What! NBC to start offering wireless games? Bet you never saw that one coming, did you?

NEW YORK — August 9, 2005 — AEGF Mobile Games, a partnership between Abandon Entertainment and GF Capital Management & Advisors, and NBC Sports, today announced a partnership on an exclusive worldwide mobile gaming license to create NBC Sports branded games. Under the deal, AEGF will use NBC Sports content to create unique and challenging wireless video games available on mobile phones, many of which will be directly interactive with NBC Sports broadcasts. The announcement was made by AEGF Mobile Games Principal, Marcus Ticotin and NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer.

Among the first NBC Sports mobile games are themed games in golf, hockey, horse racing, poker and skiing. [Read the rest]