JAMDAT Mobile

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JAMDAT Mobile, Inc. NASDAQ: [JMDT], is an American video game publishing company. Their primary business is producing games for mobile phones. They have also produced other entertainment-related software such as ringtone applications, as well as games for other platforms such as PDAs and personal computers. JAMDAT produces games in a wide variety of genres, such as fighting games, puzzle games, and sports titles. Their most well-known products to date include their series of bowling games (JAMDAT Bowling and JAMDAT Bowling 2), a mobile conversion of the widely-known PC puzzle game Bejeweled, a conversion for Pocket PC of the PC game Worms World Party and their NFL, NBA, and MLB -branded games, in addition to holding the license for the mobile version of Tetris. They have relationships with all major North American wireless service carriers, such as Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular, as well as many minor North American and some major European and Asian carriers. They have offices in Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Tokyo, Hyderabad, and Honolulu.

As a publishing company in the wireless video game industry, JAMDAT's primary service is linking game developers, who generally develop the games from idea to playable software, with wireless telecommunications service providers or "carriers", who sell the games to their customers. To this end, they maintain strong relationships with major companies in both groups. In addition, they create, purchase, and maintain proprietary software libraries to aid developers with whom they have working relationships, a common practice among electronic game publishers. They also do the majority of the work regarding quality assurance for their games, and carry out most of the advertising and marketing as well.

JAMDAT Mobile was founded by Scott Lahman and Zack Norman, two ex-Activision executives, in March of 2000. They were joined in November of that year by Mitch Lasky, who had also worked at Activision, and is currently the CEO of JAMDAT. Since then, the company has grown at a rapid rate. JAMDAT went public in late 2004, and is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol JMDT.

On 9th December 2005, JAMDAT was purchased by Electronic Arts for $680 million. The new name of JAMDAT is now EA Mobile

External links

[JAMDAT company website] (Redirects to EA Mobile site.)

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