Fishlabs has done it again and brought home yet another Airgamer award, this time with Powerboat Challenge™. Our latest mobile game earned 93% from the testers at the leading German online magazine for mobile games. We now also have a hit in the sports mobile games category among the top 5 mobile games.

Besides the extraordinarily high-quality graphics and the excellent playability, the folks at Airgamer particularly liked the enormous game depth which Powerboat Challenge has to offer. Airgamer’s summary says, ‘Wet streaks of lightning in 3D with a wealth of variety and an outstanding look!’

The evaluation in detail:

• Graphics: very good
• Sound: very good
• Controls: very good

Pro

• Detailed 3D graphics
• Extensive career mode
• Racy feeling of speed
• Precise controls
• Numerous upgrades

Length of game enjoyment: long

Difficulty level: easy to hard

Dominik Hirsch, mobile phone game tester at Airgamer summarises:

‘Exclusively good marks are rare, but Fishlabs has earned this. The graphics set a new (Java) standard for mobile phones. This is primarily due to the very authentic water depiction and the brilliant feeling of speed. But even in scope and variety, the watery frenzy never compromises, and the style system, boosts, and upgrades will give you the need for speed and gaming!

There’s power in there!’

We have nothing to add to that and would like to thank the folks at Airgamer for this terrific evaluation. You can read the complete test at the following link:
http://www.airgamer.de/handyspiele/test/zeige/powerboat-challenge.html

Good news for mobile gamers in the east: starting immediately, mobivention will sell our mobile games through more than 20 local mobile network operators and other on-line portals. Many of our fans come from Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia (yes, we know that these countries are actually part of central Europe, not the east). Our mobile games may be available from our website, but we don’t support payment via mobile phone bill for all countries. For younger gamers who don’t have a bank account or a credit card, this is often the only way to pay for mobile games.

Specialist for mobile games in central and eastern Europe

Our new colleagues from mobivention have long been successful in central and eastern Europe with themes, wallpaper, video, and mobile games. For us, this is, of course, a terrific cooperation. Besides the direct contracts with local mobile network operators, mobivention also has an extremely competent team with lots of local employees. This is essential for smooth communication in the individual countries and, of course, also helps us enormously to understand the local conditions better and to respond to them. Thus, we will also offer our mobile games in more local languages.

And here is the complete list of the new sales regions for our mobile games: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

We are releasing our new 3D mobile game Powerboat Challenge™ somewhat earlier than planned. Starting today, you can get the game for your mobile phone from our website without download fees. Then it’s time to select one of the zany characters with a cool racing boat, and off to the starting line for the first race! Of course, performance will also depend on what sort of mobile phone you are using to play Powerboat Challenge™.

Graphics options also in 3D mobile games

Depending on the performance of the various end devices, mobile games run at differing speeds or in varying quality. In Powerboat Challenge™, the choice is yours. We have taken the quality right to the absolute limit of what is possible for Java mobile games (Java is the programming language that is used for most mobile games). If the game doesn’t run fast enough for you on your mobile phone, you can turn various effects on or off by choosing Options from the main menu and then Graphics. You may be already familiar with this from PC games.

Sufficient performance for 3D mobile games?

Some mobile phones are almost able to match PCs in terms of computing performance. The Nokia N95, for example, has a 3D-chip that allows 3D mobile games to run very well. But for racing games, what matters is high computing power for calculating the 3D physics. This is necessary, for example, to simulate realistic handling of the racing boats. If you have one of the state-of-the-art Sony Ericsson phones, like the K800i, then you are well-equipped. More than just the 3D graphics run very smoothly on those. They also have enough computing power not to lose their oomph even in races against three other boats. Then you can enjoy your Powerboat Challenge™ with all of the water, light, and wave effects.

One final tip: on some mobile phones, Powerboat Challenge™ runs a bit faster if the sound is turned off. So 3D mobile games aren’t quite up to PCs (yet), but you can’t stick a PC in your pocket

Game on!

Your Fishlabs Team

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Who says mobile games just cost money? Starting right now, you can win 200 Euros or one of four cool Fishlabs bags every week with our 3D racing game Coast Racer! All you have to do is test your skills with Coast Racer, and upload your best times to our server via SMS. The deadline for the competition is always Sunday at 10:00 PM.

In Coast Racer, you race a fast sports car along the French Riviera. The curving roads lead you through a picturesque 3D landscape with small villages and through typical well-lit open tunnels along the coast. We have kept the technical requirements for Coast Racer particularly low, so that the game will run on as many mobile phones as possible. You can also upload your best times very simply, right out of the game via standard SMS, because that also functions problem-free on older phones.

This is how to earn your easy money: download the mobile game Coast Racer from our website to your mobile phone for free. We also guarantee that there will be no download fees, because we send you the mobile game to your PC via e-mail. Then you have to connect your to the PC via Bluetooth or a data cable to transfer the game.

Then put the pedal to the metal on all the courses and drive your best times. Every time you set a new course record, you can upload the new best time to our server with a standard SMS (maximum 19 cents) right from the mobile game. You can then compare your best times with those of other players at www.coastracer.com. Then, every Sunday at 10:00 PM, we will determine the winners of the 200 Euros and the Fishlabs bag and inform them by SMS.

Gentlemen – start your engines!