 3D scenery from real-world cities. It's one of the main reasons to buy an Xbox 360 console.

So how can you fit such a complex game onto mobile? Well, Glu Mobile has managed it with aplomb. PGR Mobile is a pitch-perfect conversion that keeps the original's tight controls while packing graphics that - while obviously nowhere near the console version - still set the bar for mobile racers.

You get to race in London, Paris and San Francisco, each with identifiable scenery and tracks. The gameplay is a mixture of street races, time trials, head-to-head battles and even road-cone avoidance. You compete in the races, and if you do well, you earn medals and money to buy faster and more powerful cars.

Key to the game - just like the console version - is kudos. You earn kudos from flashy moves, like skidding round corners, skillful overtaking and even leaving the ground (easiest on the sharp hills of San Francisco).

It looks ace, with proper 3D visuals if your handset is good enough. Equally important is the fact that it's fast, meaning that racing thrills haven't been sacrificed for graphical flair. There is a bit of pop-up (buildings appearing seemingly from nowhere), but this is acceptable given how the game plays.

Most importantly, the cars handle like you'd expect from playing the Xbox 360 version - which, in a game focused around skidding, is vital. And the controls have been well worked for mobile, so you don't get your thumbs in a tangle even when snorting through a tight corner with two other cars on your tail.

Love driving games? Project Gotham Racing is the one to own. Especially if you're sceptical about whether mobile phones can handle the genre. And best of all, the game is connected, so you can compare your kudos score with other players around the world. Simply marvellous.