Dojo launches multiplayer free mobile games
And you can play them on PC, too
Dojo Media has launched a new service called Dojo, offering free mobile games that you can play against other mobile and PC users.
Its first game is called Cubed Addict, a match-three puzzler that lets you send obstacles to your opponent's screen when you make good matches.
The service has been in beta for a month, and is already generating 10,000 multiplayer sessions a day. It works on Java handsets, and the Dojo app was released on Android last week.
According to co-founder Jamie Conyngham, an iPhone version is on the way in the first few months of 2009, along with the second Dojo game, Badlands 2.
"It's cross-platform, it's free and it's global," Conyngham tells PocketGamer.biz. "We haven't seen anything like it before."
Dojo is free to register for and use (apart from data charges, obviously). The company plans to make money from advertising, and also from micro-payments, where players buy virtual 'Coins' to enter tournaments and buy game power-ups.
The technology is based on that of Australian firm Viva La Mobile, which was one of the first companies to ever launch multiplayer mobile games - the original Badlands was available on 3 here in the UK for a while.
For more details, check the interview with Conyngham on PocketGamer.biz. Want to sign up? Head to http://thedojo.mobi on your PC or mobile.
