HeroCraft, a Russian company with several mobile games published under its belt, recently announced development of Crimsonland: Mobile Massacre. A title that would've gone past your noses, Crimsonland was an old-school mindless shooter featuring heavy gore in 2D graphics.

The installment hitting mobile phones promises innumerable hordes of horrible creatures, a great amount of various weapons, inconceivable bonuses and other elements set to give anyone an adrenaline rush. Here's a list of features HeroCraft posted:

• Non-stop action
• 40 levels
• About 10 bonuses
• Over 30 perks
• 40 kinds of monsters
• Shocking music
• Rich vivid graphics
• Oceans of blood and heaps of adrenaline
• Two game modes - Quest and Survival
• World hall of fame

A character development system will also be implemented, transforming your hero into a slaughtering machine. Expect the massacre of mobile gaming when Crimsonland: Mobile Massacre hits phones come September 2007.

We know how it feels to be bored out of your mind when you're on the subway, or stuck in a boring meeting or class, which is why we continue to bring you the latest news on mobile games to help you get out of similar ennui-inducing situations.

So this time, we bring you yet another game from HeroCraft (same folks who brought us Ball Rush 2, Smile Lines: Winter Season, and Rise of Antares 2, to name a few) which allows players to explore the world of legendary invincible monks, as you take on the role of a young truth-seeker in medieval Japan.

Naturally, searching for the truth won't be that easy, as you'll encounter various enemies along your way. You'll have to go through the trials to be the best warrior of the Land of Samurai and ultimately, to learn the truth you're searching for.

Other game features include:

• sound, graphics and animation of the high quality
• 10 original game locations and 10 quests
• 4 unique characters, each of them has its own weapon mix – light, hard and remote
• About 10 types of weapon and armour, with three fighting skills of characters]
• about 10 parameters of the personage (including different weapon and fighting skills)
• A global map which helps to move easily through the game locations
• User friendly, well done interface
• About 4 game hours

Get to nirvana by checking out more screens in the full article!

HeroCraft has launched a new mobile puzzle game that will come in handy for people who will be spending the holidays alone.Smile Lines: Winter Season is a logic game where the goal is to organize a Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa party.

Sounds simple? In Smile Lines: Winter Season, you need to find a place for a holiday, prepare the party food and to round up and gather guests in time. The game poses enough challenge to stump Martha Stewart and the entire Queer Eye team.

There are several playing styles available and its increasing difficulty is designed to grab your attention away from the reality that you are as isolated as Scrooge. Smile Lines: Winter Season features:

• Attractive festal graphics
• Funny music
• User-friendly interface
• Four 4 different types of game

Smile Lines: Winter Season can be downloaded directly to compatible handset for €3.99 (US$ 5.27) from the Herocraft website.

Rise of Antares 2, an all-new turn-based space strategy game from HeroCraft, is back and its a very bitchy mood. The game is designed for all gamers with political ambitions bigger than Hillary Clinton's. As head of an interstellar corporation, gamers must take the reigns, set a successful plan and fight elections in order to rule the freaking galaxy. Oh and there's one more thing on the agenda: kick Star League Bureaucrats asses back to where they belong! Which is anywhere but your turf.

Rise of Antares 2 is packed with features to help fight for intergalactic dominance including:

• Full stepwise space strategy
• A diverse array of technologies
• Masses of different ships and buildings
• Easy-to-follow training system and a captivating campaign
• Game graphics to advanced interstellar standards

Rise of Antares 2 is supported by various handsets from Alcatel, BenQ-Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia Panasonic, Samsung and more.

MobileDragon 1.0 beta1 has just been released for PDAs and Smartphones. For those of you who are unfamiliar with MobileDragon, it is a cross-platform high performance real time 2D & 3D game engine written in C++. Features such as dynamic lighting, LOD systems, particle systems, character animations, and collision detection are all easily accessible through the C++ interface. Be sure to download the documentation as well for a full list of features and plenty of other information as well.

Download: [MobileDragon 1.0 beta1]
Download: [MobileDragon 1.0 Documentation]

HeroCraft, the makers of the well-received cellular game Ball Rush 2, is at it again! Only this time, they not only plan on dominating the cellular phone gaming scene, but the PDA gaming scene as well. The company has just released a game called Cake Press-- a new multiplayer tetris-style arcade game for mobile devices.

The company promises that the game will be able to let people come and play together, regardless of what brand of mobile phone they are using, or what smartphone is helping them organize their lives.

The only requirement is that all devices must have Bluetooth connectivity in order for players of the game to interact with each other real-time. In other words, there is just one word to describe this game - fun!

The objective of the game is to place three or more blocks of the same or suitable type in some kind of continuous figure. But that's not going to be easy for there are lots of enemies ready to squash you just like that.

This will surely be a big hit to those who have grown up playing with Commodore 64 or Atari, for the company promises that Cake Press will bring back those cherished moments of playing Tetris on the mentioned consoles. The game features the following:

    * 8 characters to choose from
    * 8 enemy units
    * 3 different gaming sets
    * 12 exciting levels
    * Multiplayer mode up to 4 human players can play through Bluetooth (different smartphone and PDA models supported);
    * 2 single game modes (Campaign and Freeplay).

Cake Press costs 4.95 US Dollars and it runs on Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian mobile devices.

Independent developer of games for mobile phones, HeroCraft, releases their latest mobile game: Ball Rush 2. With more action, more levels, and more fun than the original Ball Rush, this HeroCraft title won't demand you to break all the blocks in the lower levels. Your main goal is to keep going to the next level until you finally reach the top (a.k.a. boss) level. That's the only time you need to smash everything in sight.

Admirable graphics, dynamic backgrounds, 13 bonuses, and 13 block types make this 128-level title a nice game to play when you're trying to while the time away.