EA has announced its first eight titles as a mobile games publisher. As you'd expect, conversions of the company's major console brands make up a majority of the offerings with EA SPORTS FIFA Football 2006, The Sims 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 2006 and Madden NFL 2006 all figuring. Alongside these, EA has also transferred three casual titles - Poppit!, Turbo 21, and Tri Peaks Solitaire - from its online gaming service, Pogo.
From the screens I've seen, the console conversions look pretty impressive with sharp 3D visuals and, it seems, a few gameplay elements nicked from the latest PS2 and Xbox iterations. Bringing the Pogo stuff across to mobile is a smart idea - there are plenty of card and puzzle games available for Java handsets, but few will be as poslished and universally available as EA's.
All the titles will be playable at E3, and EA is promising 12 more before the end of the year.
