Baseball fans can now get real-time updates and exclusive fantasy content on all teams and players in the MLB using their ever reliable iPhone. Zumobi and SportingNews.com today announced the availability of Sporting News Baseball, a free mobile application for iPhone and iPod touch users

With exclusive content from SportingNews.com, this new app gives fans instant access to scores, full standings, stats, MLB league and team news, player details, in-game updates, post-game recaps, and much more. Sporting News Baseball provides player rankings and projections for the upcoming season as well as access to exclusive news and Sporting News blog content.

Sporting News Baseball was previewed this week at CTIA Wireless 2009, and received the distinction of “Best of CTIA Wireless” finalist, given by editors and reviewers at LAPTOP magazine. Part of The Zumobi Network, Sporting News Baseball is free and can be downloaded at the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch users.

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A new game, X-Life games, has been heralded as the new era in encouraging cultural exchanges between Arabic, Persian, and English speaking cultures. It demystifies American culture and breaks down barriers that impede mutual understanding. Leveraging the latest in mobile technology, X-Life users in the Middle East and Gulf region will be introduced to American culture in a non-threatening and constructive manner.

“X-Life, the game, is a series of interrelated adventure modules which explore one idea – what unites us, rather than what divides us,” said Ali Reza Manouchehri, Chief Executive Officer of MetroStar Systems, Inc. “Middle East and the Persian Gulf youth will have the opportunity to experience the dynamism and vitality of American life. X-Life projects the fundamental values that Americans cherish: tolerance, freedom, and respect for cultural and religious differences.”

Prompting users to learn and use skills acquired through everyday experiences, each phase of the game allows the user to apply those skills to improve themselves and the world, all in a mobile application. This concept of cultural bridging embodied in a video game reaches across all generations, especially the current one being raised in an ever sophisticated and technological world.

X-Life Games was created for the public to use free of charge in an effort to bridge cultures. X-Life Games is not a single mobile game but a series of smaller, interrelated adventure modules that explore one theme. The players of this unique game will be able to select an avatar, earn and spend the game’s virtual currency, and progress through their X-Life while learning English through mobile handsets.

Reflections can be made of the user’s life path, including how they would have handled careers, family, and other phases of life. In each game, the player gets to “try on” a new X-Life and rise to the top of that game’s featured profession. X-Life Games is available now via download here.

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