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EA reveals Android gaming plans: Tetris, Bejeweled, Monopoly, oh my!

by Darren Murph posted Oct 30th 2008 @ 1:33PM

Hot on the heels of Electronic Arts kinda-sorta slamming Nokia for its lackluster N-Gage gaming platform comes word that the video game giant will be dabbling in the world of Android here shortly. Unsurprisingly, we're informed that Tetris will be the first Android title out, while Bejeweled and Monopoly should follow suit in November. According to EA Mobile vice president Adam Sussman, "Android is another exciting new platform to offer customers great games with enhancements like touch and tilt capabilities," and while we weren't given specifics outside of the aforesaid titles, more games are definitely "in development."

Nokia expects "challenging times" for handset gaming to continue

by Darren Murph posted Oct 29th 2008 @ 8:40PM

It shouldn't come as any huge surprise that the handset gaming market isn't exactly thriving, and with these curious economic times surrounding us, we have all ideas that folks have better things to worry over than what their N-Gage buddies are doing. And so does Nokia. According to Jaakko Kaidesoja, head of Nokia's gaming operations, he "expects challenging times to continue," noting that the "overall gaming market is likely not growing." Predictably, he was fairly bullish on the eventual success of the N-Gage platform and the iPhone, but he did confess that pre-loading the N-Gage software onto mobiles would greatly help adoption (you think?). In related news, EA Mobile's Peter Parmenter thrashed Nokia by calling N-Gage "not quite polished yet" and referring to it as a soft launch. It's okay Nokia -- we still have to find something to do on the can, so surely gaming fits in there somewhere.

[Via mocoNews]

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EA delivering downloadable games to Nokia handsets

by Donald Melanson posted Sep 13th 2006 @ 5:23PM

Nokia and Electronic Arts have announced a partnership that'll see the uber-gamemaker delivering some of its mobile titles directly to Nokia handsets via Nokia's "Content Discoverer" portal. The initial line-up of titles, set to drop this holiday season, include: Tetris, Tetris Mania, The Sims 2, Doom, FIFA 06, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 and FIFA Street 2. EA's also announced that it'll support Nokia's next generation gaming platform, with yet-to-be-announced "custom-designed" titles for Nokia S60 devices. Not announced, however, are any indication of prices for the games, or any details on what other games might be forthcoming. Madden would seem like a safe bet, and we can only hope that Spore will find its way into our hands as soon as possible.