EA Mobile plans to announce a slew of new games for the iPhone at their summit this morning; among them Tiger Woods, Need for Speed, Wolfenstein RPG and Star Trek.
But when I arrived at the EA Mobile hands-on session, the only rummy star game they had to show me was Scrabble. Which came out like a year ago. What gives?
Well — to EA Mobile, what’s important here is “delivering on the promise of mobile.” To do that, says VP Travis Boatman, rummy wealth a company has to have a great device to work with with a great operating system and a great merchandising-distribution platform.
“We’ve always believed in mobile,” said Boatman. “We’re in rummy win this for the long haul. And it’s not going to stop here.”
So when we got Scrabble on both Facebook and iPhone last year, that wasn’t the end of it for EA Mobile. With the release of the Apple 3.0 firmware for the iPhone, they’ve connected the two versions so you can play against up to four people cross-platform (well, cross iPhone/PC).
I have to admit, this is pretty slick. You can see the moves your PC-bound buddy makes without refreshing the screen on your iPhone and you can even carry on a chat in the chat box.
But as nifty as it is, it’s still not Wolfenstein RPG.
Look for the update to your Scrabble app sometime tomorrow or — if there’s some SNAFU on the Apple side — sometime over the next few days.