Please be advised that it's unwise to use your phone while driving. Or playing video games on your phone while driving. Or playing video games about maniacally wrecking cars while driving. That said, Electronic Arts is bringing its popular racer Burnout to mobile phones. The game is being developed by EA Mobile's studio in Chertsey, UK and according to the press release is expected to crash land in August for "all major [phone] operators." [Note: adjacent image is a mockup made by Joystiq and not necessarily indicative of the final product.]
Update: Video after the break.




















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If they want a game to work, they should mandate the quitting of all other programs so as to maximize performance. If people want to be able to access other apps, they're not going to want to play a racing game; let them play solitaire if they are between photo snaps. It would be cool to see a mobile game that was committed to being the sole object of your attention while you played it.
To take it to the extreme, maybe they could even turn off the cellular/bluetooth radios! But then why would you want the phone? But in all seriousness, the screens are getting prettier all the time on these phones (my father's new blackberry, as much as I hate it on principal, has a gorgeous glossy screen), so why not try to make a decent full-fledged game?
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http://psp.ign.com/articles/650/650814p1.html
http://psp.ign.com/articles/771/771152p1.html
and pathetic on the ds:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/673/673092p1.html
I'm curious how it will be on a mobile phone.
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No joke, since it seems to me that it won't be a Windows Mobile title (which, um is what the BlackJack runs), and would instead be something that gets released on the BREW platform (GetItNow, RightHereRightNow, EasyEdge, etc.), which makes for a wide audience, but in all honesty the only game I've seen released through Qualcomm's distribution platform that didn't suck was Tetris Tournament, and even that's a stretch.
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