PBA Bowling rolling onto mobile
You wait ages for one motion-sensing mobile bowling game to come along...
Nintendo might have started the motion-sensing bowling trend with Wii Bowling, but mobile firms are running with the idea.
We recently reviewed I-play Bowling, which lets you bowl and set spin by waving your phone around. Now it's getting a rival from US firm Concrete Software, which is releasing PBA Bowling next month.
It's based around the Professional Bowlers Association, and includes 11 of its pro bowlers, such as famous names (we're told) like Norm Duke, Pete Weber and Tommy Jones.
But it's the motion-sensing aspects that are most interesting. Unlike I-play's game, which uses the built-in accelerometer function of some phones, Concrete Software's game will use the phone's camera to detect movement, and so bowl your ball.
The company has form in this area, having released 3D Lawn Darts using a similar control method. Using the camera also means that the game's motion feature should work on more handsets than I-play Bowling.
Concrete Software says its title is getting a global release, so we're hopeful that the game will show up on UK operator portals sometime soon.
