Nokia Looking To Port Ngage Games to Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network?
Nokia seems looking to expand their N-Gage games into other platforms. Aki Jarvilehto from Nokia said a panel at Develop Mobile 2008 conference that they are looking into “concepts where we use the same assets for Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Online.” Interesting! It is possibly that you can play a game on your phones, save your stats, and then continue laying on the Xbox at your home.
This is cool because it could mean that you can play a game on your phone, save your stats, then continue playing on the Xbox when you get home.
Additional Devices are added by N-Gage
For the first time since the official re-launch of the N-Gage gaming platform, Nokia decided to add pending support for additional devices. The N78, 5320, and N96 from Nokia is added pending support for additional devices by the N-Gage team (in the official re-launch of the N-gage gaming platform) though the last two are not being on sale yet formally. Sadly, the “old” N Series like N73, N93 and N93i are not supported yet. However, a number of attractive games are installed on your old device and available from the Download! client by the same developers like Vivendi Games, Glu Mobile and Gameloft.
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Guitar Hero III; Backstage Pass Is Ready to Rock Your Phone
Backstage Pass offers more than 25 hours of game play with advantages such as create demo tepes, sign records contracts, handle press interviews, rehearse songs and play shows by achieving carerr goals. Players can unlock several guitars to strengthen their performances, earn in-game money to be used to buy new guitars and gain the attention of record labels and soar to the top of the charts.
Game Review: WidSets Pets
Nokia has launched a new game as part of its WidSets mobile application, called WidSets Pets. Except it’s cross-platform, existing as a Facebook application and a mobile game. It seems. Nokia launch The widsets pet game for fulfill Nokia’s ambitions in mobile gaming go beyond N-Gage.
As the Symbian Guru blog explains, the innovative thing is it lets you use your photo to turn yourself into a virtual pet, which you can then look after, but can also be shared with your friends (if that’s not a disturbing thought).
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Nokia N-Gage on TV show
Nokia cooperate with Swedish Media Company Bringiton signs Play Us TV deal for N-Gage. From this show, the unique opportunity to blend gaming with television to provide the ultimate form of entertainment. And with this cooperate it could be Nokia advertising for N-Gage.
N-GAGE game review: Reset Generation
Reset generation is a multiplayer puzzle-adventure. This game is really entertaining, this is supposed to tickle you by using parodies of characters like Mario, Link, and even Master Chief, resulting in what they call “the world’s first videogame about videogames. .” We are going to call it “yet another game that couldn’t use the real thing so they decided to do humorous knockoffs.” Although who knows, if it’s crazy enough, it may work.
From a swath of “legendary champions,” whose ranks include a manic hedgehog, a space invader, a plumber, a bomb man, a Level 50 Elf, and some kind of Master Chief, among others. can be chosen as your hero. Every hero comes with a princess, and the object of the game is to rescue other players’ princesses before they can rescue yours. You accomplish this task by building combo roads to other heroes’ castles, firing cannons to defend your own abode from your opponents’ roads, and using your special power to finally get the girl!
Nokia’s Asian SNAP mobile
Games distribution channels in Asia, was expanded by Nokia. Nokia proclaimed that SNAP Mobile, its connected mobile Java(TM) gaming platform, has expanded games distribution channels in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
Through further cooperation with SINA Corporation, a leading online media company, Chinese consumers will be able to access more connected games on Nokia devices and download them through local online storefronts.
In Taiwan, people will be able to experience a new connected games service through gaming portals run by Taiwanese service provider PocketNet Technology Inc. as well as through Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the country’s largest mobile operator, Nokia said.
Game Review: Space Impact-Kappa Base
Space Impact is a nokia’s old school game which is easy to play and entertain-able. Now nokia launched the next version of space impact, which is named Space Impact-Kappa Base.
The gameplay revolves around choosing the appropriate skyblade and weapon loads for each level. As you collect money in the game you unlock more options, and eventually you can choose from eight skyblades and seventeen types of weapons. Because you can take several weapons at once on the same craft, there are 200 different combinations of weapons load, and what you choose will make a lot of difference. Some levels are almost impossible with a bad choice of weapons, but become much easier when you select a more appropriate combination. The choice of skyblade can also be important, as they have different properties in terms of speed, armour, and kinetic energy gathering.
Overall, Whether you like SIKB depends on what kind of gameplay you enjoy most. Although the offline game is called “story mode”, the aim is really to play and replay levels constantly chasing after a better grade, and to unlock more items.
Games Review: Asphalt 3 Street Rules
Asphalt 3 is a third party title from Gameloft, who specialise in phone games and have supported N-Gage since its first generation. This game is the follow-up to the Asphalt series of games from the first generation N-Gage and the Nintendo DS.
The gameplay ambience is arcade racer. The gameplay revolves around illegal street racing, and the emphasis is firmly on doing stuff you shouldn’t do: knocking other cars off the road, driving too fast, smashing into crates etc. The score you get for a race is far more influenced by what you do during the race than where you finish in the race, so if you come first but do very little else then you’ll get a very low score.
To get by in Asphalt 3 you have to master two things: nitro boosts and “drifting”. In general you should drift on every corner and use nitro boosts on every straight, which if done carefully should get you to the head of the pack fairly quickly. Nitrous can be picked up from certain points on the track, and they can also be earned by drifting and other activities. And of course illegal activity means the police will be after you, and if you do too many bad things you’ll see a police badge on the screen to indicate that a police car or bikes are on your tail
Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge
To keep N-Gage fortitude, Mobile Games Innovation Challenge has been launched by Nokia mobile communications company. This global competition is intended to encourage the development of game concepts that will ‘positively disrupt’ the mobile gaming commerce.
‘Nokia enthusiastically presents this Mobile Games Innovation Challenge as a unique opportunity for the best and brightest mobile game developers worldwide to really rock the industry with innovative, one-of-a-kind concepts that showcase what you can do with our mobile platforms,’ said Dr Mark Ollila, director of games publishing, Nokia.
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