location based games

GPS Film introduces location-based mobile cinema

GPS Film
GPS Film, an open source location-based app developed in Singapore, lets users experience a place through location-based video.

DreamWalk makes a game of mobile advertising

DreamWalk Mobile treasure-hunt advertising
DreamWalk Mobile has developed a location-based mobile advertising application that adds a "finders, keepers" game element similar to the game of geocaching.

History Channel runs a Foursquare game

History Channel coming to Foursquare.jpg
The History Channel has set up a dedicated page at Foursquare to promote its forthcoming documentary series, America - The Story of Us.

Foursquare roots out the cheaters

Foursquare badges
The Foursquare location-based social network plans to use smartphone GPS systems to catch users who cheat on their check-ins at venues.

This LBS game comes with physical risk

Underworld SweetDeal
Trevor Hawthorn, founder and managing principal at Stratum Security, has warned that a free iTunes location-based game called Underworld: SweetDeal could expose players to physical as well as digital security risks.

Find a thousand things with Glu Mobile

Hunting for oddities with Glu Mobile
Glu Mobile, a global publisher of mobile games, has announced the availability of its 1000: Find 'Em All! location-based game.

Noticings turns photos into a game

Noticing a visited fire hydrant
Noticings, a geotagging app, turns photos into a game. Judging by some of the submissions on the Noticings website it also generates some amusing and creative photography.

Holiday LBS game from Gowalla

iPod Nano from Gowalla
Gowalla has launched a location-based game with prizes to coincide with the holiday shopping season.

Come back from the future with DarkOrbit

DarkOrbit comes to smartphones
DarkOrbit, a location-based game for GPS mobile phones, challenges you to find geocached virtual artefacts in real geographical locations and beam your treasures up to your spaceship.

Ghosts Attack in LBS alternative reality

Ghosts Attack in LBS game
Tarver Games is getting ready to add apps to the world's somewhat thin list of location-based fantasy games. The company has announced a game studio to develop games for the iPhone, and its first major production, Ghosts Attack, is due for imminent release on Apple's app store.