Verizon Wireless customers now have another excuse for not reading the paper on the train into work, as Konami Digital Entertainment have released the mobile version of Metal Gear Solid exclusively for the carrier's handsets.  Coded by the same team responsible for the console version of the title, the 3D game has a new storyline apparently set in-between Metal Gear ... continued »

Nokia have ceased accepting sign-ups for their N-Gage First Access mobile gaming beta, which will expire on March 27th in preparation for the full release client to be launched.  The company is now polishing this final version, including incorporating feedback from beta testers, and while high-scores and achievements will be lost once the upgrade from pre-release to final software takes ... continued »

If there's anything to get a geek's mouth watering, it's LEGO, and developer play/nyc are looking to bring some of that fun to the iPhone.  Okay, so there's nothing quite like having the real bricks in your hands, but with LEGO Touch for iPhone you'd be able to build models, animate them and even send them to friends so that they ... continued »

It's almost amusing how things work out sometimes. People have been trying to get Apple to work with developers to put games on their systems, and to date there is still a huge shortage of available games. However, hope is on the horizon for people wanting to play games on an Apple product, the ironic thing is that the ... continued »

A recent patent application by Sony Ericsson documents what could be the basis of the well-rumored PSP Phone which even the official Sony magazine has suggested is in development.  Titled "Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touchscreen display", the document basically describes a handset with a full touchscreen that can be reconfigured to display gaming or more traditional cellphone controls, using haptic feedback to ... continued »

Sod the Enterprise features, what the iPhone needs is a really good game - something it can do and that pales on other devices.  Trism, spotted on YouTube (you can see the video after the cut), might be just the thing: ostensibly a basic colour-matching puzzle, the game uses both the touchscreen, to move rows, and the iPhone's accelerometer (which normally ... continued »

Fancy console-quality 3D gaming on your cellphone?  ARM today announced the Mali-JSR297 graphics stack software which, it claims, will allow Java programmers to use the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics processing units in some mobile devices.  GPUs like ARM's own Mali200, which is to be found the Ericsson U500 HSPA mobile platform, can now use the same OpenGL API as the PlayStation ... continued »

Samsung are taking on the thorny challenge of cellphone gaming with an ambitious, swinging-screen concept that presents a standard-looking clamshell handset which can be twisted into a game-friendly joypad layout.  The patent documents a cellphone the inner screen of which is separate from both halves of the casing, and can swivel out to clip into place by the main hinge; the device is ... continued »

During the Mobile World Congress last week NEC were using Second Life to demonstrate their SCI VoIP and multimedia platform, but there didn't seem to be any indication that a commercial release was planned.  However, cellphone gaming company Vollee have picked up that baton and are set to launch their own Second Life Mobile application that they've been developing in partnership with the ... continued »

I'm not one to be unduly critical of cellphone concepts - well okay, that's a lie - but sometimes a design exercise comes along that just makes you cringe.  One such example is this, Jas Seehra's Alienware Android cellphone concept.  Based around the patchy rumor that Dell are considering entering the cellphone market using Google's new platform, and borrowing heavily ... continued »