Punch Entertainment Goes Medieval with Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords

Punch Entertainment, a developer and publisher of community-based mobile games out of Mountain View, Calif., today launched Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords, the first in a series of multiplayer turn-based strategy games. The objective of medieval-themed Reign of Swords is for each player to reclaim the imperial kingdom of Carrone through a succession of single player or multiplayer battles. Through tactics and strategies, players vie for various kingdoms, where titles of nobility are gained and lost, as players battle it out for supremacy.

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“Punch Entertainment, in Mountain View, Calif., has created "EGO," a game about, yes, an avatar called your EGO. You can dress it up then send it out to fight or befriend other EGOs. "EGO" took the prize at the Independent Games Festival Mobile for top innovation in mobile gaming”.

Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords is a deep, compelling turn-based strategy game that takes the core elements every gamer loves about Nintendo's Advance Wars series and then drafts them online.

Reign of Swords is a war strategy game set in a world of knights and sorcery where a once powerful empire has fallen into rebellion and chaos. As servant loyal to the empire, you must wage war to reunite the seven kingdoms, and perhaps gain your own for demonstrating undying loyalty to the newly crowned emperor.

When innovative companies start providing a compelling and unique experience to consumers on mobile devices, it will drive tremendous growth in the mobile industry. And it will create an industry much richer than it is today. Punch Entertainment's primary goal is to be one of the key drivers behind this next wave of growth.

The maker of Alter Ego wants to connect the world. They just may do that.

If you don't know the name Punch Entertainment, write it down somewhere. Put a sticky note on your monitor. And look for it on your deck very soon, because this company has a design philosophy that stands to weave some serious mobile magic.

IGN is "really hyped" about Punch Entertainment's old-West shooter game, Gunslinger. IGN says that Gunslinger is one of the most anticipated games of this year. However, we say why wait? If you're on T-Mobile in the US or have a Sidekick III, you can get it now. If you're on Cingular, you'll be earning your rep as a Gunslinger by late February or March.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - June 26th, 2006 - Punch Entertainment, Inc., a global mobile games studio with its own integrated deployment unit, announced today that Mr. Timothy F. Walsh has joined the company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Walsh was most recently the President of THQ Wireless and is one of the most respected executives in the mobile entertainment industry. He joined THQ in 1997 and held several senior management positions there including senior vice president of international publishing. Prior to joining THQ Mr. Walsh held various sales and marketing positions at Accolade, Time Warner and Capitol Records/EMI Music. Mr. Walsh holds a bachelor's degree from Loyola Marymount University and a MBA from the University of Southern California.

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Bam Koala: Jungle Hero
Punch Entertainment's fuzzy friend is definitely a friends of ours.
by Levi Buchanan

September 27, 2005 - At BREW 2005 in June this year, I had the great pleasure of playing a then-untitled game on the steps of a hotel in San Diego. After hearing little about the game for a few months, it was with a big ol' grin that I was able to pick it up again at CTIA 2005 today. Punch Entertainment's Tobin Lent handed over a phone loaded up with Bam Koala: Jungle Hero, a deliriously cute casual game that I think could be a sleeper hit.

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Tira gains another deal for its proprietary technology suite

Having recently implemented a range of additional features and improved functionality to its Jump Product Suite, Tira Wireless has announced a new licensing deal with mobile games developer Punch Entertainment.

The Tira Jump Product Suite has been licensed by a growing number of top-tier content providers, enabling fast deployment of products across hundreds of different handsets; adapting to specific mobile operator requirements in multiple languages.

Tobin Lent, CEO of Punch Entertainment said: "As a rule, developers don't have easy access to detailed device information and operator requirements. Tira Jump provides the knowledge needed to bridge the gap and let developers quickly adapt content to speed time to market, while enabling greater quality control over the process."

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