MUMBAI: Gameloft has inked a licensing agreement with Fox Mobile Entertainment to develop, publish and distribute the mobile game based on Avatar, Academy Award-winner James Cameron’s highly anticipated epic action adventure film.

With Avatar, the director of Titanic, takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination. The film delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make it, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

"With a riveting storyline and compelling characterization, Avatar: the Mobile Game will raise the bar for the mobile game user experience. Gameloft’s expertise in movie-based games, promises the Avatar mobile game will have tremendous appeal to both casual and hardcore gamers alike," said Gameloft senior vice-president Gonzague de Vallois.

"Fox Mobile Entertainment has enjoyed a successful relationship with Gameloft, and we have every confidence that the Avatar mobile game will display the same level of quality, creativity, and innovation that are hallmarks of Gameloft’s mobile titles," said Fox Mobile Entertainment senior vice president Andrew Stalbow.

Marking Gameloft’s third collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox. Avatar: the Mobile Game will launch at the end of 2009. It will be available on all mobile platforms worldwide.