Archive for August, 2007

Nokia today announced that I-play will deliver its line-up of casual games to the N-Gage platform.

The first two games to be introduced are World Rally Championship and Super Mah Jong. They will be available in 2008.

Super Mah Jong is being developed by the creators of the award-winning Jewel Quest, while World Rally Championship is the only mobile game to carry the official WRC license.

I-play describes its lineup as “casual, ‘one-thumb’ games for the mass market. I-play games provide an easy to play, difficult to master ‘dip in and dip out’ playability, with a focus on fun for the N-Gage player.”

Ikona adds: I’m still hoping for their Pillowfight game, where you “join an elite and sexy crew of hot women in the exclusive world of competitive pillow fighting.”

For those of you in Asia interested in mobile game development, you’ll be glad to hear that Nokia will be the primary sponsor of the Games Convention Asia 2007, Game Daily reports.

The convention, being held in Singapore between September 6th through 9th, will be the first convention in Singapore catering the entire Asia-Pacific region for the interactive entertainment, infotainment, edutainment, hardware and technology industry.

Representing Nokia will be a keynote by Jawahar Kanjilal in addition to special sessions with Miikka Skaffari and Keith Liu.

For more on the conference, visit the GCA official site.

Hello N-Gage fans, Ikona here with a quick news round-up of N-Gage and Nokia-related articles.

First off, All About Symbian has a fascinating article about using the TV out on your Nokia N95 device for gaming. This is a really enjoyable writeup with great pictures of Snakes, the System Rush demo, and some other games running on a big screen.

Next up, Tech Digest has some rumors about a Nokia event to be held in London on August 29. They speculate about the launch of a music service, the Nokia N81, and even talk about the N-Gage. More speculation on the same event is featured on Tech.co.uk, which reports on a viral video apparently circulating around the Internet, promoting the N81 too.

Finally, Investor’s Business Daily has a write-up on the growth of the mobile gaming industry. There is a paragraph or two on the N-Gage (even a picture of an old school N-Gage QD!) but not much new here for N-Gage fans.

And the line about “an updated model of the N-Gage is scheduled to launch this fall” is not entirely correct — as you guys should know by now, the new N-Gage platform will launch on a range of Nokia mobile devices.