"John Glenn is sometimes credited as the first person in space or the first person to orbit the earth, which he wasn't, both those records belong to the USSR's Yuri Gagarin. Glenn is more often credited as the first American in space, which he wasn't, he was actually third after Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. More on-topic, the iPhone's supposed "first full blown" mobile web browser wasn't first at all, as a large selection of previous smartphone browsers prove, not least of which is the S60 OSS browser which uses exactly the same open source core as the iPhone's Safari, but the S60 version also has built-in Flash support.
So, with all that in mind, it wouldn't be surprising if we see a phone-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game from a major publisher appear over the next year or so, grandly claiming to be the first of its kind. Well, this reviewer has news for whoever comes up with it: they're way, way behind. The first ever phone-based MMORPG is already available, in fact it's been running since 2004. It's called Tibia Micro Edition, or TibiaME, and is the mobile little brother of the PC MMORPG Tibia."
It's huge, it's mature, it's online - TibiaME reviewed
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Krisse explores the TibiaME phenomenon and reviews the new S60 3rd Edition client. Is this, 'the world's first phone-based Massively Multiplayer Online RPG', also one of the best games of the moment?