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Ronaldinho hits mobile for some street soccer skills

And developer LemonQuest has more Ronny goodness up its sleeves

Ronaldinho hits mobile for some street soccer skills

I didn't manage to visit Spanish developer LemonQuest at 3GSM this week, but I wish I had. The company was showing off a stack of new games, including some based on Brazilian footy ace Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho Street Soccer features seven-a-side matches on the streets, with 32 national teams and big-headed cartoon players, including an entire squad seemingly consisting of Ronaldinhos. Imagine the tricks!

LemonQuest has four other Ronaldinho games on its slate, too. Ronaldinho Gaucho Kicks has you booting footballs in what looks very much like a soccer-themed Zuma, while Ronaldinho Gaucho Goal! is a dribbling sim, complete with opponents who get in your way if you don't stun them with the football. Ronaldinho Gaucho Tricks is Tetris, except with more toothy Brazilian maestros in, and Ronaldinho Gaucho Bubbles is Bust-a-Move with colourful footballs.

While we'd prefer to see a few more footie-playing zombies in the mix, we like the concept of branding existing puzzle games with footballers. Do you think someone'll do it here in the UK with Wayne Bridge? Perhaps not.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)