Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News, Mobile Phones, Puzzles, Word Games | Leave a Comment
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Electronic Arts (EA) has signed a deal with Taito to distribute mobile phone games across Europe. Taito has developed such games as Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble and Arknoid. All of the aforementioned games and more will be available for phones across Europe. 
The deal also allows for Taito games to be ported to smartphones to expand the audience the games can reach. The first games to be released will be Cooking Mama, Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble and Rainbow Islands.
“Taito has produced some of the all time games classics – such as Space Invaders, Puzzle Bobble and Arkanoid - as well as innovating with new titles such as Cooking Mama,” said Javier Ferreira, VP of European Publishing, EA Mobile. “This deal gives EA Mobile immediate access to an incredibly popular catalogue on existing devices while offering us the opportunity to bring these titles to new mobile platforms.”
Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Preview, Puzzles | Leave a Comment
Little Farm is a puzzle matching game released for the PC by MumboJumbo. Little Farm is a vastly different from other matching type games. The story follows The Norman family as they were left a farm and have to make something out of the overgrown land. Lucky for the Norman family they have a friendly neighbor to explain the intricacies of farming.
Players need to match vegetables to fill up a truck before time runs out. As the game progresses, you need to fill up more trucks with different types of vegetables in each truck. Players match vegetables by making a square with the same type of vegetable in each corner of the square. You click and drag to make any type of shape with four corners that match. The shape doesn’t have to be a square it can be a rectangle as well, but the most important part is all four corners are the same type of vegetable. The vegetables in between the rectangle or square are all taken off the board. The vegetables that are not needed go to a waste heap and the vegetables that are needed go to the truck and fill the meter on the truck.
Little Farm provides more challenges than just finding matches. Players have to manage such things as the waste pile that accumulates and get rid of the bugs that show up in later levels. The bugs can be swatted way with a click of the mouse, but they fly to the next vegetable and need to be swatted away again before they leave for good. Things get hectic between trying to find matches and stopping the bugs from eating the vegetables, but there are items you can buy to make life easier. The trucks bring your vegetables to the market and receive money for them. Players can buy different seeds as the game progresses, which make more money when sold at the market. The items help out a lot, but are fairly expensive and some items can only be bought later in the game.
Little Farm is extremely fun to play. The story is intriguing and the game play is original and challenging enough to keep you interested, but not too challenging that you get frustrated with everything. Little Farm is available for download today (May 20th). Check out Little Farm, you won’t be disappointed.
Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Game Shows, Industry News, Mobile Phones | Leave a Comment
Capcom and Handango have partnered to bring Capcom’s top games to mobile phones across North America. Some of the games that will be available are Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Street Fighter, Mega Man as well as many other games.
“At a time when smartphone sales are exploding and more and more users are downloading mobile games than ever before, Capcom’s blockbuster titles offer our customers access to some of pop culture’s top brands,” said Bill Stone, CEO of Handango. “A key part of our growth strategy is to expand our offering to include more leading-edge content for our customers. Capcom is a market leader in games for consumers of all ages and we are pleased to make their titles available through Handango.”
A Capcom and Handango partnership is great for the mobile phone gamer. The game shows make for great mobile games. They can be played in short bursts, which makes them convenient for mobile phone gamers. Mobile phone gamers like games to pass their time waiting and these games will do just that.
Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Nintendo Wii, Puzzles, WiIWare | Leave a Comment
Nintendo is bringing back Dr. Mario and has announced the release of Dr. Mario & Germ Buster on the Nintendo Wii as a WiiWare game. Players have to help stop the germs from spreading by matching pills.
In case you weren’t around in the Nintendo Entertainment System days, Dr. Mario, the original, was a game similar to Tetris. The object of the game is to make a four of a kind match of one color. The viruses are eliminated when they are included in the four of a kind match. The viruses are all colored. The pills are dropped by Dr. Mario and they are also colored. The pills have to be aligned in a formation that matches the color of the virus in a four of a kind horizontal or vertical line. Kill all of the viruses and you beat the level.
Dr. Mario & Germ Buster adds a new mode, Germ Buster mode, to the mix. Players use the Wii Remote to grab the pills, rotate and slot the pills. Players can play against the computer in single player mode, against each other in two player mode or with other people over Nintendo Wi-Fi connection.
Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Cards, Flash, Free Games, Puzzles, Sports | Leave a Comment
www.gamingforcharity.org is a web site dedicated to helping charity. The site donates money to charities that help cancer, HIV/AIDS and world hunger. The direct charities that benefit are International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, United Nations World Food Programme and National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. 
Gaming For Charity.org contains free flash games. Currently, there are 2,400 different flash games to play. The games are from all types of genres including sports games, puzzle games and card games. Every time you play a game you are counted as a view for that page. The sponsors of the web site pay per display of the ad on each page. All of the money goes to the charities mentioned above. Each month the charity that gets the money changes. All three charities are rotated throughout the year.
If you are looking for some free games to play and to help out charity, head over to www.gamingforcharity.com.
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