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It’s time to live fantasy football - the world’s most authentic football simulation is back.  No matter how their team is doing on the pitch, football fans now have the power to pick up their heroes and put them at the top of the table with EA SPORTS™ FIFA 09 for N-Gage.

EA SPORTS FIFA 09 brings the beautiful game to life as never seen before on mobile devices with an intuitive control system that obeys players’ every command and brand new, ultra-realistic passing, shooting and skill move models.

Bringing home the silverware is more challenging than ever before, as FIFA 09 gets strategic - players must make the critical selection decisions to produce a winning team. Make the best choices from the 11 leagues, 243 teams and an amazing 4260 players, who will take to the pitch in any of the 6 player modes, to lead their team to glory?

FIFA 09™ is out now and available for selection on your N-Gage at www.n-gage.com.

The Facebook application of ONE, called ONE Survival of the Fittest, is now live on Facebook. You’ll find it here.

The idea: choose a mentor from the boss characters of ONE, create a player name and challenge your friends to a turn-based fights. Depending on your success you can unlock new moves and watch in-game videos.

If you are an N-Gage Player and you’ve added the app to your Facebook page, chime in here and let us see!

If you happen to be in the right part of Indonesia this week, you may catch the N-Gage bus traveling about town, bringing the message of made-for-mobile gaming to universities and other hangouts for young people. Inside the bus are game trials, merchants, demos, and assistants to help show off the games.

The promotion is to help kick off the N-Gage launch in Indonesia, the first country in the world to offer physical N-Gage vouchers at retail locations.

Here are some pictures of the bus and its interior (click for detail):

Upcoming bus stops:

19 December    Roti Bakar Edi
20 December    Comic Cafe
22 December    Uni Budi Luhur
23 December    Uni Budi Luhur

N-Gager Reviews FIFA 09

N-Gage fan site N-Gager.co.uk has taken a good hard look at the new FIFA 09 installment and delivered a verdict:

“The new control system is miles ahead of the previous installation. The game is only really playable in Landscape mode however because too many finger movements makes Portrait mode clumsy. There are plenty of different game modes and a lot of fun to be had with FIFA 09.”

Read the rest here, and of course try the game for yourself.

N-Gage competition round-up

Tzer2 on All About N-Gage has put together a handy post linking to six, yes count ‘em six, separate N-Gage competitions and promotions currently underway, where you can win anything from a football jersey to a Star Wars droid. Take a look here.

Meristation Reviews ONE for N-Gage

You Spanish speakers out there hungering for a tasty review of the fighting game ONE should definitely take a look-see here, and enjoy Meristation’s thorough review of the game.  And you don’t have to speak Spanish to know that a score of 8.5 is muy bueno!

S60 Reset Generation Ambassadors

Here is some news from s60.com you may be excited about:

“We are accepting Ambassadors for a new campaign supporting N-Gage Reset Generation. We have activation codes for the first 500 Ambassadors to who sign up for this campaign. We’ll also be giving away one copy of “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” for the next 12 weeks for each “Report of the Week”. And at the end of the campaign, the 50 most engaged Ambassadors will be rewarded with a Megapack of 10 N-Gage games.”

Hit the s60.com blog for more.

FIFA 09 Tourney Begins

Kick off and Win! Be sure to enter the FIFA 09 tournament which has just kicked off globally in conjunction with the launch of EA SPORTS FIFA ‘09 on N-Gage. There are tons of great prizes including a Nokia N85, signed footballer jerseys, and free games.

Dirk Dagger author interview

Pocket Gamer talks to writer Andrew Walsh, who authored the script for Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol. Here’s a snippet:

“It’s easy to write things that you find funny in the office but not elsewhere,” says Walsh. “That said, you have to start somewhere - if it made us laugh, it was a good start! A few of the wordplays and some language might get lost in translation, but a lot of it seems to have travelled really well.”

Read the rest.

If you’re in Helsinki, Finland and you love Star Wars, you are going to want to check out this special N-Gage and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed promotions going on.

This is a joint promotion being done in conjunction with our operator partner Elisa, and their Saunalahti brand. The promotion is jointly showcasing the Nokia N85 and the N-Gage brand, with such great games as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

If you’d like to check it out, go to: Lasipalatsi, Mannerheimintie 22-24 (Helsinki center). This promotion is running through December 14, 2008, so don’t be late!

And even if you can’t make it, check out these great pictures from the location (click for larger).

You know ONE as your favorite mobile fighting game, a no-holds-barred, bare-knuckled brawler that shows off the spectacular graphics capability of the N-Gage platform.

Now you can show your love for ONE with these new wallpapers for your desktop PC or mobile device. The mobile wallpapers are 240×240, while the desktops are available as 1600×1200 or 1920×1200/

Check out some of the samples below:

Download Wallpapers for your PC (6.0 MB

Download Wallpapers for your Mobile (651 KB)

Think you know mobile gaming? Then put on a towel and prove it!

Gamasutra has teamed up with Nokia to give away Nokia N81 smartphones and bathrobes — yes, bathrobes — each week for twelve weeks, part of our N-Gage Sauna Talk campaign aimed at mobile game developers.

The sauna is a Finnish institution, so of course interviewing undressed people in a sauna makes perfect sense! You can learn more about this competition right here and more about Finnish saunas over here.

Get your game on at U.S. Nokia Flagship stores and walk away with a free N-Gage Activation Code for Reset Generation. Visit the stores in New York (between 28 Oct and 17 Nov) or Chicago (between 29 Oct and 10 Nov) and challenge their N-Gage experts to a “Quick Match” of Reset Generation to earn your free game. And be sure to ask about our other Reset Generation gifts available with the purchase of an N-Gage compatible device!

Here are some pictures of some of the cool signage that will be installed in the stores this weekend:

N-Gage reaches out to online gamers in their hour of need.

With Microsoft’s Xbox Live service receiving routine maintenance on Monday, September 29, over 12 million subscribers may need to leave their consoles and interact with society. One company is doing its part to help New York City and Chicago area gamers in their natural habitat.

Nokia, Inc., the world’s largest mobile device manufacturer and home to N-Gage, invites gamers to their flagship stores in New York City and Chicago to get their online gaming fix. N-Gage experts will be on-hand to help — or challenge — willing customers. Nokia is also giving away free access codes to its newest game — Star Wars™ The Force Unleashed™. This hotly anticipated title brings the Star Wars world right to Nokia handsets so that gamers can take the game with them wherever they go — however “far, far away” from their consoles they venture. And by creating a Player Name in the free N-Gage Arena, gamers can challenge their friends (or complete strangers) over the N-Gage network.

Gamers who want to take Nokia up on this offer only need to walk into Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago on Monday September 29, 2008 during store hours and ask for the free Star Wars The Force Unleashed game for N-Gage. In doing so, they will also receive a 15% discount on any available N-Gage-compatible Nokia device. These devices include the Nokia N95*, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB and Nokia N82.

* denotes Nokia N95 in black or bronze. Red Nokia N95 not eligible for promotion.

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