ONE from DIGITAL LEGENDS... and more

On Sunday I was listening GAME OVER a fully video-game dedicated program aired at ONA CATALANA radio station. They reviewed last E3 edition. It was really interesting. But the news that shocked me more was that a Catalan video-game firm, Barcelona's Digital Legends has developed exclusively for Nokia's N-Gage platform a fighting game play with cool beat-em-up features, called ONE. You can read a review about this game here.



This announcement made me think. Until now, the Catalan contribution to video-game industry has been minimum, contrary to other nations without state, as Scotland (Edimburgh's Rockstarnorth) or Quebec (Montreal's Ubi Soft). May be, we are facing something new. I really think that Catalonia has enough human capital to increase his share. A second thought was that the fact that ONE belongs to the mobile gaming world is really interesting since this area of video-games industry will increase his weight in the foreseable future, as many market reports inform. Having a Catalan game will be a good reason to buy a N-Gage device :-).

And More
I have mentioned previously GAME OVER radio program. Another media outlet that inform about video-game news and industry in Catalan is 3xl.net video-games section. If GAME OVER is addressed to mature players and stresses analysis, 3xl.net is a youth addressed web portal manufactured by the Catalan Public Television.

Today I've played two games. The first one has been a demo version of Tank-o-Box downloaded at Felix (see previous post) Mac. It is a game for kids, and, yeah, it's nice. The other game has been Ubi Soft's Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30. This game is a superb, although it seems laughable the fact that a "brother" killed in action in a previous chapter, is in good shape in the next chapter. I have made my own rules: in order to advance to the next chapter, all my men must survive. That's really tough.