Wireless gaming for the mobile generation
Just wait until the third generation of mobiles is with us.
WWF Smackdown publisher, THQ, has just announced THQ Wireless, a company set up to develop Java-based games. As WAP technology becomes the standard in mobile phones, enterprising games developers are beginning to produce content for the emerging platform. Playing Snake is a superb way to waste time, but imagine competing directly against gamers using your mobile phone’s inbuilt ‘on-line’ capability. With advances in mobile technology, we’ll see an associated and dramatic increase in the quality of mobile games.
THQ also announced an expansion of its publishing arrangement with Siemens. The two companies are working on developing an Application Programming Interface for mobile technology. This interface will speed up the production of next-generation mobile games.
"We anticipate the wireless gaming market growth to mirror that of the console gaming market over the next few years with wireless gaming revenues expected to reach $6 billion worldwide by 2005," commented Tim Walsh, Senior Vice President of International Publishing at THQ.
THQ also announced an expansion of its publishing arrangement with Siemens. The two companies are working on developing an Application Programming Interface for mobile technology. This interface will speed up the production of next-generation mobile games.
"We anticipate the wireless gaming market growth to mirror that of the console gaming market over the next few years with wireless gaming revenues expected to reach $6 billion worldwide by 2005," commented Tim Walsh, Senior Vice President of International Publishing at THQ.
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THQ
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