Why is it that Japan gets pretty good mobile games?
 
Famitsu reports Square-Enix’s official announcement of Front Mission Mobile titled Front Mission 2089-II. Details are pretty scarce as to what the game’s story is about; but if I had to take a guess, I’d assume its a gaiden to Front Mission 1st as evidenced by the [...]

 
After bringing the Onechanbara to mobile phones, D3 Publisher is giving the Earth Defense Force a mobile phone release too. Like other Earth Defense Force games you blow up giant bugs with an explosive arsenal of weapons. There are seventy different weapons in the cell phone game to choose from and an underground labyrinth to [...]

D3 Publisher finished up work on the Onechanbara Mobile, a portable version of their cult hit. Like the PS2 and Xbox 360 games you dice up zombies and other abominations into bloody pools. The screenshots show an over the shoulder camera instead of a fully 3D battlefield. Also the style of the game has changed [...]

 
Chocobos do everything. They protect you from enemy attacks, race, fight their way through mysterious dungeons and now they play baseball. Yes baseball. Square-Enix is rolling out a bunch of chocobo games for cell phones in Japan. The baseball game has players hit keys based on the type of pitch to smack balls out of [...]

THQ Wireless released Lego Star Wars II Mobile, which is nothing like Lego Star Wars except for the character models. Instead of running around with a hybrid Luke Skywalker wookie with a lightsaber you’re restricted to a trusty blaster. The gameplay also changed from an action game to something similar to Metal Gear Solid where [...]

There have been plenty of Space Invaders remakes over the years. Space Invaders Revolution for the DS has new formations, which is what most “new” Space Invaders games do. Taito’s 3D mobile phone version goes for a different approach, classic Space Invaders game in 3D with the option to switch between three camera angles. The [...]

Lost Planet is now in two places in Japan, the Xbox 360 and in a trimmed down cell phone game. The mobile version looks like it trims down the gameplay to first person shooting and vital suit combat. It’s the bare bones of the Lost Planet experience, but it also has one of [...]

The Xbox Live hit, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is being ported to mobile phones by Hardcore3D Wireless. Control for Geometry Wars required the use of dual analog sticks. One stick was used to move your ship and the other is for firing shots. How is control going to be translated to mobile phones? “Intuitive ‘tap’ [...]

Previously we’ve Tesseraction games lease out their talent through an eBay auction. Now the entire company of Robotube games is on sale with a starting price of $850,000. It might seem like a huge price, but you are buying the entire company. All of the intellectual property (eight cell phone games and 34 flash games) [...]

More Capcom ports are heading to cell phones in Japan. They just announced that another installment of Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright) is coming out. This episode is the final story in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney with the young scientist. Interestingly, Capcom is releasing the cell phone version with an English language option.

 
Capcom has an all [...]