Nokia entered the augmented reality gaming market with a game called ‘Conspiracy For Good’. The game developed in conjunction with Tim Kring (the director of Heroes), sees players pit their wits against a corrupt company, using their Nokia device players can take on assignments in their city to help bring the company down.

Android owners have been able to enjoy natural feature recognition applications for sometime. Recently Zenitum where showing off their Space InvadAR game, but beyond that, for some strange reason despite developers having full access to the camera we haven’t seen a huge number of natural feature recognition games arriving on the platform

Every now and then an augmented reality concept will popup that you know will never see the light of day no matter how much you want it. AR Monopoly is a good example of what looks like a university project based around the famous board game.

Apple have opened up the iPhone camera API for developers, July promised to be an interesting month and we should see some interesting applications being made available. The first of which is Flying Legends a natural feature recognition flight sim

If you have played Pandemica or Arcade Reality then the game is very similar, only this time instead of pitting your wits against an Alien attack you’ll be fighting for survival against hordes of ghosts who’ll attack you with their ectoplasm.

The battle lines are drawn. Dig out your spray cans and spray your neighbours house with graffiti, team up with your friends to become the neighbourhood graffiti king.

Metaio recently released an augmented reality game for Nokia devices. Titled Zombie ShootAR, the game takes place in a world overrun with hoards of the undead who are intent on making you lunch.
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Space InvadAR is a game from Zenitum that uses an image of the planet Earth rather than a black/white marker as the playing surface, a nice touch it the planet actually revolves.

After posting yesterday about GigaPutt, Roger, one of our readers very kindly posted a comment that the iPhone is not the first platform to have an urban golf game.

Gigaputt is a game that takes place in your own neighbourhood, a game where climbing over your neighbours fence and wading though their flower beds to get your ball is all part the fun.

The new game titled Jigsaw Live takes advantage of new features added to the iPhone OS and provides the user with a constantly changing puzzle to solve. Unlike most jigsaws which are based around static images, Jigsaw Live uses the iPhone video camera to provide a constantly changing puzzle. Depending on how brave you are feeling your puzzle can be as small as 4 pieces or as large as 100.

It’s is nice simple game where you balance the egg for as long as possible by holding the marker in front of your webcam and prevent the egg from rolling off the board for the required time.

Recently Nokia launched Ovi Maps Racing for Nokia Symbian^1 handsets. The idea behind the game is that you use your current location to create a track around where you are using Ovi Maps, and then you can race around, trying to set the fastest lap times.

Today’s augmented reality games are a fun affair, shoot a few aliens, blow up a few planes, or put out a few fires all from the comfort for your own home. The only danger is banging your knee on a table as you turn around. But as technology gets more sophisticated and graphics get better, what are the implications of augmented reality games, will the technology make them to hot to handle?

Pandemica from XMG Studios is the latest augmented reality iPhone game that uses the camera and accelerometer to produce an entertaining arcade style shooter that you can experience with full 360 degrees of movement. Pandemica transforms your iPhone into a sub-field bio-scanner that can detect the invisible alien organisms that are around you.

Parallel Kingdom is a massively multi-player online role playing game that takes place around you. The game uses GPS to figure out your location and places the character directly in your neighbourhood where you can explore, declare war on other players or just fight the many creatures that live there