Hutchison 3G today announced partnerships with nine games development companies; iFone, It’s Alive, Supedo , nGame, Codetoys, Simian Industries, Morpheme, Cheeky Wireless and Purple Software. Under these agreements a range of new and classic arcade style games, as well as traditional board and card games, will be available through Hutchison 3G’s multimedia services later this year. These agreements cover the supply of over forty games, to all international markets where Hutchison Whampoa has 3G interests. Many of the interactive games will be written and developed exclusively for Hutchison 3G; others will be improved versions of existing games. Lisa Gernon, strategy and marketing director at Hutchison 3G commented: “3G offers an exciting new gaming platform for everyone’s pocket. Hutchison 3G is focused on offering quality content in this new format and this is why we have carefully selected partners with the expertise and creativity to deliver compelling gaming experiences.”Joe Dever, head of games at Hutchison 3G, will be at E3, Los Angeles, 21-23 May . 

Sendo announced that first wave of applications are being developed by third party developers for the Sendo multimedia Z100 Smartphone. The applications being developed range from well-known games like Versaly. The Untouchables Pin Ball, various titles from Germany based Mobile Scope and Midway smash hit arcade classic Defender, to business applications like Word, PowerPoint and Excel viewers. The Z100 Smartphone large colour screen and the processing power of the device make it an ideal phone for games and multimedia entertainment. Sendo expects to be able to offer at launch games like The Untouchables Pin Ball and a range of games from Mobile Scope. The Swiss company Incagold is porting their award winning Slamtilt, pinball machine. Ideaworks3D will introduce its critically acclaimed Rebound! This is the first in a series of games using Ideaworks3D Segundo mobile gaming middleware, which is being used by leading game publishers to bring a large catalogue of major gaming brands to the Z100 Smartphone. As part of their wireless gaming strategy, mobile entertainment company Terra Mobile-iobox will publish Midway s retro classic Defender for the Z100. It is anticipated that more titles are to follow this year, with increased wireless functionality. US based Hexacto, also developer of Versaly The Untouchables Pin Ball and Terra Mobile-iobox Defender has fully committed to the platform and plans to release 20 Smartphone titles, among them a multiplayer Casino game, Tennis Addict and Ring a Bell a multiplayer trivia game show based on ring tones. Other games Sendo expects include Pixel Technologies Mobile Play, an online multiplayer games pack powered by Pixels JIVE technology. The games pack includes multiplayer Chess, Checkers, Poker, Spades, Backgammon and Reversi, all of which are compatible and playable on multiple platforms via Pixels JIVE servers.