All Games has put up a new podcast where they interview some of the team behind Creatures of the Deep, the next generation N-Gage fishing game.
Speaking to producer Mike Smith and games marketing manager Brandon Crick, they discuss the features of the game, share some tips on breaking into the gaming industry, and hand out some free goodies too.
Give it a listen here (right click to save to hard drive).
Hey guys, be sure to pick up the May issue of Edge, Europe’s leading videogame magazine. This month’s cover story is a piece on the future of gaming, focusing on the tech and trends that will shape our industry in the years to come.
We’re thrilled that Nokia’s gaming program was included, represented by Pocket Kingdom producer Scott Foe. He was included alongside the likes of Gabe Newell and Chris Hecker in a sidebar called “People Power.”
Here’s a bit from the Edge piece: “Foe’s Pocket Kingdom was the only
N-Gage title to really define new gaming territory. Now at work on a follow-up project, he’s in a unique position to blow apart expectations of mobile gaming up a real new frontier.”
Edge’s website can be found here.
Nokia has released the Video Manager as a free download for selected Series 60 phones. With it, you can more easily manage and transfer videos from your PC to your Nokia mobile device. It is designed to convert your videos to the optimal format for mobiles, too.
The application works with PC Suite and requires the latest version of that software to be installed in order to be effective.
Officially it is compatible only with the Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6290, and the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic devices, however the guys at the Series 60 Multimedia blog report compatibility with the N93, N95, N76, and E90 (check the discussion thread).
All About Symbian also has a nice write-up of it and another comment thread.
Hop on over to Nseries.com for a chance to win a brand spanking new Nokia N95. All you need to do is shoot a short video and upload it on the website.
If your video receives enough views to be entered into the Nseries Hall of fame, and is judged the best video of the week, you’ll win a new Nokia N95 device.
At the end of the competition, some of the videos may even have some of their footage included in the final cut of an Nseries TV commercial.
There’s a new winner every week, with six more weeks to go, so you still have plenty of opportunities to win. Check out Nseries.com for more.
As part of Melting Pot Month in the N-Gage Arena, we’re challenging you to create a humorous caption for the picture below. Successfully submitting a caption will earn you ten points on the Game of the Month Scoreboard, while the funniest caption will get an additional ten points at the end of the month.
Here are the guidelines for this activity:
And here is the picture to caption:
That’s it! To submit your caption, just hit add a comment.
SAMPLE:
Soldier 1: “I can’t see my legs!”
Soldier 2: “I’m calling someone who cares.”
Submitted by ikona
As the captions are approved, they will be posted, and each Monday an updated list of successful caption submitters will be updated on the scoreboard.
At the end of the month, we will choose the funniest web caption. That user will then receive ten additional points towards the April 2007 Game of the Month Melting Pot activity.
Have fun!
If you ever wondered what SNAP Mobile is and how it relates to the N-Gage experience, Games on Deck has published a new interview exploring those very issues. Here’s how they describe it:
In the third and final interview in our series of Nokia coverage, which included interviews with Nokia’s director of games publishing Gregg Sauter and Tomi Huttula, Head of Product Management for N-Gage at Nokia, plus an editorial from Dr Mark Ollila, Director of Technology and Strategy and Head of Games Publishing, Games on Deck talks to Antoine Doumenc, head of SNAP Mobile at Nokia, about SNAP Mobile its potential for game developers, and how it figures into Nokia’s N-Gage strategy.
Be sure to read the whole series, it will give you a great overview of where we are today.
