Comments on: Handmark to Acquire Astraware

Handmark today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Astraware, the world’s leading smartphone gaming studio. Through the new relationship, Astraware will expand its existing UK games development studio to develop new high profile licenses as well as continuing work on original titles. Astraware will become the dedicated UK-based game studio for Handmark.

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Say goodbye to updates to older titles

hkklife @ 1/7/2008 4:43:09 PM #

Astraware has long had a reputation for not abandoning their titles and releasing periodic to make sure the old 'uns run on the latest hacked-up version of FrankenGarnet. EVERY Astraware game I've ever bought, all the way back to Zap! in 1999 or so, still runs more or less 100% on my 700p. That's no small feat.

Handmark, on the other hand, is still peddling titles (Monopoly, Scrabble) that were last updated back when the T|T & T|C were new. A firstclass title like Warfare Inc. could have been THE definitive Palm OS killer app but was instead left to rot on the vine and never see any additional updates or an official mission pack or sequel. And let's not even get into the travesty that is the Handmark/EA/Astraware Palm OS port of Tetris...

Farewall, Astraware. You will be missed dearly!

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: Say goodbye to updates to older titles