Now in its 6th year, the Mobile Games Forum is the industry’s most established and respected event.With the whole ecosystem present - operators, publishers, developers, handset manufacturers and software providers – all industry viewpoints will be represented. The unbeatable MGF09 speaker line-up will include cutting-edge presentations from industry leaders.
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EA had signed a deal with Eidos granting it mobile licenses for four titles: Tomb Raider Underworld, Just Cause 2, California Games X and Minesweeper.

The Redwood publisher has also taken a future option on the mobile versions of the majority of Eidos video game properties for a period of three years.

In the press release Javier Ferreira, VP of European Publishing at EA Mobile, was quoted saying “Eidos has a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including the world famous Tomb Raider games,”.

Simon Protheroe, online publishing director at Eidos, was quoted saying “EA Mobile is the world leader for mobile publishing, with excellent carrier and OEM relationships in all corners of the globe”.

It’s just left to see how well accepted will be the mobile version of the PC/Consoles most popular busty chick.

18 September 2008 - London, UK, Hall T4 - Sony Ericsson today launches its new multimedia Xperia(TM) X1 mobile phone, at Tent London, to showcase its innovative and unique style amongst some of the world’s most cutting edge designers.

Tent London - part of London Design Week - offers visitors the opportunity to experience and exclusively preview this stunning phone at the Sony Ericsson stand in Hall T4. Read more »

The guys from IMGA had just announced about the release of thier 3rd mini-magazine. You can check it out here.

They would also like to remind you that submissions to the IMGA awards contest is due by September 22nd, so hurry up if you want to make it to the deadline.

Just to get you going, here are the (probable) categories and prizes:

• The International Mobile Gaming Grand Prix (US$15,000)
• The International Mobile Gaming Excellence in 3D Award (US$5,000)
• The International Mobile Gaming Excellence in Connectivity Award (US$5,000)
• The International Mobile Gaming Excellence in Game Play Award (US$5,000)
• The International Mobile Gaming Best Real World Game (US$5,0000)
• The International Mobile Gaming Best Casual Game Award (developed in Flash, Java, etc.) (US$5,000)

The nominees will be announced in October 2008. The winners will be announced on 16th of February 2009.

Harry Li published a post on his Forum Nokia blog which discusses a testing trick on Symbian and Mozilla, and he also gives a code sample and a config file sample to show his method.

“Probably all Unix gurus like the powerful shell script, and it is commonly used for testing purpose. In NSS the test cases are all called by several complex shell scripts, and there is a very flexibility to extend usage of these tests caller scripts. Unluckily we don’t have a shell script executing environment on Symbian OS. But I was borrowing ideas of this testing method, by writing a console application and treat it as the main body to coordinate all test cases.”

Read it and grab the sample files here.

London, UK – PRESS RELEASE - MobileGD.com - 15th September, 2008: Ad-funded mobile games outfit www.123play.com today announced a partnership with one of the world’s leading independent publishers, Dennis Publishing, to give readers the means to download free mobile games directly to their phones. The deal includes the following websites in the agreement: www.computershopper.co.uk, www.custompc.co.uk and new sites like www.denofgeek.com and www.knowyourmobile.com will include instructions of how to download free games from 123play.com’s packed portfolio. Read more »

Another doze of charts, coming from the UK and US

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Jamster - UK Game Download Chart  - 15 July - 15 August 2008
Data Source: Jamster

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New Technology Allows Developers to “Write Once, Run Anywhere” Across Mobile, Smartphone and Web 2.0 Landscapes

SAN FRANCISCO - September 9, 2008 - Mytopia Inc., an innovator in cross-platform technology, today announced the official launch of RUGS™ (the Real-time Universal Gaming System), a patent-pending, proprietary framework for rapid rich media creation across the Web, mobile and smartphone landscapes. The revolutionary new technology, which was announced this afternoon in a presentation given at the prominent TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, allows developers to code rich, connected applications one time, and simultaneously deploy native versions to every supported platform, including iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, Android and J2ME devices, as well as popular web platforms like Facebook’s F8 and Google’s Open Social. Content created on RUGS harnesses the unique capabilities of each platform, while running from a singular code base. For more information about Mytopia, please visit www.mytopia.com. Read more »

Pasi Manninen keeps testing KunerLite plugins and report to the community. Kuneri have done 11 nice plugins to extend Flash Lite applications and Pasi went out to test some of them. This article he covers the taking, playing and sending video to a remote server. Read more »