
The hand-held space is a pretty interesting avenue of gaming right now. While hand-held gaming has never been more popular, the competition has never been greater.

The hand-held space is a pretty interesting avenue of gaming right now. While hand-held gaming has never been more popular, the competition has never been greater.

Looking back, I just realized that I’ve been a loyal Nokia user all these years. (ahem-ahem, Nokia marketing peeps). I owned a total of 10 Nokia phones. Whew!
Here’s a short evolution of my personal phone purchases/acquisitions, how I started and what I have today (the N-77, which I plan to upgrade soon).
Without further ado…

Two of my good friends, Meng Morales and Chinkee Buencamino asked me to help them promote their company’s latest mobile content, Alodia Mobile Downloads.
Who am I to resist the charm of 2 pretty ladies? So I trooped to their launch dinner a week ago and managed to meet (again) Alodia.
Details and more photos after the break…
Whew! It’s been a hectic couple of days for me. First, me and my new Brand Manager for Crazy Kart, Jeff, together with our ever-dependable guys from marketing services had to cram a lot of work to prepare for our press-launch: which we did today at the National Sports Grill in Greenbelt, Makati
Thank goodness everything went out fine. In fact, Gabby Dela Merced, the country’s top female racer (iRL) even graced the event to show her support for Crazy Kart. Anyways, I wasn’t able to get photos… but our official photographer, Michelle did! More about that (with LOTS of photos) in a separate post, ok?

Meanwhile, most of the tasks to prep for the event were done using my mobile phone. Instructions were just a text or call away. I couldn’t have done half of what could’ve been without my trusty mobile.
With more and more people having access to cheaper gadgets like the Nintedo DS Lite , or the Sony PSP
and almost everyone and his brother have new, colored mobile phones; mobile gaming is now becoming more popular.
I just purchased my PSP 2 years ago and I’m still having fun with it. But with all the work, I don’t game that often anymore. However, most of the people here at the office are sporting a Nintendo DS and they’re always asking me to cross to the “dark side” and be a convert. With all the networked games available for the DS and the “fun factor” too, I really am considering getting myself a DS this year. Of course, I have to pay for my TV first.
With that in mind, let me share with you the top 5 places where you can indulge in mobile gaming.

…after one more click, milord.
In a study conducted by I-Play, a wholly owned mobile subsidiary of casual games company Oberon Media, of 1,000 online casual games players visiting partner game sites, they found out that casual game players are more likely to play games on their mobile phone.
This is good news for first-movers like our Level Up Mobile platform.
Here are key stats according to that survey:

Here’s another FIRST in online games and MMORPGs!
Level Up in cooperation with the Philippines’ biggest telecommunications company, Smart, is proud to announce LEVEL UP MOBILE!
For Smart subscribers, just text LEVEL UP to 299 to download the Level Up Mobile Menu. With the service, gamers can do the following:
Here’s a video of the service:
After the jump, I’ll discuss more details about Level Up Mobile