The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the time for gaming peripheral makers to shine, and not many are quite as shiny as SteelSeries. They’re doing up CES 2012 big with a tiny Bluetooth gamepad, some travel-friendly headsets and mice, mice, mice. More »
Bungie “Aerospace” filed a trademark for a new phone-based game called “Crimson” last week. The trademark is described as a “Computer game software for use on mobile and cellular phones.” and “Computer game software downloadable from a global computer network.” More »
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The MIX10 conference kicked off today in Las Vegas. Most of the stuff they’ll be talking about puts me to sleep instantly, but Microsoft let us know to expect some Windows Phone 7 news to hit as well. More »
Sony may not yet be ready to dive in feet first with a PlayStation branded phone, but the new Sony Ericsson Aino brings some of that “gadget to gadget” magic Sony bossman Howard Stringer teased. More »
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.
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]
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”
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]
