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Front Mission Mobile!

By Rolando . April 25, 2007 . 5:43pm

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,…

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Earth Defense Force comes to cell phones

By Spencer . January 22, 2007 . 7:19am

  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…

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Cel shaded Onechanbara comes to cell phones

By Spencer . January 11, 2007 . 7:25am

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…

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Chocobo de Mobile shows that chocobos can do anything

By Spencer . January 8, 2007 . 10:51am

  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…

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Lego Star Wars now on your phone

By Spencer . January 2, 2007 . 1:40pm

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…

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Space Invaders FPS style

By Spencer . January 1, 2007 . 6:46pm

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…

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Lost Planet’s cell phone debut

By Spencer . December 21, 2006 . 3:25pm

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…

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Geometry Wars coming to a cell phone near you

By Spencer . November 6, 2006 . 10:41am

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…

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Mobile phone game company for sale on eBay

By Spencer . November 1, 2006 . 11:42am

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.…

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Capcom classics move to cell phones

By Spencer . September 11, 2006 . 11:39am

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,…