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Mystic Meg gets mobile game

AMA bringing The Sun's astrologer to phones

Mystic Meg gets mobile game

Want to know the real reason why the BBC brought Doctor Who back? They needed something new to scare kids behind the sofa on a Saturday night since Mystic Meg stopped doing the National Lottery show.

Perhaps it's that sort of notoriety that's seen AMA, the application arm of the Guillemot brothers' gaming empire (Ubisoft, Gameloft, Guillemot etc) snapping up the licence to make a 'mobile gaming application' based on the astrologer's psychic work. It's called Mystic Meg's Palm Reader, and it really is part-game and part-application.

So, you get the Palm Reader bit, which gives you a personal palm reading based on your palm lines, mounts, hand shapes, finger types and thumbs (I'm not sure how this works, but it doesn't seem to be doing clever camera stuff).

There's a Tell A Friend section, which lets you share your new-found expertise with mates. Then there's a Coffee Reader section where you get to interpret signs and symbols in a virtual coffee cup, and Bocca della Verita, a daily fortune-telling tool giving you quickfire predictions about your luck, love and money.

Finally, the Puzzle mode is the most gamelike section, offering four picture-puzzles to rearrange at three difficulty levels.

Of course, without Meg's powers, we can't foretell the success or otherwise of the software, but we're sure one middle-aged English psychic will do alright out of the deal.

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.)