This one I had to try! I saw on textually.org that pokerroom.com had launched a fully interactive poker client for mobile phones. YAY! That’s got to be the best time killer since bejeweled.
I fly off to their website and start looking for the application. After signing up and providing them with all personal information short of my average amount of bathroom visits, I end up with THIS!
So they haven’t really launched it yet, well they fooled me. If they keep the mid-april deadline (I don’t really trust deadlines with vague
dates) I’ll be sure to try out their poker client, for now I’ll just try and get unsuspecting fellow travellers into high-stakes poker games.
This promise of on the road poker against real-live players set me on a little, seriously un-scientific “I’m just an end user” kind of quest. I decided to have a look at today’s offering of mobile multiplayer games.
I decided not to look at MMORPG’s like It’s alive but just at simple graphical clients which allow me to play anything from monopoly to chess online.
It turns out to be rather hard to find these kinds of games. I’ve had a look at some of the leading mobile software distribution sites and none of them had a multiplayer section. I quickly scanned around a bunch of sites and I didn’t find anything that caught my attention. This surprises me. Looking at the success of companies such as zylom and popcap, why wouldn’t they create simple clients to play the same online games over a mobile phone? By the way, I found mobile games on Popcap’s website but no multiplayer ones. I’m also surprised that I haven’t heard anything from the carriers in this direction, it’s got to be interesting for them as it’s bound to generate good data traffic. Much better then MMS anyways 
I’m certainly no specialist in this market. I’m strictly a private gamer that remotely stays in touch what’s happening in the gaming world. Am I missing something or is this a wave that is still pretty much in development?
We thank Dennis Hettema for contributing this article.
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