VW has collaborated with Fish Labs to create an edutainment game based on driving smart rather than driving fast.

NAVTEQ has announced the twelve finalists of the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge.

Another fifteen cities have been added to the list of places that Foursquare's mobile app turns into a location-based game.

London has been added to the list of cities that Foursquare's mobile app turns into a location-based game.

Yahoo! has announced that Flickr, Fantasy Football and Yahoo! Finance are now available for iPhone.

The makers of the just-released foursquare are aiming for more success than they had with their previous mobile social networking app, Dodgeball. Judging by early response to trial runs in twelve American cities, foursquare is getting there.

Who would have thought that a device as small and humble as a mobile phone could become a portal into any number of parallel universes? But that's what has been happening since the advent of location-based games. Christopher Backeberg goes on a location-based gaming binge in the name of "research"  ...