Juiced 3D - 3D Mobile StreetRacing

Posted on December 2, 2007
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It is peculiar that illegal races appeared during the “prohibition” in the USA in the 1930s. it was the time when gangsters needed additional drivers’ mastery, because they frequently had to drop cops. The cars, of course, were slow and unreliable. Nowadays streetracing is a huge industry of tuning companies and even manufacturer companies.

Streetracing get more and more legalized. In Europe and the USA there are a number of official contests. It looks like the discipline might one day become an Olympic one.
On one hand it is good, because illegal racers are a great threat for other participants of traffic and pedestrians. On the other hand, the legalization of streetracing deprives it of that feeling of romance and adrenaline rush, because the police chase is an inseparable part of night races.

In the game I will write about you won’t have to fight the law. You will race in tough rides totally legally on specially created tracks. It looks like the way streetracing will look like in the near future.

The Gameplay

The fact that the game is a streetracing one, but not a rally is seen only from that you have personal contact with rivals who are going to challenge you and provide the possibility to load your car’s nitro system. The other attributes of streetracing – night and the police – are absent. It makes me depressed, but doesn’t make the game worse than its competitors.

One of the pluses of Juiced 3D is the presence of various game modes including Bluetooth multiplayer. It is much more interesting to race with your friend that compete with soulless bots. In order to race with a friend, you both must have the game installed, and both the phones must support Bluetooth. One of you creates a server, the other connects – that’s it!

The single player as well provides various modes: Quick Race, Arcade mode, Career mode. The most important is, of course, the latter. It is the career mode where you unlock new tracks, races types and cars. You can use these unlocked things in Arcade Mode. You choose track, race type and car. In Quick Race everything is random selected.

In Career Mode you can tune your car and see the statistics in between the races. In order to make your car more aggressive and increase its performance you have to earn some money winning races. At the beginning the prizes are not that high - $100. But the cost of tuning is appropriate, that’s why winning a few races will be enough for the first visual and performance upgrade. Each new bumper, spoiler or hood you install will make your car both more attractive and will increase its performance (seems like due to the increasing aerodynamics of the car).

There are a lot of streetracing kinds. 6 of them are represented in the game:

The simplest is a Standard Race. You compete 1 on 1 with your opponent. You goal is to drive 3 laps faster than he. No 2nd places, you win or lose.
It is similar to the next type of race – Solo Race. There will be no rival, just an implacable stopwatch.
Sprint is an analog of streetracing – straight road racing where your success is measured by your ability to shift gear fast.
Accurace Race (it is a speaking name) is the type of race where you have to rival, but you have to drive without touching anything.
Relay Race will be available only when you unlock at least one more car. You have to finish the race changing the selected cars.
Eliminator – the type gave the name to the game. The type is similar to Standard Race. It consists of 3 laps. After each lap the driver who goes last is eliminated from the race. It is peculiar that you won’t see all your rivals at once (it might be the graphic peculiarity of the game), but will overtake them gradually.

The existence of automatic accelerator makes the control of the car much more convenient. You won’t have to press gas constantly – the car accelerates automatically and you have to turn, brake and press nitro-acceleration button. Nevertheless the simultaneous braking and turning is not a simple issue. The gameplay facilitates the process because the cars are undamageable – the crashes only decrease your speed. It is better to overtake your opponent right from the beginning of the race and later on try not to crash in order not to lose speed.

The Graphics

3D mobile races always please the eye and this game is not an exception. At the same time the advantages of Juiced 3D over the similar projects are not that multiple. The weather and day/night shift is almost avoided – the sky is always grey and the lightning conditions suggest early morning or afternoon. Nevertheless, the landscapes are superb – it is various buildings etc. The background has a number of layers which makes the landscapes look better. In options you can which the screen to the horizontal position which makes you see the race better, but also complicates controlling your car. Cars are good. During a race you see ¾ of the car. You can admire the tuning of your supercar before and after a race, in the garage. You can rotate it. Although the car resemble the existing models they bear neutral names: Veloauto, Tormenta etc. The car moves according to the speed and installed equipment – the physics in the game is realized brilliantly. The number of special effects is poor and the only peculiar of these is the flame coming out of the pipe when nitro is pressed. The game heroes are good. You can see clear detailed faces on avatars.

The Sound

There are two very similar tracks in the game – the first in the menu, the second – during a race. It is hard to say if tranquil and calm music is appropriate for cruel races, but it doesn’t tense – after some time you just stop paying attention to it. All the major “racing” sounds are present in the game – crash sounds, braking sounds in turns, nitro sound etc. The only thing that is missing is the roar of engines. The vibration works in crashes and nitro-accelerating.

The Conclusion

I wouldn’t say that Juiced 3D is something out of ordinary. It is just an ordinary modern 3D mobile races. The major pluses – the multiplayer and various modes. The minuses – complacency, low realism and minor control problems. But in general these disadvantages of the game won’t disturb the fans of races enjoy it.

Scroll-Shooter with Explicit Background Images - Erotic Galaxy 2

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Scroll-Shooter with Explicit Background Images - Erotic Galaxy 2

Posted on November 19, 2007
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HeroCraft announces the release of the scroll-shooter “Erotic Galaxy 2.” The major difference of “Erotic Galaxy 2″ from the similar shooters is the erotic backgrounds. What can distract a team of a space fighter while fighting for their lives? Of course, the site of a few stunning girls in minimal clothes or even without any.

The decision to take the girls with them might have been a mistake, but now it is too late to change anything. All you can do now it to pull yourself together and concentrate on certain combat solutions and carrying out certain tasks.

These tasks are quite numerous – alien worlds, dangerous asteroids and the attacking extraterrestrial space fleet. Only the absolute synchronism of precisely calculated maneuvers and sniper shooting will b able to save the spaceship that is lost in the depths of the space. Nevertheless, the naked beauties will help you release the tension in short moments between the battles.

Game peculiarities:

The best girls in most explicit poses
Dozens of various levels full of asteroids and alien battleships
Record table
Brilliant graphics

You Won’t Believe Mobile Gaming Market Gets That High

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You Won’t Believe Mobile Gaming Market Gets That High

Posted on November 11, 2007
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The number of mobile phone users who will want to download at least one game on their device will become twice as big as it is now by 2009. The recent figure is 460 mln. The data are provided by HITechBlog with the source being the research company Juniper Research (the UK).

The most significant growth is going to take place in the developing countries, in particular according to the experts’ expectations in India its number will grow 4 times as big as it is now to 40 mln users.

The predicted sum of the total revenue of the industry in 2009 according to the analysts’ expectations will be around $10 billion versus the current $5 billon. In comparison to 2006 the market has grown by 61,3% and the company claims that by 2011 the market of the mobile gaming will overcome $57 billion.

The major tendencies of the market are:

The increasing interest in 3D-graphic-based applications
Games taking over ringtones in the segment of mobile content

At the moment in the majority of west European countries the number of game downloads has overtaken the number of ringtone downloads.

The most promising market for mobile games is the Chinese and South-East Asian market. The market is expected to grow 2.1 times from $2.7 billion in 2007 to $5.7 billion in 2012.

The total revenue from advertisement in mobile gaming will grow from $90 million in 2007 to $1.2 billion in 2012.

Juniper Research is a research company which focuses on the research of the area of mobile and wireless technologies. The company was founded in 2002. The headquarters are situated in London.

According to HITechBlog the cost of Juniper Research’s report on the mobile gaming market makes from $3000 (individual user) to $6000 (corporate license).

Now You Can Have Old Tetris With New Features

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Now You Can Have Old Tetris With New Features

Posted on November 7, 2007
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Pyramids, pharaohs, scarabs, lotuses… - it is the mysterious Egypt. It beckons by its unsolved mysteries and invites you to take plunge into the world of myth and enigma. Don’t even try to resist it! Let yourself get absorbed by this magic world and build a wonder of your own. It is not that easy to do: the blocks of different shape and color fall faster and faster! Listen to the advice by the marvelous priestess and feel a pharaoh.

The legendary logic game got even more colorful and captivating. The unique design in the style of the ancient kingdom of great pharaohs draws in by its realism and incredible graphics. The bright color spectrum of the falling figures won’t let you be bored.

The peculiarities of the game:

The new rules: disappearance of the one-color combinations horizontally and vertically
The personal adviser: gives tips and hits while the gaming process which helps you get to the higher levels
Bonus figures: surface, deep, coloring bombs – the games gets an opportunity to explode and color the blocks
Online Ratings: the best players beside the game points get lotus flowers, scarabs and prize medals
Enchanting music and magic sounds of ancient Egypt
Multi-language support: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian
Free distribution with subscription

Genre: logic

You can download the game free at the wap-site http://wap.mobilearena.ru/netris

Establish wap-connection with the address and save the downloaded application. You can use the link unlimited number of times.

Nokia Launches Independent Artists Club

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Nokia Launches Independent Artists Club

Posted on October 30, 2007
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The Singaporean band Manifesto Mephisto which tops the IAC chart at the moment October 24 - the company Nokia launched the new web-page Independent Artists Club (IAC). A visitor of the site is able to listen to and download free songs and tracks provided by independent artists.

Such musicians play in the indie music stream (it is also called independent music which meand the independence from huge record labels). The site features rock, pop, hip-hop music anf other genres.

The owners of Nokia phones can download up to 10 tacks per month (the owners of Nokia devices will get another bonus when the tracks will be available to download directly on the phones). The ones who want to use the service but don’t have Nokia devices can register on the page and get 5 tracks per month.

At the same time, the users can listen to the unlimited number of tracks online. All of them can be copied without any persecution from the official authorities.

The major goal of IAC is to spread indie music all over the world (but not only inside the local communities). It seems that the Internet and the widely spread AAC/MP3 format serves the goal (the bit rate of the tracks is 128 kbps).

Anyone can listen to the tracks on PCs or players plus they can make a melody a ringtone on their phones.

The site features the “most popular” list and all the registered users can leave comments and evaluate the compositions.

Moreover you can sort the tracks by the number of listenings, genre, country, alphabetically.

By October 24 the page had been used only by the Singaporean musicians and the musicians from the surrounding countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, which explains a great number of the tracks by Asian artists.

At the moment the companies are upgrading the site. By December the artists will be able to upload their tracks (still all the songs will be checked by the independent expert committee).

In the forthcoming three years Nokia is planning to invest $3 million in the project. The musicians, who upload their tracks won’t collect money for it. And this rule is certain.

At the same time the bands which will become popular will be able to sell the tracks at the online Nokia store (which is to open in 2008).

The bands that will be on top of the charts will be able to perform at Nokia IAC shows and thus will earn money.

The creators of the site claim:

“The club of independent artists is the centre of the Asian music. The spirit of independency moves the era of digital art. The site will be a real source of new emotion for the fans of music. And for those who create it – a source of spread and support.”

Top 3 Mobile Games: Age of Empires, Age of Heroes, Anarchy 2087

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