Winners of the Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 unveiled
Nokia yesterday announced the winners of the Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest 2006, the multiplayer Java(TM) game development contest organized by Forum Nokia, the world's leading mobile developer program, and SingTel, Asia's leading communications group, for all Forum Nokia PRO members around the world. Launched in June 2006, the competition gives the winners and runners-up opportunities to offer their games for commercial distribution with SingTel and its regional partners, to more than 112 million subscribers in the Asia Pacific region.
Taking the top prize in the cross platform gaming, multiplayer gaming for the male segment and multiplayer gaming for the female segment categories were G-mode from Japan, Mauj from India, and Taito from Japan respectively, winning more than US$5,000 each in cash and prizes. Runners-up in the categories were Hungama Mobile from India, Activate from Singapore and 01 bit-side from Germany, winning more than US$2,500 each in cash and prizes. *
All of the games developed in the Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 are running on Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices.
Mr Philip Wu, SingTel's Director of Content Acquisition and Marketing said, "We are pleased that the recent Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 has brought the creation of multiplayer games to new levels and allowed fresh talent to showcase their skills. This collaboration with Nokia paves the way for SingTel to further leverage on our regional customer base for mobile content distribution and mobile commerce. We would like to congratulate the winners and look forward to bringing the games that they have developed to our local and regional subscribers."
"The SNAP Mobile platform, which made it so simple for developers to enable Multiplayer mode, has provided SingTel with an efficient and convenient solution by which to offer these exciting online multiplayer games to our customers."
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