Via Aniway, the Independent Games Festival submissions for mobile are open for entry.

The Independent Games Festival is proud to present the first-ever IGF Mobile competition, a brand new contest set up to promote innovation in handheld games, from cellphone games through other mobile devices from Windows Mobile to Palm and beyond, all the way to [...]

This was posted already, but I finally had a chance to read through it.
It’s great to get a current snapshot of the state of affairs in regards to Flash Lite (as related to keitai culture) in Japan, and some of the ways it is being consumed there.
You can the info here, in DC’s [...]

A while back, I found a free MIDI music and sound composer tool called Easy Music Composer Free.
Although it’s not the most robust or reliable tool out there (the UI is way kludgey/homegrown and it does have a few bugs here and there … not to mention the free version is limited [...]

If you are creating Flash and/or Flash Lite (casual) games, this may be of interest to you:
www.ugenGames.com
They just launched, and you can check out their official press release.
What is ugenGames, you ask? In their own words …
“ugenGames is a pioneering online free portal for players, developers and graphic designers allowing them to [...]

Would you like that chicken extra crispy or regular? … apparently, not extra crispy in Chickn 2Go, a new Flash Lite 2 game.
Speaking of which, I have a new review of this Flash Lite 2 casual game over at frame27 (the place for Flash Mobile Game Reviews).

Although it has a couple areas to be [...]

Via Matt … the Adobe MaD (Mobile and Devices) team is hosting a seminar on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time on Designing & Developing content for Sony PSP using Flash.
Chris Blair and Jeff Musz from Zodal will be the speakers.
If you haven’t already checked out their title, “Rob and Big - [...]

If you plan on submitting any Flash Lite games (for the casual category) to this year’s IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards) contest, the deadline is September 24th 2007 at 6:00 PM Central European Time.
Some of the sponsors for this year are Nokia, Qualcomm, and of course Adobe as well as Nvidia, Movida, AMD, Bella de [...]

I have a new Flash Lite game in the works … “Bird-z on a Wire”.
Coming Soon

Christopher Caleb created a game review application/magazine using Flash Lite. It is very cool and you should check it out.
Here’s what he had to say about it:
“It’s called GamesFlash and is completely free to download.
Currently it supports Symbian Series 60 3rd edition devices with a screen resolution of 240×320. It’s basically a games [...]

I caught this off Engadget … Samsung has put in a patent for a one piece mobile game joystick. Basically, the device itself acts as a joystick once “transformed”.
A few months back, I had posted about Zeemote™ (mobile “joystick”) (they have an external add-on device) … interesting, in it’s own right.
Personally, I like the one-piece [...]