- Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Santa brings free Chocolate games
SIX MADE-FOR-MOBILE games created by Digital Chocolate will now become free thanks to Greystripe. That's because they contain ads placed inside the game thanks to Greystripe's Adwrap technology.
Some of titles don't sound too bad. They include Johnny Crash, Night Club Empire and Rollercoaster Rush. You should be able to find them on any of the 20 sites which partner with Greystripe.
Save yourself time, however, by going to its own Gamejump site which claims to be the world's largest free mobile game portal.
You can judge what sort of ads you'll be forced to watch from Greystripe's list of major customers which includes Yahoo, Zagat, New Line Cinema and Progressive Insurance.
This could be the start of a good thing for mobile gamers because Digital Chocolate is the third major games provider to sign up with Greystripe after Konami and Vivendi Universal.
Greystripe says it can now offer 800 game titles from 90 different publishers which will run on over 1,000 handset models. ยต
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Games for phones that 'may connect to download new ads' sound a bit tricky to me, even if they themselves don't charge for that obviously.
Surely you meant "downright outrageous".
Compared to a PC, the connection speed of a mobile phone is a snail stuck in glue. Add to that the tiny screen size (compared to a 19" LCD) and not only do we get more obtrusive ads, but we also probably get the game obscured by the ad.
I'd be interested to know the amount of pixels devoted to ad space. I'll bet that it is largely 30% of the screen (there has to be something to read).
Can you imagine an ad on a PC screen that takes up 30% of the pixels ?
I certainly hope not !