Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Mobile games news

China's Mobile Game Market

"...Digital-Red Mobile Software is an up-and-coming member of China's fast-growing mobile game market. The five-year-old game developer already has several of its mobile games embedded in Nokia phones sold in China. Recently, Digital-Red was acquired by Shanda Interactive Entertainment, the largest PC-game company in China. As a result, Digital-Red is now able to reach millions of new potential customers. The company has developed more than 80 games for Symbian OS.

Digital-Red is now branching out in a number of directions. It has expanded its marketing beyond China, making licensing deals with 40 operators in 25 countries. It has also developed a multimedia engine, Dragon Bone, that allows PC games to be easily ported to mobile phones. The company has also been certified as a Nokia training center, and it offers training in topics such as Java™ technology and Symbian OS development. Most recently, Digital-Red has been working to port its mobile games to S60 3rd Edition..."

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1 comment:

Cervantes de Leonard said...

A lot of focus on Nokia phones. Any idea what the quality of their games is like?