Fishlabs crowned best mobile games publisher for Q4 2008

Fishlabs has held onto top spot in PocketGamer.biz's quarterly Quality Index, based on reviews of mobile games across some of the most popular websites.

The German publisher gained an average score of 8.48 from six reviews of its games during Q4 2008. Second spot was taken by Gameloft, followed by EA Mobile, HeroCraft and I-play.

As a reminder, it's based on reviews on seven websites: Pocket Gamer, IGN Wireless (back in this month after recanting on its iPhone-only reviews policy), AirGamer, Mobile Game FAQs, Handy-Player, JeuxPo and MobileXP.

Publishers with five more more reviews during the quarter are eligible for the chart. The Quality Index tracks regular mobile games, but NOT iPhone, N-Gage or Android titles - we'll be tracking those in separate charts.

Here's the full chart:

Publisher	Reviews	Avg Score
Fishlabs	6	8.48
Gameloft	44	7.98
EA Mobile	26	7.96
HeroCraft	5	7.70
I-play	20	7.59
Digital Chocolate	34	7.55
Vivendi Games Mobile	8	7.55
Player One	10	7.48
Disney Mobile	21	7.36
HandyGames	15	7.29
Glu Mobile	27	7.28
Hands-On Mobile / Connect2Media	19	7.16
Namco Bandai	7	7.14
In-Fusio	8	7.14
Player X	7	6.80
THQ Wireless	28	6.73
Capcom	5	6.70
Twistbox Games	12	6.41

We'll have the chart of the best mobile games of 2008 for you later today, as well as the overall publisher rankings for 2008, so stand by for those!