Mobile Development News

The GameSkin featuring Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance marks the first time a Mortal Kombat game will be played on a wireless phone. This game accessory will add Game Boy Advance style controls to optimize the phone for competitive Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance play. This first GameSkin will debut later this year, and it will be available for use with Identity, a new phone manufactured by Curitel that will be launched this summer.

For mobile phone game developers, this is good news. Supporting accessories like this can allow for the mobile game experience to meet that of a dedicated mobile console, like a GameBoy. Not only that, but buying an accessory for a specific game is sure to increase the loyalty for that game. This is good for markets like BREW where subscription fees are common.

They are also compatible with Symbian phones, although if I were doing a Symbian game I would want to support the N-Gage for a mobile console-like experience as much as an add-on for other phones.

Wildseed Announces First GameSkin Featuring the Top-Selling Fighting Game Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

Linux Devices writes:

Linux will power a customizable GSM/GPRS mobile phone, set to launch in July, that will support "SmartSkins," snap-on covers that contain tiny embedded Linux subsystems that add games, music videos, or other content or functions.