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Multiplayer Championship Poker Texas Holdem - Real Dice

With all the rave about internet massive multiplayer games(World of Warcraft being probably the best-known example), it’s no wonder that people started getting interested in massive multiplayer mobile games as well.
Meet Real Dice, one of the first mobile gaming startups targeting the massive multiplayer community, with the creation of Real Dice World, a subscriber-based community [...]


Eidos Interactive

The PR representative for the mobile division of Eidos Interactive has sent us the following press release, that we’re glad to publish to our readers.


Second Life on the mobile phone, soon

A Techmeme article informs us about a mobile gaming news that definitely deserves being featured here: according to this Reuters article , Comverse Technology, has created in the last 6 months an application that runs Second Life on Java-enabled mobile phones, along with other software that allows integrated SMS and instant messaging and the streaming [...]


Top 10 java mobile games to offer your girlfriend for Valentines

If you’re the gamer type and have a girlfriend, then congrats!(You are one of the few )Ahem… let’s not be mean; perhaps you are more like me: not a full-time gamer, but still enjoying the occasional digital fun. In this case, just like me, you might have ran into a tiny couples problem: your [...]


Collin McRae Rally 2005

Warning! This game is not new, it’s not even great, but from time to time we like playing it and maybe you will too.
If the title of this game got your attention then my brief review won’t give away too many surprises. After all, the PC, Playstation and XBox games from the series have been [...]


5 things noobs should know about java mobile games

Hello everyone. I’m back, and this time with a little FAQ on the world of mobile phone gaming.
I guess this should have been the first article here on Mobicritic, our mobile games blogzine. Still, it’s never too late to get some things straight and talk of some more obscure things such as platforms, memory [...]


Astro Pop, great mobile fun

You’ve never played Astro Pop? OMG! Where have you been living?
Jokes aside now, I didn’t know about this game either, until I stumbled upon its mobile version. After playing with it a bit(and felling in-love with the simple yet exciting gameplay), I made a small Google query and.. voilĂ ..! To my not-so-big surprise, I learned [...]


The bitter-sweet pleasure of being digged

Nope, this is not another post of the “I’ve been digged” series. Well, it is, kinda, but it’s also a public apology. Mine, Mobicritic’s administrator. Ours, Mobicritic’s editors.
Just like any other blogger, ever since starting Mobicritic.com two months ago, I dreamt of getting Digged. Tens of thousands of people running into our site at [...]


Top 50 mobile game downloads in the UK

The ELSPA website (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) provides a monthly top of the most downloaded mobile games in the UK, thus being a pretty accurate java mobile gaming market monitor. Once in a while(that’s once a year, mind you!) they also compile a Top 50 list of mobile games downloads.


Top 5 mobile games to play on a desert island (or a really long business trip)

Top 5 Long-Playing Mobile Games
Imagine some weird deity that takes you hostage on a desert island, for eternity. He/She gives you food, water, electricity, and five games of your choice to play on your mobile Java phone. Or, in case this kind of scenario is too absurd for your, just pick 5 games of your [...]