What Role Will Mobile Play In Virtual Worlds And Media Convergence?
Mobile media’s an interesting topic. Different facets of the media space appear to be eyeing the mobile platform hesitantly, certain that they want to do something, but not quite sure what. Id Software just formed its own mobile gaming group with Fountainhead Entertainment, just on the heels of my conversation with Fountainhead’s Katherine Anna Kang — during which she pointed out that they’d found the quality of most mobile games was not what they believed it could be. A recent editorial at Games On Deck, our sister site devoted to mobile gaming, also presents the argument that, due to carrier conflicts, the mobile space has not yet reached a thriving point. There is a lot of discussion at present about how mobile access might expand the worlds of MMOs and virtual worlds, allowing different points of access to a media experience. Worlds in Motion spoke with Empire of Sports’ Christian Müller, who wants players of his sports-themed online world to be able to do exactly that with a cell
