A New and Improved Nokia N-Gage Mobile Gaming Service
February 27, 2007
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Officials from mobile phone company Nokia have announced that they and local telecommunications company Elisa will carry out a pilot of the new N-Gage mobile gaming service, which is set to run between February and mid 2007. Nokia device owners are promised improved game quality, performance and a new intuitive games interface.
Previous reports regarding the N-Gage have revealed an array of major-publisher support for the networked service, which will allow digital downloading of custom cellphone games and a number of Xbox Live-style connectivity and community features. The service itself is due to launch in mid 2007.
Nokia’s N-Gage portable console/mobile phone hybrid was pretty much a bust - and a high-profile one too - but Nokia has long claimed that it will continue to target the games market, initially via a range of new N-Gage compatible mobile phone handsets, with more public information likely at March’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Nokia reportedly hosted a secret two-day January workshop for publishers and developers, which was reports say was a chance for Nokia to unveil their new platform for the first time.
“The core of the Nokia games strategy is to make it easy for people to find, buy and play great quality mobile games and we’re excited to expand our relationship with Elisa to help make this possible,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, director, games, multimedia, Nokia. “This pilot will help us further refine the N-Gage experience for our commercial launch later this year.”
