A semiconductor company MediaTek and a French mobile gaming firm Gameloft have partnered to support the gaming applications available on MediaTek’s smartphone platform applications.

Gameloft has also allocated dedicated R&D team and resource for the development of games that will run on MediaTek’s mobile phone platforms.

The two companies have patnered to offer games supported by MediaTek’s mobile platforms that can meet gamers’ demands of speed and multimedia features, the company said.

MediaTek announced that its new single chip application, the MT6255, which will come pre-loaded with Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Gameloft’s racing game, as well as trial versions of three other games, Block Breaker 3, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, and Brain Challenge 3 : Think Again!.

Regarding the new partnership,, of MediaTek president Ching-Jiang Hsieh said with the rapid development of mobile Internet applications and services, mobile gaming has become one of the value-added service and application in the mobile Internet industry today.

"With MediaTek’s strong platform customization and Gameloft’s cutting-edge game development capabilities, together we will be able to bring even more value to mobile phones, thereby increasing the competitive edge of our customers among mobile phone industry," said Ching-Jiang Hsieh.