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Digital Chocolate Officially Launches Cafe Series

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Digital Chocolate has officially launched its DChoc Cafe Series, and claims that carrier launches are underway for more than 100 operators. In addition to the previously announced Nokia Ngage launch it claims games in the series are already available on 3, AT&T and T-Mobile. Future operators include Sprint, Alltel, O2, Telefonica, SFR, Telecom New Zealand, Telstra, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile, and handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson is also mentioned. The basis is games that can be played individually (the starting line-up includes Sudoko, Kakuro, Hold’em Poker, Mahjong and Solitaire) and the site lets you create a personalized avatar to represent you as well as form exclusive cafes and invite friends to join, and win points are to unlock bonus items for characters and upgrade the community cafe. It’s a pretty wide-ranging launch but Digital Chocolate has been working on this for a long time, and it covers found Trip Hawkins’ mantra that mobile games should be social and casual—in this case casual games have social results. Whether this will work won’t be known until later…

Aug 6, 2007 11:55 AM ET

Posted In: Entertainment, Games

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