Video Game Pulse

Annabel Brog, our contact at Mobile Games company I-Play has just sent out the word on one of their most successful games. Their game Skipping Stone has just been added to the short-list for the ‘Best Made for Mobile Game’ category in the GSM Association Awards.

Skipping Stone is described as a “pick up and play” compulsive ‘one thumb play’ title. This is the fourth honor that has been bestowed upon Skipping Stone. Earlier this year it was included in The Chicago Tribune’s ‘Best Games of 2005′ list, IGN Wireless ‘Wireless Game of the Year’ awards, and took ‘Game of the Year’ at the Mobile Choice Awards.

“The 2006 GSM Association Awards have been specifically designed to showcase the diversity of products and services and the quality, ingenuity and level of innovation that combine to fuel the mobile value chain. Entries this year have again exceeded our highest expectations, reflecting the vibrancy of the mobile industry on a global basis. My congratulations on your successful nomination for the 2006 Awards.”

-CEO of the GSM Association, Rob Conway

As you can expect, I-Play is very satisfied with the news. “Being short-listed for the 3GSM Association Awards for the ‘Best made for Mobile Game’ category is yet another tremendous endorsement of the game and of I-play,” David Gosen, acting CEO of I-Play Began to comment. “This game is the very definition of ‘pick up and play’, with the distinction that once you pick it up, you can’t put it down. This is one stone that will be skipping for a long time.”

Every so often I actually get the scoop straight from the source for announcments on games and the like, while not a lot of them are huge breaking news stories, they are still news. Video Game Pulse’s goal is to try to either bring the news as it breaks, or report on news and/or events that just seem out of place. That is why today I bring you the following news.

Lets check in with our I-play Mobile Gaming Media Contact; Annabel Brog

It looks like its that time of the year again, time for CES and time for line-ups. Lets see what we got coming from I-play for the first quarter of 2006. The line up covers a range of genres from casual ‘one thumb gaming’ puzzle titles to the hugely popular sports and action / adventure games:

• Jewel Quest – Mobile adaptation of iWin’s hugely popular online puzzle game
• Torino 2006™ – The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Winter Games
• U.S. Olympic Team Ice Hockey – the only mobile phone game licensed by the USOC
• SlyderTM – the highly acclaimed and mind-bendingly addictive puzzler
• Boulder Dash®-M.E.™2 – the timeless and much-loved classic action-puzzle game
• “24″ – the genre-busting mobile game based on the global television super-hit series

Well, that is it for today from I-play, maybe we will get some copies of the game to review in our new and upcoming section of Video Game Pulse.