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Pocket Gamer Reviews Pro Series Golf
“The game is quite far reaching, technically speaking, and taxes the N81 to within an inch of its battery life. The crisp, 3D graphics spare no pixels in recreating authentic fairways, and the game offers a seriously challenging and sincere golfing experience.”

N-Gation Reviews Brothers in Arms
The game receives a Silver Medal, with the author noting, “The game is a rather deep game for a mobile phone, think Call of Duty for mobile, deep rich levels with different levels of difficulty. ”

N-Gage TV Out
In a special feature, All About N-Gage presents a video of N-Gage games running through TV Out, and an editorial on what TV Out means for the future of N-Gage. Could it become much more than just a mobile gaming platform?

N-Gage on Consoles?
Nok-Nok reports the comments of a Nokia panelist at a recent conference, about “looking into” using N-Gage game assets on other platforms such as Xbox Live arcade.

Reset Generation First Impressions

• Pocket Gamer
• IGN
• Gamespy

Happy Friday, friends and neighbors, it’s your friendly neighborhood Ikona here, back from vacation and ready to rock and/or roll.

Sorry, no Top 5 Sales Story for you this week, since the data was unavailable.  However here are some nice links of interest…

Pro Series Golf Reviews

These may be old news to you but they are new to me, so bear with me. N-Gation and All About N-Gage both have posted reviews of Pro Series Golf.  N-Gation gives the game a Gold Medal, while AAN notes, “Is Pro Series Golf worth £8? Undoubtedly yes.”

Pro Series Golf Tutorial

Need help with Pro Series Golf? Long-time N-Gage veteran Shadowspan has put up a handy tutorial on his blog for all to enjoy.

Widsets for N-Gage Forums

N-Gage fan and blogger h0ax has gone ahead and created N-Gage widsets for many of the official N-Gage forums. What is a widset, you ask?

“With WidSets you can get your favorite web content straight to your mobile phone. Find news and information, stay in touch with email and blogs, play games, share pictures and more.” Ta-da! Basically it’s a shortcut on your mobile that lets your browse forums and other web content.

It’s not perfect, as h0ax notes, “You can only see the 1st Post for each topic, and not all topics but its still good for getting a quick update  and you cannot reply to threads either…” but it’s pretty neat anyway, especially for your Forum addicts.

Have fun, but remember these are not official N-Gage downloads and are not supported by Nokia.

To 3D or Not to 3D

All About N-Gage takes a look at an issue near and dear to the hearts of many users: support for 3D hardware on the N-Gage platform. After all, it’s the top issue burning up the charts on our new N-Gage Feedback Forum. (You have checked out our Feedback Forum, right?) .

Writer Tzer2 examines the different options, and concludes, “Ultimately, Nokia should go for whichever option lets them sell the most N-Gage games to the largest number of people.”

For what it’s worth, my understanding is that OpenGL support is still on the roadmap and will be introduced in a future version of the N-Gage SDK. This is something we talked about at GDC back in February, where a demo of ONE running on a 3D chip was shown.

Pro Series Golf has been released in the Showroom on the N-Gage application and is now available for you to try. Navigate to the Showroom tab and select ‘Update Now’ and it should appear at the head of the list.

“Pro Series Golf is an addictive combination of accessible gameplay blended with the emotive rivalry of competitive golf. Going beneath the surface of typical golf simulations, it exposes the heart of this elite sport — deep-seated rivalry and the drive to be the best!”

UPDATE: The game is now also available on the Website game page.

Give it a try and tell us what you think!