Into this new world steps Scott Nisbet. The company then developed games for family-room entertainment consoles such as the Sony PlayStation, then the Nintendo Game Boy handheld. Now at this February conference, Digital Eclipse is eyeing this new thing, the wireless Web. Nisbet, the company's director of wireless gaming, is here to find a way into the market. What's more, a wireless Internet comes with a straightforward source of cash.
Customers already pay for mobile telephone service.
Games can simply be added to the bill. Indeed, in Japan, millions of people are already buying entertainment services this way. Perhaps most promising, wireless networks are gaining the ability to track the locations of their customers by satellite and ground-based technologies, opening all sorts of possibilities for creative entrepreneurs. Nisbet's company has sketched out several games that take advantage of this capability. In one, Geonome, virtual creatures are superimposed on the landscape in cities and towns around the globe.