Eleven pay-to-play games for Web-enabled phones will be offered to Telus Mobility subscribers under deal with nGame Ltd. Under agreement, Telus Mobility will be first Canadian operator to offer Rat Race game to its users. NGame said Rat Race was first mobile Internet phone title based on major movie license to be released in N. America.

Oregon Scientific began shipping WavDJ complete home audio music production console that produces professional- quality recordings at $99.99. Stamford, Conn., company is targeting WavDJ at children and young adults. It said WavDJ could be attached to PC and linked to Web for downloading and uploading of audio files and musical compositions.

Random House’s Prima Games Div. will write, publish and distribute official strategy guides for first party Xbox titles under exclusive 2-year agreement announced Tues. with Microsoft. In separate announcement, Solectron Global Services said it signed agreement with Microsoft under which it would handle all aftermarket service support for Xbox, including warranty and out-of-warranty repairs. Financial terms of deals weren’t disclosed.

Arcade-style racing game Kinetica was released for PlayStation 2, Sony Computer Entertainment America said Tues. Company said Kinetica was its first title fully developed internally.

Video Display Corp.) reported 2nd quarter net income rose to $352,000 from $302,000 on 4.2% gain in net revenue to $18.8 million. VDC, which supplies electronic parts as well as CRTs and LCDs, said acquisition of Christie Digital’s CRT front-projector line would be “slightly beneficial” to 3rd quarter revenue, which will include about month’s worth of sales of Christie’s Marquee models.

Retailers attending PlayDate product showcase in N.Y. expressed confidence Tues. that upcoming holiday shopping season would be strong one, helped in large part by videogame category.

DVD rentals in U.K. have grown to 15% of market, British press reported. Rental share for DVD was 9% at beginning of year and is expected to reach 20% by year-end. U.K. DVD Committee and others attributed increase to greater number of titles available, rental price that’s same as VHS and influx of entry-level DVD players at $149.

Philips overall consumer electronics operations would have been profitable for 3rd quarter if not for U.S. losses, senior Philips executives told financial reporters Tues. Royal Philips CFO Jan Hommen, responding to questioner, said “we have a number of activities in consumer electronics that are doing quite well,” but U.S. market has been “the main problem.” He said Philips had “a very focused program” in place to address problems and had installed new management, studied retail positioning, reviewed production and all supply chains: “If we can solve the U.S., we have a very profitable business in consumer electronics.”

David Margolese resigns as Sirius Satellite Radio CEO, will remain nonexecutive chmn., his duties to be assumed by CFO John Scelfo and Gen. Counsel Patrick Donnelly until permanent successor is found… Takeshi (Tim) Harada, onetime CEO of Capcom USA, appointed Warner Home Video managing dir. for Japanese operations… Hsing Tuan resigns as AU Optronics pres., plans unknown. Webster Howard, eMagin technology vp, promoted to chief technology officer… Andrew Smith ex- LiquidWit, named Dolby Labs global brand mktg. dir… Transmeta CEO Mark Allen resigns after 7 months on job, replaced by Chmn. Murray Goldman… Charles Brown promoted to Office Depot CFO from senior vp-finance.

Ubi Soft Entertainment will publish Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Game Boy Color to coincide with movie’s DVD release this fall under agreement announced Tues. with Disney Interactive. In separate announcement, Ubi Soft said it would develop gaming titles for PlayStation, Game Boy Advance and GameCube based on Bear in the Big Blue House TV series under license agreement with Jim Henson Co. Ubi Soft has 4 years to develop games based on show’s characters and environments, and exclusive publishing rights for 3 years thereafter.