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Nokia Has Given Up on the N-Gage

There are some things out there that refuse to die and you don't know whether to admire their persistence and refusal to drift away with the tide or disapprove of the old man that won't let go of his empty existence. The Nokia N-Gage is one of them and, if there is a time for the long-forgotten to come back...

2 November 2009
04:24 GMT

Nokia to Kill N-Gage in Late 2010

Nokia's plans for the popular N-Gage gaming platform are rather bad news for users and fans. No more games will be published for the platform, and all titles will be moved to the Ovi Store, while the currently available N-Gage games will remain available for purchase only until September. Moreover, the N-Gage we...

31 October 2009
05:37 GMT

N-Gage-Enabled Nokia Phones Can Go Bowling Now

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and Vir2L Studios, a ZeniMax Media company, announced on Wednesday that a new mobile game was available for the Nokia handsets that supported the N-Gage platform, namely AMF Bowling: Pinbusters!. At the same time, the company also said that the title would soon become available via it...

18 June 2009
01:39 GMT

Age Of Empires III Now Available on N-Gage

The Nokia N-Gage has become an increasingly popular platform lately with a large number of Nokia mobile phones receiving support for the software, and with a wide range of games becoming available for them. The platform does not work only on the Nseries devices, but on other handsets as well, and more to support it a...

29 April 2009
03:52 GMT

Nokia Announces Availability for Nokia E75

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that the Nokia E75 mobile phone has arrived in stores, and that it comes to the market as the best efficiency and productivity solution Nokia has ever released. The handset is being shipped with a new email user interface, the first device to include it, providing ...

6 April 2009
06:49 GMT

N-Gage to Have Motion Control Games Soon

It seems that the first motion control supported games are making their way to N-Gage, and that the very first one to feature the functionality will be Bounce Boing Voyage, a “jumpaliciously fun” 3D classic title. For the time being, the game does not feature motion control, yet an updated version of the ...

24 March 2009
05:24 GMT

No N-Gage for Nokia N73, N93 and N93i

There is some bad news for those that own a Nokia N73, N93 or N93i. Although originally planned to receive an N-Gage compatibility, it seems that these devices will not sport support for the popular platform after all. Owners of such a handset that have been hoping to be able to experience N-Gage gaming on their phon...

21 March 2009
06:59 GMT

N-Gage Has Need For Speed: Undercover

Those who own an N-Gage-compatible mobile phone have now even more reasons to rejoice, as another attractive game title is fast heading towards them, Need For Speed: Undercover. Racing enthusiasts will certainly enjoy this game in all its splendor on the N-Gage platform, just like those who played it on a desktop PC ...

19 March 2009
10:48 GMT

Prince of Persia Now Available for N-Gage Nokia Devices

We've recently learned something that will make a lot of Nokia users rejoice, namely the fact that Prince of Persia, the action adventure game developed by the guys from Gameloft, is now available on the N-Gage platform. Those who own a compatible mobile phone will be able to take a look at the game by going to ...

11 March 2009
02:54 GMT

Nokia and FISHLABS Bring Games to N-Gage

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH, a worldwide leading designer and publisher of high-quality 3D mobile games, announced recently an agreement to add games to the N-Gage service. According to the two companies, during the ongoing year users will be provided with titles such as Powerbo...

20 February 2009
02:55 GMT

Nokia N85 Comes out Full of Games

Nokia has recently announced that its latest N-Gage-compatible device, the Nokia N85, will be shipping globally together with an 8GB microSD card pre-loaded with at least ten try-and-buy games inbox, and the N-Gage application pre-loaded on the device. Combined with landscape gaming and dedicated gaming keys for addi...

17 October 2008
03:51 GMT

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Available for All Mobiles

Today, THQ has announced that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is available on mobile phones around the world, not just on the iPhone and the N-Gage platform. This is great news for Star Wars fans, since the game will become available for over 850 handsets. This, in turn, means that chances are considerably high that y...

30 September 2008
05:37 GMT

Horror on Nokia's N-Gage: Resident Evil Degeneration Is Coming

Nokia, the giant Finnish telecommunications company, has just announced that it will soon bring one of the most popular video games of the last decade – Resident Evil Degeneration, produced by the Japan-based Capcom – to its N-Gage platform. Based on the upcoming GC animation film that should be rele...

18 September 2008
03:55 GMT

Nokia Maps and N-Gage Now in Canada

Nokia announced today that Rogers Wireless, Canada's largest mobile carrier, is the first to offer the Nokia Maps and N-Gage services to Canadian customers. Both services are available for some time now in Europe, the US and on other markets, but Canada just did not get the chance to have them.When using Nokia M...

10 September 2008
15:31 GMT

Nokia Presents Reset Generation for N-Gage and PC

Nokia has announced today that Reset Generation, the "game about video games", is available on its N-Gage platform and can be downloaded by users who own the following handsets: Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB. To play the game you have to choose from one of the ten heroes availa...

5 August 2008
12:43 GMT

The Longest Human Snake Presented by Nokia

Snake, the popular video and mobile game that absolutely every gamer played at least once in their life, has reached now its most advanced version: Snake Subsonic, presented by Nokia and available on the N-Gage website, in the Showroom section (found at this address). Although the new game was announced back in the ...

26 May 2008
09:48 GMT

Metal Gear Solid Mobile N-Gaged by Nokia

Nokia unveiled today that Metal Gear Solid Mobile, the award-winning mobile game developed by the Japan-based Konami, will soon be available via the N-Gage gaming platform (accessible at this address). This is part of a broader collaboration between Nokia and Konami, which will bring, in the future, more Konami mobil...

20 May 2008
12:59 GMT

N-Gage to Get More Games

Ideaworks3D, a well-known London-based game developer, announced that its Airplay SDK 3.5 is now compatible with Nokia's recently launched N-Gage gaming platform. Airplay is a cross-platform native execution environment created to lower costs and fasten deployment over different hardware architectures and softwa...

9 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Nokia N-Gage 2.0 Finally Released, For Good

Nokia's long awaited gaming platform, N-Gage, is finally out, in the full 2.0 version, available now for download. For the beginning, Nokia only offers five games. Users have the chance to try, for free, the following titles: System Rush: Evolution, presented as a "non-stop action game"; Brain Challenge, to s...

4 April 2008
08:56 GMT

Nokia's New Games and Mobile Gaming Plans Presented at GDC 2008

Nokia announced a strong presence at this year's Game Developers Conference (18 - 22 February, San Francisco), bringing new N-Gage and SNAP Mobile games, live demos of its N-Gage First Access program, plus a keynote by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Markets, Nokia. "This year is our...

19 February 2008
03:43 GMT

Worms World Party Now On Nokia's N-Gage

Nokia and THQ Wireless Inc., a global leading publisher of mobile games, announced the availability of Worms World Party, developed by Team17, for the N-Gage Arena service. This way, Worms World Party will be playable on various Nokia mobile phones, allowing users to enjoy the fun and popular game anytime and anywher...

15 February 2008
04:42 GMT

Nokia N-Gage's Yamake Lets You Create Your Own Mini Games

Nokia Games Publishing has just announced its Yamake for N-Gage, a new game that allows users to create their own mini games by adding personalized content. After you've created your games, you can play and share them with friends and the Yamake community. "Yamake is a groundbreaking new game for the N-Gage pla...

14 February 2008
12:47 GMT

Nokia's N-Gage Paltform Finally Launched, Together With Share on Ovi

Nokia finally released its N-Gage gaming platform, a pre-release actually (under the name of N-Gage First Access) that allows only owners of Nokia N81 phones to try and buy N-Gage games. Although not a full launch, this pre-release is definitely a good sign for the new year and we should expect the full N-Gage advent...

6 February 2008
14:07 GMT

No N-Gage This Year, Nokia Delays It For 2008

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 h...

27 December 2007
03:24 GMT

N-Gage to Release a Detective Adventure for Mobiles

Nokia comes back into play with a new game release for mobiles called "Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol". Developed by the Jadestone, the maker of other mobile games, like Sea o'Fortune or Kudos, the Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol, will be available through N-Gage. For those who don't know, N-Gage is a ga...

17 December 2007
06:30 GMT

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Nokia's N-Gage Platform

Nokia, together with THQ Wireless, Lucasfilm and LucasArts, announced the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Nokia N-Gage platform in 2008. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed puts players in Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" position, promising to reveal new secrets about the Star Wars world. The g...

3 December 2007
12:18 GMT

Nokia N-Gage Launch? Maybe Later, in December

Nokia decided to postpone the N-Gage launch and seems to be experiencing some problems with its latest services. The delay will be of only a few weeks, moving the launch from November to December, this year. Nokia officials said that software testing is taking a bit more time than what they had expected in the first ...

3 November 2007
07:17 GMT

Nokia Ovi Service Preview

After announcing the introduction of new Internet services called Ovi, at the Nokia Go Play event in London, Nokia unveiled 4 new devices optimized to fully take advantage of these services: Nokia N81 and N81 8GB, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and Nokia 5610 XpressMusic. Ovi (Finnish word for "Door") services...

27 September 2007
10:22 GMT

Nokia Launches N-Gage Mobile Gaming Service

One of the services that Nokia has decided to bring out on the market is the N-Gage mobile gaming one. This is meant to allow people to test any N-Gage games for free from any of the tens of millions of compatible Nokia devices on the market. If the user likes it, he can choose to purchase and download it on his PC o...

30 August 2007
03:45 GMT

Nokia N81 Leaks Official Photos

Although the launch of Nokia N81 is expected to take place today, during the GoPlay presentation in London, some official photos have already appeared. The same has happened with the other devices that will be presented on this occasion, but Nokia N81 is probably the most expected of them all.What this device has to ...

29 August 2007
06:04 GMT

Capcom Games for Nokia's N-Gage Platform

Nokia and Capcom, the Japanese video game developer and publisher, announced yesterday that, in 2008, Capcom will be publishing games on Nokia's N-Gage, the next generation mobile gaming platform. The companies did not announce, though, what particular games from Capcon will be published. The collaboration bet...

28 August 2007
09:10 GMT

"Crash Bandicoot" Game Hits Nokia N-Gage Phones

As a result of their partnership with Vivendi Games Mobile, Nokia will bring "Crash Bandicoot" on their N-Gage mobile gaming platform. This brings the old fight of good vs evil on the Finnish company's new platform, starting with this fall."Crash Bandicoot" brings fun, action and a crazy marsupial looking to sav...

28 August 2007
08:46 GMT

Casual Games from I-play to the N-Gage Platform

Nokia and I-play, a well-known mobile entertainment company, will collaborate in order to bring a series of casual games to Nokia's N-Gage platform. The first games delivered by I-play to Nokia, available from 2008, are Super Mah Jong (based on the ancient Mah Jong) and World Rally Championship, which has FIA WR...

20 August 2007
08:47 GMT

Digital Chocolate Publishes Games for N-Gage

Digital Chocolate will bring several game titles especially designed for being played on Nokia N-Gage handsets. The mobile game developer has already signed to publish several game titles for this device.Digital Chocolate is one of the leading developers for mobile phone entertainment solutions. It has managed to bri...

24 July 2007
11:36 GMT

Indiagames to Bring Games to Nokia's N-Gage Platform

Nokia has finally announced the latest games and publishers for its next-gen N-Gage platform. Along with Glu Mobile, that had already confirmed its support for the N-Gage platform, today THQ Wireless and Indiagames have also announced they'll be joining the growing lineup of publishers that already includes EA M...

6 March 2007
07:03 GMT

Nokia Reveals New Games

Nokia announced earlier this week the latest games and publishers for its new N-Gage mobile gaming platform. Updated software development tools for the N-Gage platform and a new testing program for SNAP Mobile's Java platform were also introduced. These new developments will help bring fun to play connected mobi...

6 March 2007
03:20 GMT

World Series of Poker on the Next-Gen N-Gage

Nokia is still expected to reveal more details regarding its next-gen N-Gage mobile gaming platform, but as usual, several rumors that surfaced long before an official announcement revealed most of the details people were interested in. Also, Glu Mobile went on to announce it's releasing an eight-player multipla...

1 March 2007
10:31 GMT


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