Throughout the IT industry’s history, computer games have been one of the drivers behind technology innovations. Computer gamers are hungry for more hardware computing power; they are eager to push ...

In Part 1 of this series, I overviewed the two leading platforms for smart device development: Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) and .Net Compact Framework. The two platforms’ ultimate goals are ...

Game Developers Conference - San Francisco, Calif. - February 18, 2008, San Francisco, CA - Nokia and PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, will bring connected mobile ...

Technology giant Sun Microsystems has made fresh moves into the games market, signing deals with Nokia and Infinium Labs which will see its Java technology being tied in to the SNAP platform and ...

The trend of mobile operators outsourcing their mobile Java games portals to third parties looks set to continue, with Orange UK apparently preparing to abandon its own internally developed games ...

The last panel of the day at GCDC's mobile track concerns cross-platform publishing the increasing trend to extend mobile games to PC, the web, console and/or handheld. Michael Schade of Fishlabs is ...