From Canada.com:

As traditional video game sales cool, competition in the mobile market is heating up — and Canada is a major player.

Montreal is home to one of the largest mobile video game developers in the world: Electronic Arts Mobile. The company, perhaps best known for turning big-name titles — including Monopoly, Scrabble and Tetris — into cellphone games, employs more than 300 people in downtown Montreal.

Andre Lauzon, executive producer at EA Mobile, says there’s a "revolution" underway that’s changing the way we play, and it’s being fuelled, in part, by online marketplaces where cellphone games and applications are available.

Apple’s App Store, which celebrated its billionth download earlier this year, spearheaded what has turned out to be a global restructuring of the way games are being delivered.

"The iPhone app store changed a lot of things," Lauzon says. "Now success of the app store is being duplicated."

Earlier this year, Canadian smart phone giant Research in Motion opened the BlackBerry App World. Finnish phone maker Nokia has launched its Ovi Store. Palm, a U.S. company, has announced it will get paid apps in its store in September. And Google created the Android market for its mobile phones.

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