Handango, the leading provider of smartphone content, has released its 2006 Special Edition Yardstick, a year end global report on the state of the smartphone content industry. The results clearly show that Aces Texas Hold’em® from Concrete Software had a winning year. While over 11,000 new software titles were added to the Handango catalog last year, only one game, Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit appeared as a Top 10 best seller.

The Special Edition Yardstick reports on key smartphone metrics including top selling applications from Handango’s catalog. This information is presented for each of the five major smartphone platforms: BlackBerry, Palm OS, Symbian OS, and Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone. Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit appeared in the Top 10 lists for BlackBerry and Smartphone, and in the Top 25 lists for Palm and Pocket PC, proving its popularity with device users across platforms. Aces also appeared in the BlackBerry Top 10 list in 2005. Continue Reading »

Social gaming has been a growing sector in mobile games with lots of buzz around multiplayer games. The new Multiplayer Aces Texas Hold’em incorporates a rich game play experience that allows you to connect and play in an online community one of the hottest games on the market. The game utilizes cutting edge GPS technology that can be used for locating nearby players and joining them at a virtual table. Included in the game are many features such as live chat, a number of different sized tables including various stakes and blinds, statistical analysis of a user’s results, as well as tracking of high scoring and many, many more features.

Since early in 2004, Concrete Software has been selling poker games and applications under the Aces brand name. Multiplayer Aces Texas Hold’em is an off-shoot of the popular Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit poker game which has sold over a quarter million copies to date.

3D Constructo Combat is a three dimensional, Bluetooth multiplayer game that lets users compete against one another or a computer player in one of ten different 3D environments. 3D Constructo Combat is a strategic game unlike any other on the mobile market utilizing new phone technologies such as 3D rendering and Bluetooth. The object of the game is to erect structures while keeping opponents from doing the same. Players choose from a selection of weapons to help them demolish their opponent buildings. The player who constructs the tallest and most number of buildings wins the game.

At this time 3D Constructo Combat runs on many of the newer mobile phones that support 3D including Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia phones, and more.

Concrete Software is partnering with Handmark®, a global leader in mobile media, to offer its award winning title Aces Texas Hold’em™ – No Limit for inclusion in Tetris® Game Pak 2.

“Concrete Software sees this type of partnership as a unique opportunity to participate with a major vendor on the retail level. In addition, by including our world-renowned Aces Texas Hold’em poker game we will be able to reach customers we may not otherwise have had access to in our current sales channels,” said Keith Pichelman, CEO of Concrete Software.

In addition to Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit, the new Tetris Game Pak 2 contains many other top games including the Tetris® game and Jamdat Bowling.

The game pack will be released for sale through major retail channels and has been designed to be cross-compatible on a wide range of platforms. The titles included will support the BlackBerry handheld, Palm OS devices, Pocket PC, and Window Mobile Smartphones including Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. This extensive cross-compatibility offering will find a much larger group of users in the mobile retail marketplace than the traditional single or dual-platform offerings.

Aces Blackjack™ now joins the ever-growing line of popular Aces poker games. The game incorporates the standard casino blackjack game with a couple of twists. Players will now be able to compete against each other for high scores. In Aces Time Crunch the player is in a race against the clock to accumulate the most amount of money in a preset amount of time. In Aces Hand Challenge, players see how much money they can amass in a set amount of hands.

Since early in 2004, Concrete Software has been selling poker games and applications under the Aces brand. Its premiere product, Aces Texas Hold’em™ – No Limit sells on most mobile devices, with other Aces brand hits including Aces Omaha™, Aces Texas Hold’em™ – Limit and Aces Tournament Timer™ filling out the line. With stunning graphics and fun game-play the new Aces Blackjack™ game will be a nice compliment to the current line of Aces products.