Left Jab! Right Hook! Step Into the Ring on Your Cellphone Screen

Two new products from Sorrent, a company that develops video games for wireless devices, are not the first real-time multiplayer games for head-to-head action on cellphones. But the games, Fox Sport Boxing and Fox Sport Racing, may be the most sophisticated, according to the New York Times.

"The new games use a mobile persona, a tiny avatar that represents a player visually and can acquire skills and status as play continues. In the boxing game, for example, each boxer wears the player's avatar face. As a player uses the cellphone keypad to unleash jabs and body blows, his phone's screen shows the effects on the image of the opponent.

In the racing game, opponents' cars, tracks and pit crews are visible.

In both games, play continues even if a call is dropped, with a computerized look-alike guided by artificial intelligence stepping seamlessly into the place of the disconnected opponent."

emily | 2:34 PM | SMS and Gaming |
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