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Mobile Games Market Has ‘Flatlined’ – Experts

9:20AM Stuart Houghton | Now hang on a minute. It doesn’t seem like five minutes since some gaggle of market pundits were proclaiming that the iPhone had turned the mobile games market inside out and pointing at developers rolling around in pits of cash like Scrooge McDuck. More »

Nokia Adding Zeemote Support To N-Gage

7:20AM Kotaku US Edition | The ZeeMote JS1 is a nunchuk-like Bluetooth analogue controller that we first covered back in October last year. It was a nice idea, hampered slightly by the fact that games had to be rewritten to add support for the thing. Now Nokia has decided to embrace the ZeeMote by releasing downloadable software to let the controller work with almost any S60 app or N-Gage game. The ZeeKey app is available for free download from the Nokia website and the mobile manufacturer has promised to bundle the app with selected handsets (presumably its more entertainment focused N-Series models). Zeekey app for Zeemote available for Nokia phones [Pocket Lint] More »

Harrison, Molyneux Agree – Controllers Are Too Complicated

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Both soon-to-be-ex Sony Worldwide Studios head Phil Harrison and Fable creator Peter Molyneux agree – our game controllers are too complicated. To a person who has grown up playing video games they might seem second nature, but if you’ve ever put a PS3 controller into the hands of a non-gamer and watched them try to figure out where their fingers should go, you might agree. “”We don’t use half the buttons on the 360 controller,” admitted Molyneux, “simply because the whole dream I’ve got is that someone will sit down to play Fable 2 who has never played a game before and they can play with someone who’s played games the whole of their lives. What a lovely way to put it. Harrison, on the other hand? A bit more colorful. “You hand somebody a game controller and it’s like you’ve handed them a live gun or a hand grenade with the pin taken out” More »

The Fly Mobile MC100 Is Your New (Unofficial) Nintendo Phone

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | This is the Fly Mobile MC100. It’s a pretty standard phone from a phone company I’ve never heard of. Which should make it utterly unremarkable. It’s got one thing going for it, though – comprehensive and most probably completely unlicensed support for the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour. I say probably unlicensed because all Fly will say is that, to play the games on the handset, you can just download them “freely” from the internet and bung them on your phone. Which I’m sure Nintendo’s lawyers are totally cool with. Nintendo games available on a mobile phone [Pocketgamer] More »