Electronic Arts is making serious strides the become a dominant player in the casual and mobile games industry. Its biggest move to date was purchasing PopCap Games for $750 million. Yesterday, EA announced another acquisition. This time, Bight Games joins the EA family.

Finally, my favorite TV show House MD is being made into a video game! Unfortunately it is only a mobile phone game, but it’s a start.

House MD the mobile game was created by Exelweiss, a Spaniard based company, and was published by Mobiground. I’m not sure of the exact date it came out, because most of the info for the game is in Spanish and not clear, but it looks like it came out in April. It’s a graphic adventure game that allows you to roam around the Princeton-Plainsboro and freely talk to people about your case.

Apple has finally decided to release an iPhone software development kit (SDK), allowing companies to create applications for the phone. The beta version of the SDK is already in developer’s hands and the full version is expected to be released June 2008.

After Apple made the SDK’s announcement at a press conference last week (March 6, 2008), Apple’s VP for iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, demonstrated a space game (Touch Fighter) developed in only two weeks (“and only 10,000 lines of code”), promising touch controls and tilt-sensitive steering.

Perhaps an effort to help the expensive hardware more attractive to a larger audience, game companies have already been…