Mobile games - they're an ongoing problem. I've been writing about them for ten years; longer, perhaps, than any other UK technology journalist. There have been some wonderful examples, up there with the better DS titles. But there has also been a lot of unforgivable s**t, contributing to a customer churn rate that would have a console games publishers in floods of uncontrollable tears. According to Nokia, 78% more phone users are downloading games than they were three years ago. But we're still looking at a tiny fraction of the Java phone userbase.

So anyway, I was at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome last week, and here's some of what I took away about the future of this much-maligned sector. (The joke around the summit was, if videogames are the new Hollywood, mobile games are the new porn industry - the slightly shadier, muckier step-brother to the real glamour player...)

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