New Duke Nukem Mobile Games Available

There's a couple of new Duke Nukem games available for your cellular phones that you should be aware of.

First up is "Duke Nukem Mobile II: Bikini Project". This is a sequel to last year's Duke Nukem Mobile game. Bikini Project has new boss fights, new weapons and enemies - just more of what you loved from the original Duke Mobile game. There's a couple of good reviews online, too from Gamespot and IGN.

Here's some of what Gamespot has to say:

• "Duke Nukem Mobile II: Bikini Project stacks up as a worthy sequel to the original mobile alien mauler"
• "Keeps the action hot and heavy".
• "Duke Nukem can now takes to the skies using a jetpack! You also have a a great new weapon.. the flamethrower. It can easily dispose of large clumps of enemies.

Here's some of what IGN has to say:

• "Damn cool monsters"
• "Spot on gameplay"
• Duke Nukem Mobile II: Bikini Project brings back one of the toughest hombres for a repeat performance that will surely entertain fans of his rock-'em-sock-'em style of action.

If you want to read more about Bikini Project, you can do so on our website here, which also contains a list of the cell phones the game is available for, as well as screenshots and some other information.

The second game we have to talk about is Duke Nukem Mobile 3D.

This is a 3D Duke Nukem game for your cell phone. It contains much of the same hot action that was in the Zodiac Tapwave version of Duke Nukem 3D from last year. If you have a supported cell phone (see page for details), then you're not going to want to miss this action. Gamespot & IGN have some good reviews of this title, too.

Gamespot currently has this game listed as their #5 most popular Mobile title with a score of 8.2 out of 10!

Here's some of what Gamespot has to say:

• Amazing graphics, especially the character models; Some classic Duke quotes; Controls surprisingly well; Extremely hectic firefights
• Duke looks phenomenally good and packs some of the most frenetic firefights
• The game introduces new challenges at the perfect pace; you'll always be overwhelmed just the right amount.
• Duke Nukem will have you blasting away droves of aliens of various shapes, sizes, and levels of firepower.

Here's some of what IGN has to say:

• There is no shortage of content in Duke Nukem Mobile 3D. With 21 levels that can be played on multiple difficulty settings, there is some real meat here.
• The animations never seem to take a hit, and the framerates doesn't chug.
• I was pleasantly surprised to see how populated some of the levels can get

You can check out more about the title on our page for it, which includes screenshots, links, and a complete list of carriers and phones. Duke Nukem Mobile 3D is currently available for Verizon & Alltel in North America with Sprint & ATT/Cingular coming soon.

Posted by Joe Siegler at 7:03 PM

Updates for some older titles available

This news story will probably surprise some people. We've got an update available for two of our older titles, Crystal Caves & Secret Agent. Crystal Caves was released originally back in 1991, and Secret Agent in 1992!

These updates fix a problem that we were made aware of last month. On some computers running Windows XP, if you played the games, your system clock would be set backwards 100 years after exiting the game. This patch corrects that problem. There are NO other changes to the game than this, so if you're not having this problem, you don't need the patch.

The games are now available for sale again in our online store in either floppy disk or registered download formats. We have also reissued the shareware episode with this fix, as well as patches for the existing registered episodes of the games. Here are some download links for these various files:

• Crystal Caves: [ Shareware Episode v1.0a | Registered Patch ]
• Secret Agent: [ Shareware Episode v1.0a | Registered Patch ]

A special thanks go out to Peter Veenstra from the DOSBox crew and Frank Maddin (Crystal Caves' original programmer) for helping out in getting these problems fixed, so we can bring you an update. A patch for a 14 year old game, that has to be some sort of record. :)

Posted by Joe Siegler at 6:53 PM