MobHappy

True to form, more details are emerging on the spectacular Ferrari crash last week involving former Gizmondo CEO Stefan Eriksson. Police now say the Ferrari was traveling in excess of 160 miles and hour when it crashed, but they’ve also released several more juicy details that — of course — don’t paint the best picture [...]

We’ve done a fairly thorough job of chronicling the “rise” and demise of Gizmondo. The fun really started when Russell unearthed the company’s, uh, interesting executive renumeration scheme, and continued with the news that some of the execs had served jail time for organized crime and fraud. Unsurprisingly, the company has gone under — but [...]

When Nokia confirmed it wouldn’t be making any more N-Gage models a little while ago, the surprise was, well, surprising, given it had announced the plans at E3 in May to make the N-Gage a gaming platform and extend it across multiple devices, and reiterated it a couple months ago in Barcelona. But then again, [...]

Sony is the latest console maker to announce parental controls for its platform, according to CNN. The new PS3 will join models from rivals Microsoft and Nintendo that allow parents to veto the machines’ ability to play rated video or games. While the big three need to show that they’re doing something to avoid Government [...]

Mobile game guru Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but now head of Manifesto Games, highlighted a number of problems facing the mobile games industry, and developers in particular. – The mobile gaming business model impedes innovation, because consumers buy games based on one line of text, and therefore are drawn to recognized brands (Tetris, [...]

Jason Ford, the general manager of games and entertainment for Sprint Nextel gave the mobile keynote this morning at the Austin Game Conference. Here are some notes from his presentation: – All this talk about the “third screen” — the mobile phone is more like the 4th or 5th screen for gamers. – Who is [...]

I posted last week about how Digital Chocolate’s Trip Hawkins — previously the founder of gaming giant EA — believes in mobile games with a strong social element, rather than flashy versions of console games ported to mobile, or games based solely around hot graphics. I saw today the news that mobile game publisher In-Fusio [...]