N-Gage, the mobile gaming platform from Nokia, initially planned to be launched in November this year, was delayed again, after a first delay that postponed its launch for this month (December 2007). Although mobile gamers and Nokia fans were eager to try the N-Gage platform this holiday season, the Finnish company had to delay the launch again, the reason for this being some "unexpected difficulties", as posted on the official N-Gage blog. Most probably, the platform will be ready at the beginning of 2008 and, hopefully, there will be no more delays.

Nokia wants N-Gage to be perfect and tests every little aspect of its functionality, and after all it's better that the aforementioned difficulties were found before the platform's release. No one would like bugs or unexpected errors to ruin the fun, right? "We have been doing an internal run with more than 1,000 global testers this week, and during this process we uncovered an issue we feel we need to address. Overall, the games and service are working smoothly, but because of this issue, we feel we could not release N-Gage First Access before the holidays as planned," is stated on the N-Gage official blog.

The N-Gage service was first announced in March 2007 and since then all the mobile devices that support it were launched. These include Nokia N73, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N-Gage and Nokia N-Gage QD. Once launched, the N-Gage platform will allow gamers all over the world to download, test, play and buy games with their Nokia handsets. Various top games were announced to come on the N-Gage platform, so the N-Series owners have all the reasons to wait for the 2008 launch. Let's hope Nokia does everything right this time.