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The mercenaries are back, and they want payback!

In Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the mercenaries go to fight a war against a power-hungry tyrant trying to take over Venezuela’s oil supply.

Pandemic Studios will bring their game to the Xbox 360, PS3, and PS2 while I-Play working with Pandemic Studios will bring out a mobile version of the game.

All the console games will be released with the mobile version at the same time.

David Gosen, President of I-play said, “Pandemic Studios is a AAA developer, and we are excited to be partnering with them to bring the Mercenaries franchise to mobile. We are thrilled that Pandemic Studios has chosen I-play to expand the Mercenaries universe.”

Josh Resnick, President of Pandemic Studios said, “I-play is a leader in the mobile market with a successful track record of developing and marketing game franchises. With this partnership, Pandemic Studios is excited to have I-play bring the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames experience to life on mobile devices. We can’t wait to let our fans unleash Mercenaries-style destruction while on the go.”

The game’s ETA is Feb. 2008

Ah Hellboy, the demon child that grows up to save the world from evil… What a twist!

Fans of Hellboy will be rewarded with the release of “Hellboy: Science of Evil” on the PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 and even on your mobile phone around June 0f 2008.

The initial date of the release was sometime in 2007, but Krome Studios shows ETA and no dates showing for the release, currently, even thought their trailer shows 2007…

The E3 2007 game trailer looks like it’s for the PSP. YouTube commentors pretty much think the graphics look like its more for the PS2.

It does look pretty bad on YouTube, but I think it’s more due to the compression of the video, either that or its a PSP game trailer. Check out this video from Krome’s webpage link, it’ll take you directly to the quicktime vid.

Sony reps are now stating that the Indian Economic Times misquoted Jim Ryans about the possibility of a PSP mobile phone.

What’s interesting is that Sony Computers Entertainment Europe is working with BT to provide a VOIP-based phone, text, and video services to the PSP devices for European market.

You can read more about it at Strategy Eye.

Of course, you can make VOIP calls with your PSP, right now, if this You Tube vid is correct…

Note that the call is made with the PSP but it uses your regular phone to make local or international calls.

This PSP phone on YouTube, is it real or fake? Read what Jim Ryan of Sony Computer Entertainment has to say about the PSP phone, below.

The PSP is a wonderful portable gaming system and it’s even better with the new slimmer PSP model which allows you to watch UMD movies on the big screen, but the latest news is the possible release of a PSP phone!

In an interview with the India Times, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Jim Ryan said, “Such a mighty gadget is definately plausible.”

Jim also believes such a combination of the PSP with a Sony Ericsson wouldn’t be a problem. He says, “The Playstation is a proven success and so is Sony Ericsson. It is hugely intellectually seductive to have a console oriented phone.”

Read more on T3.

Back in May 31, 2007, Sony Ericsson had filed a patent for a PSP Mobile phone which was big in the media and blogging community. Read the india times article.

The Ratatouille rat is now mobile.

The game features a steerable rat with a collision system that works like a racing car in a drift course, only its a rat.

The release date is Jan. 2008 and will be released by THQ Wireless.

The popular and free web game Bookworm from PopCap is now available for mobile phones in the US and UK market.

Bookworm features on the mobile are:

• Classic and Action mode of the PC version.
• 140,000 word vocabulary based on the Oxford English dictionary.
• Tracking of all-time highest score and longest word for comparison with your friend’s score.
• 3 input methods for optimized experience on mobile phones.

Bookworm has been popular on the Blackberry phones since it was available in April and now mobile phone users will have the same fun that Blackberry users have been playing during those serious CEO meetings.

Bookworm is available for the UK for T-mobile users and all mobile carriers in North America.

Eidos has released the much anticipated IO game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for your PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as for your mobile phone.

It’s timed with the release of the PS3 and Xbox 360 release.

The mobile game has 38 levels with 5 different scenarios. The mobile version is developed by the Danish company Kiloo, which uses a simple effective menu system to allow you to switch Kane or Lynch’s arsenal between shotguns and assault rifles. You can also switch between Kane or Lynch characters while playing the game.

The graphics of the mobile game is top notch for small mobile screens and the action scrolling is smooth.

Controlling either characters (Kane or Lynch) with your mobile phone keys looks like its easy to use and looks to be programmed for easy use on the mobile phones limitations.

It doesn’t seem like a demo version is available…

Go to Palm and download Astraware Sudoku for free.

Install the “My Palm” software, select “Offers” option from the webpage and select Sudoku.

For those with a Wii, DS, or PSP: Sudoku

In a press release today, Qnap Systems, Inc. announced two multimedia applications for users of the PSP or mobile phones - Nokia N95.

The users can use their PSP or N95 to control streams from a Qnap server, via a home wifi system and play music from it.

The video, images, and music can be controlled by the handset and played on a TV or Hi-Fi system via DLNA compliant media players.

Andy Chou, the Product Manager of Qnap said, “Our NASes adopt the newest high-speed embedded 500MHz Cpu and 128MB DDRII memory. This outstanding hardware and software integration has surpassed other entry-level NAS models in the market. Users can benefit both from high-speed data transfer and many facinating features. For example, the built-in iTunes Server for music sharing, PHP web server with MySQL and SQLite, FTP server for convenient data sharing, and RAID server for data redunancy. We believe our multi-functional NAS series will deliver exceptional value for our users.”

Check out QNAP forum.

Industry experts have had high expectations for the mobile games market with profits in the billions.

New research by iSuppli show that the market has shown a 9% drop in the mobile game market. However, iSuppli believes it is only a temporary situation and expect the market to reach $6.6 billion by 2011.

More info on theregister.