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Happy Friday everyone, and congratulations to all the Winners in the 2008 N-Gage Player Awards. Look for a complete recap in the Forums; meanwhile, here are the latest N-Gage game reviews to tide you over the weekend.

Nok-Nok review of Crash Bandicoot
Giving the game four out of five stars, the reviewer notes: “this Crash lands just as developers are getting the hang of the N-gage platform, and its graphics look amazing.”

Pocket Gamer review of Cafe Sudoku
Jon Mundy of Pocket Gamer takes the popular number puzzle game out for a spin and finds it satisfactory: “Café Sudoku presents a high quality, supremely polished take on the popular game. It’s worthy of consideration both for experienced number crunchers and those seeking an entry point.”

N-Gager review of Crash Bandicoot
John of N-Gager compares the new N-Gage cart racing game to Diddy Kong Racing, instead of Mario Kart, in contrast to most other reviewers. He also notes: “Nice and crisp cartoony graphics keep the Crash-theme alive. You can’t expect a lot more from this style of game,” and scores it 7 out of 10.

Pocket Gamer review of Boom Blox
PG’s Mundy is back with another review, this time a look at Boom Blox, the recent puzzle game effort from EA Mobile. He finds some things to like, but also is a little disappointed in the lack of Arena features.

Today’s round up of miscellaneous N-Gage links of interest…

Boom Blox Reviewed

Pocket Gamer gives their take on the Steven Spielberg-led effort, Boom Blox.

Hot Nokia Ideas for 2009

Nok-Nok comments on the new technologies coming to N-Gage: “N-Gage will grow up next year, with a new wave of widescreen games, touchscreen controls and a slew of new titles..”

N-Gage In-Box promotions

Ever wondered what’s inside the latest N-Gage compatible devices? Pocket Gamer takes you on a walk through the in-box material…

Resident Evil: Degeneration Review

All About N-Gage has posted their take on Resident Evil: Degeneration, the 3D action/adventure game from Capcom for the N-Gage platform. Read the whole thing here.

Best N-Gage Games of 2008

All About N-Gage has posted the results of their reader survey, asking Which is the Best N-Gage Game of 2008.

Games Chief at Nokia World

All About Symbian sits down with Jaakko Kaidesoja, head of our games program, for a video interview about the current offering and future efforts of N-Gage.

He confirms the Nokia N97 is planned as being an N-Gage device, discusses touch screens, muses over a subscription model for games, discusses Dance Fabulous, and more. Be sure to give these a watch.

The Nokia N97 Planned as N-Gage

Although it wasn’t mentioned in the press release and was downplayed by our marketing department, the Nokia N97 is planned on being an N-Gage device as shown in this publicly available sales sheet.

There are any number of thorough write-ups on the device online, including this one on All About Symbian.

Boom Blox First Impressions

Ani over on the S60 blog has taken a look at Boom Blox, the latest N-Gage game, and gives his first impressions.

“The concept is amazing and the application of physics with different levels is also super. This is the best part of the game as it keeps you glued to it. The game is good for play both in landscape and portrait mode. The controls are really simple and need no prior acquaintance as in the controls for Star Wars.”

Read the rest here, or try the game for yourself in our Showroom.

Mr. N-Gage in the Middle East

The Website 360east.com sits down with Gregory Horoupian, the manager of Nokia’s games business in Africa and the Middle East. They discuss the N-Gage effort in general from the perspective of someone not familiar with the platform, but also for those of you in those regions there is some interesting local information too.

Check out the article and the accompanying video right here.

Boom Blox from Electronic Arts has been released for N-Gage! It is currently available in the N-Gage application showroom. Tab over to Showroom and hit ‘Check for Updates’, then click on ‘Available Games.’

Go head-to-head with Spielberg’s BOOM BLOX! Slide on ice blocks, blast blocks with bombs, and bounce off springs to solve brain-twisting puzzles and level the playing field. Enjoy non-stop fun as you advance through forty levels and reach your target score. Master the in-game puzzles then design your own custom creations with the level editor. Blast ‘em with BOOM BLOX!

The game will be available on the Website game pages shortly and is already available on some country Showrooms.

Note: If the game is not showing up in your Showroom on the Web or device yet, please be patient. We are experiencing some technical issues which we hope to resolve promptly.

The city of Rome hosts the Nokia Games Summit, which kicked off today with exciting news and game announcements and confirming Nokia’s commitment to the N-Gage gaming platform.

Speaking to the state of N-Gage today is Tero Ojanperä, executive vice president and head of the Nokia entertainment and communities business. He gave some interesting details, as well about which countries are the most active.

“With the N-Gage service now live for six months, we have a truly global service on offer with sales transactions in over 130 countries and tens of millions of N-Gage compatible devices available,” said . “The most active players reside in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Australia and Spain, but we’ve seen active players worldwide with repeat purchase rates over 35% globally. Game trials have also proved to be important, with download to purchase conversions up to 30%.”

The summit runs through tomorrow, October 30, and we are expecting lots of news and announcements.

I’ll be posting summaries of the announcements and links to press write-ups right here on the blog, so you can follow along at home. Here’s what’s been announced so far:

* Dance Fabulous by Nokia

* EA SPORTS FIFA 09 by EA Mobile

* MONOPOLY Here & Now by EA Mobile

* Spore Origins by EA Mobile

* Boom Blox by EA Mobile

* Need for Speed Undercover by EA Mobile

* The Sims 3 by EA Mobile

* Tiger Woods PGA Tour by EA Mobile

* Tomb Raider Underworld by EA Mobile in partnership with Eidos

* Pandemonium by EA Mobile in partnership with Eidos

* Asphalt 4: Elite Racing by Gameloft

* Real Football 2009 by Gameloft

Tell us what you think!