|
Newsletters
|
|
|
|
|
Wireless Developer Network - Daily News
View Today's WirelessDeveloper NewsWire
Today's News |
WirelessDevNet DevZones |
Yesterday's News |
Submit News |
News-"wireless" Top Stories! |
Around-The-Web
| Wireless DevZones!
Babel signed up by iFone after recent Vodafone deal
Outsourcing games specialists Babel Media’s recent £30,000 investment in its mobile game division and opening of a new testing facility in New Delhi, India have reaped further dividends.
Leading global wireless entertainment publisher, iFone, has commissioned the company to undertake extensive functionality and localisation testing on its entire catalogue of mobile games. These include major board game titles such as MONOPOLY and CLUEDO and cutting-edge titles V Rally® and StuntmanTM .
Babel will test the localisation of all iFone’s games into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese. Babel will also put all of the company’s games through Babel and Vodafone's certification programme for those games that are going out on Vodafone live!, including the Atari Classics Asteroids®, BreakoutTM and Centipede®.
Babel was recently appointed by Vodafone as the first accredited mobile games testing house for Vodafone live! The two companies created a checklist of submission criteria that ensures all games are downloaded to the handset quickly and the coding of all games are compatible with Vodafone’s requirements.
Babel has since gone on to test more than 200 games for Vodafone developed by leading Japanese, Korean and European developers. The company has also worked on leading titles such as James Bond Ice Racer, Pac-Man and Moto GP.
“It’s great to see the quality of games that iFone is producing. The company is contributing hugely to the mobile games sector that is growing at an extraordinary rate,” said Algy Williams, Managing Director at Babel.
The company’s expertise and experience in console and PC gaming has proved invaluable to phone companies as mobile games have soared in popularity. According to Strategy Analytics, the mobile games industry will be worth $7 billion by 2008.
www.babelmedia.com
www.ifone.com
About Babel
Babel is one of the world's leading providers of specialist services to the games and interactive entertainment industries. These services include localisation, QA, editorial, porting, interactive TV, print, audio, high-end video, design and online marketing.
Clients include wireless companies such as Vodafone, Motorola, Ifone, Orange and Iomo, many of the largest international games publishers such as Microsoft, Nintendo, Infogrames, Activision, Sony, Codemasters, BBC, Eidos, Acclaim, Empire and Konami, and interactive television companies such as BSkyB.
About iFone
iFone is backed by Marlborough Holdings, a technology investment firm, and is a preferred partner of Infogrames Entertainment. The management team combines expertise in games’ publishing, wireless games development and consumer marketing. The team brings experience from Sony, Psygnosis, Infogrames and Diamond Multimedia.
For more information, please contact Mandy Sharpe on 0161 827 8200 or m.sharpe@ifone.com
|
|
|
|
