I'm a couple of days late with this, but what the heck, it's Monday morning. The organisers of the International Mobile Gaming Awards have announced their longlist for Game of the Year, 2006. This isn't your usual motley crew of dull console conversions and bubbly casual titles - it's a genuinely thoughtful collection of innovators, several making use of the promising Flash Lite platform, rather than Java.
Stuart Dredge of Pocket Gamer, has written a quick run through of the entrants, including some massively multiplayer titles and plenty of imaginative one-thumb experiences. Unfortunately, it seems several are from Korea and Japan and are therefore unlikely to launch in the UK. Also, any title that boasts over-the-air multiplayer is probably a no-no for Europe's complex mish-mash of competing operators, standards, services and languages...
