Defraxion, from the UK mobile games developer Black Bull Studios, promises to be one of the hottest mobile smart-phone games to be available starting 2007. 

North West England, December 18th 2006: Prepare to get defracted into what Black Bull Studios believes will be one of the most compulsive breakout games to be produced since the classic Arkanoid 1.  Only this time, you can do it on the move!

Defraxion, from the UK mobile games developer Black Bull Studios, promises to be one of the hottest mobile smart-phone games to be available starting 2007.  It is a 3D breakout game with a host of innovative new features that is expected to make it stand out in mobile entertainment.

In Defraxion, the gamer controls a bat to hit different types of bouncing balls against coloured bricks that make up a moving 3D wall.  Points are gained depending on which colour of brick is taken out of the game.  The designers at Black Bull Studios have incorporated some clever functionality that is intended to sustain game play.  Impact with any brick eliminates it but can trigger effects such as changing the ball type, its bounce characteristic or the release of an array of power ups.  During game-play, bricks can reproduce, move around or even create temporary holes in the wall to fox the gamer and challenge their score.

Perspective views, multi-axis bat control, real time rendering and a bewildering host of behaviours and visual effects are all designed to make Defraxion extremely addictive throughout its 100 plus levels.

The company has delayed its latest release until now because of additional work necessary to optimise the game’s underlying software engine.

David Hothersall is the director responsible for innovation and content at Black Bull.  He says, “The specification of Defraxion created earlier this year highlighted the need for increasingly sophisticated physics and the requirement to adapt skews for new and rapidly emerging markets.  We chose to concentrate on a route that would give us a supercharged product together with an engine that would form the basis of our 2007 portfolio.”

Defraxion is the first in that new product family from Black Bull Studios and it is available from today together with the redeveloped TalarisTM gaming engine.  It follows in the footsteps of the company’s ground breaking shoot ‘em up game, Destiny released earlier this year.

Hothersall continues, “We’ve crammed all sorts of new features into Defraxion such as fire balls, shrinking bats, bouncing sticky balls, opening walls and frantically random game-play.  Kids and old folks, male or female, all seem to get really hooked on the game, even after just a couple of minutes play.”

Defraxion is compatible with all smart-phones containing the 1St and 2nd edition versions of the Symbian S60 operating system and is released initially in English.  Other phone compatibility and language variants are scheduled for Q1 2007 onwards.  Readers should go to the Black Bull website to discover all the latest information about Defraxion - and download a fee demonstration.