Mobile gaming evolves – Ovi Store is here
We’ve been busy evolving our mobile gaming service and building up the portfolio of games in Ovi Store. Currently, we have more than a thousand games available in Ovi Store supported by 100 Nokia device models and are growing the platform and portfolio as quickly as possible.
If you haven’t checked out Ovi Store lately, we suggest you stop by store.ovi.com/games for the latest mobile games for your Nokia device. And what’s best, not only will you be able to get a wide variety of games like Pac-Man, The Sims 3 and Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile in the Ovi Store, but you will have access to hundreds of new ones like Sky Force Reload and EA SPORTS FIFA 10 from a wide range of publishers from 65 countries.
As we continue to move Nokia’s services under the Ovi umbrella, Ovi Store is the one-stop-shop for all your mobile content. If you’re looking for the latest apps, games and other mobile content, Ovi Store is available in more than 180 countries. And remember, content is for everyone so start downloading today.
So, you might ask, what will happen to the current N-Gage platform?
N-Gage games can be purchased until the end of September 2010. While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will remain in operation throughout 2010, the Ovi Store will be the new central place for all the mobile games that Nokia and other publishers offer from this point forward. We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform.
What will happen to N-Gage Arena?
N-Gage Arena will remain in operation throughout 2010 and players can e.g. keep posting their high scores until then. We understand that people value the ability to manage their games and communicate about them, and we are working on offering such community elements through Ovi. Games publishers are free to use community features of their choosing in their apps, the feature set is not defined by Nokia. Social Networking applications are some of the most downloaded on Ovi Store, emphasing the power of connecting people.
What will happen to my games?
Your games are safe - all your purchased N-Gage games will continue to work on your N-Gage compatible mobile device and they’re yours to keep. However, community features of the games will not be functional after 2010.
Do you have plans to bring community elements to the Ovi Store gaming experience?
Yes, we understand how important community is to our gamers. You can already post reviews of games and other apps in the Ovi Store. We are actively working on offering more community elements through Ovi and we encourage developers to use community features in their applications. Stay tuned – there’s more to come on this.
Why doesn’t Nokia keep N-Gage as a separate gaming platform?
As mobile gaming evolves and begins to encompass social gaming, we want to offer one store front with an even broader portfolio of games – games for everyone. It’s much more convenient to have one place to get all your mobile games, and this it what Ovi Store https://store.ovi.com/games provides. Mobile gaming is one of the most popular activities in the Ovi Store, with games being the #2 most downloaded category for premium content. And besides having all mobile games in one place, people can access other services like Mail, Maps, Music and many more via www.ovi.com.
What will happen to N-Gage.com?
The N-Gage.com site will remain in operation throughout 2010, with the exception of the N-Gage Store which will remain open until the end of September 2010. However, we recommend people to visit Ovi Store to play the latest games – many familiar games and so much more.
Will you stop shipping devices with the N-Gage application pre-installed?
We will continue to sell devices with N-Gage application pre-installed for some time, however we will no longer ship new devices with the application pre-installed.
Games will be available through the Ovi Store which is already supported by 100 Nokia device models and growing. Ovi Store will be pre-installed on most new compatible Nokia devices including Symbian S60 & Series 40 from Q4 2009.
Thank you for being part of the N-Gage community and your participation over the years. It is important we share this information with you first as we know how much the N-Gage Community means to you, and that being up to date on the latest gaming information is of importance.
We appreciate your contributions and loyalty to the N-Gage community and service, and we hope to continue to hear from you via Ovi. See you in the Games!
Sign up here to Ovi for more news about games, apps and other mobile content in Ovi Store
Nokia Games team
October 30th, 2009 at 8:33 am
It’s a sad day for N-Gage fans
October 30th, 2009 at 9:03 am
wait - how will i be able to reinstall my n-gage games after the site is shut down?
every time i try to install an n-gage app, when i enter the activation code the app goes online to verify it. so, after 2010 i won’t be able to reinstall my n-gage games anymore? this is unpleasant.
i suppose since half of my n-gage purchases aren’t compatible with my n97 anyways, i’m sort of being weened off n-gage already. n-gage was/is much better than Ovi, in my opinion. my Ovi store account has already been terminated once because i posted lots of reviews. yeah. that never happened with n-gage. (if you’re curious, ovi store account termination is automatic if more than ~6 of your reviews are flagged by ANYONE as potentially inappropriate - mine were not abusive, but appear to have been flagged. ovi store team’s email address is undeliverable and i’ve never had a positive response from nokia care about this - so ovi store == very VERY bad. n-gage? pretty good.)
*sigh*
the best things in life always fade to pleasant memories.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:13 am
This is very sad and I for one will miss them all. N-Gage was a great idea hit by a few runs of hard luck.
Thanks to Nokia and their hard-working teams for providing such a great platform.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Next year will be a sad day when Ngage closes it’s doors, I for one will miss Ngage, Mods & Adim very much. Why this had to happen is beyond me but thanks for making Ngage fun for me.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:25 am
[...] If you’re an N-Gage addict, make sure you read the complete blog post to get the details on what’s changing and when. [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 9:33 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Go to Source [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
God bless N-Gage and all who sailed in her!
Seriously though, we’ve been following N-Gage for many years now at http://www.PocketGamer.co.uk, we’ve a dedicated section for both the 2.0 and the original platform on the site (and we’ll definitely be keeping those up for the forseeable) and we even helped with the official magazine last year.
Even though things didn’t work out as planned, we remain big fans of the devices which played a crucial part in evolving the gaming phone concept (and gave the world side-talking), the services (the N-Gage Arena was actually rather brilliant) and even more so the individuals and teams involved (having met and worked with some wonderful people over the years).
So RIP N-Gage and here’s hoping that Ovi may succeed where N-Gage faltered. We’ll be paying our respects with a series of articles in the coming days, so feel free to join us to share your memories and fave games from the N-Gage era.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Congested, dude, picked this up on engadget feed. It’s a sad day. Hopefully all our future mobile gaming needs will be met by you and the team on Ovi.
RIP N-Gage - you were misunderstood by most and underappreciated by almost everyone. I may break out the original taco tonight and have a bash on Colin McRae Rally, or maybe see if there’s anyone to play Tiger Woods against still.
Good luck for the future!
October 30th, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Share and Enjoy: [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:03 am
hey saddest news for me for the month. whole oct was good and best for me bt on last days i m getting this news???
now after one year hw will i pass my time? hw will i get all my dear n-gage friends back?? and what about fun which i had and will have until sept 2010 with my friends and mods in ARENA CLUBHOUSE??
let hope there come N-gage-3 with more exitement and fun!!!
mannu
October 30th, 2009 at 10:22 am
[...] mobile gaming platform will end its life sooner than everyone has probably thought. Nokia has just announced that N-Gage.com and the N-Gage Arena will stop being operational after 2010, while N-Gage games [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Well, sad news. We supported N-Gage 1.0 and N-Gage 2.0 with loads of articles, news, reports and nearly 80 reviews, but I don’t think we’ll support Ovi. Nokia has been doing too many things wrong on the gaming side and the 2.0 support was a joke.
Sadly, Nokia has ruined it’s reputation in the mobile gaming industry. That’s what professionnels are telling us everyday, “off record” of course, but it’s a reality.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:32 am
[...] into the N-Gage platform (no, we didn’t quite get that, either) — and now it’s being taken behind the shed and put out of its misery. Or, as the N-Gage blog puts it, it’s being “evolved” into Nokia’s Ovi [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Bookmark This Post Comments (0) [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Just my luck, I bought my first N-Gage compatible device earlier in october (black E52), and now the whole thing gonna die? Bummer.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:51 am
[...] final nail in the coffin for Nokia’s ambitious but horribly flawed venture into gaming. The N-Gage blog stated: N-Gage games can be purchased until the end of September 2010. While the N-Gage.com site [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Categories: Gaming, Mobile [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Finally, It happened.
I am so happy that we get into this point. N-Gage2 was simply a joke and build upon mistakes. You can’t build a strong building on a weak base and that was N-Gage2 present.
Now N-Gage/Ovi-Game you need to start working on qt with an opengl for N-Gage3 (Open It/ Release it to public /Price it) and you a ready to go.
What a nice day that starts to get even better
October 30th, 2009 at 11:25 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Rate this topic: (No Ratings Yet) Popularity: 0 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:26 am
[...] saddening news today, Nokia has officially announced over on the N-Gage Blog, that they plan to shut down the N-Gage gaming [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am
[...] appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Goodbye N-Gage. You will be missed.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:57 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 11:58 am
oh my!
is this true
the n-gage the best company of games will finish
will if that final decide I will not bother
but that really shock
October 30th, 2009 at 11:59 am
[...] Source Share this on del.icio.usShare this on FacebookTweet This!Share this on RedditDigg this!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponAdd this to Google BookmarksShare this on TechnoratiSubscribe to the comments for this post?Tip this to TechMemeSubmit this to DesignFloatPost this to MySpaceShare this on LinkedinSeed this on NewsvineShare this on FriendFeedPost this to PosterousBuzz up!Email this to a friend? [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
[...] In case you happen to be an N-Gage addict, don’t forget to read the full blog post to know the details on what’s going to change and when. [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
We’ve posted our obituary on All About Symbian and Ovi Gaming. http://tinyurl.com/ngage-obit
The discussions and arguments are for later. For now, many of us have lost, er, something.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
RIP my dear n-gage you know how much i loved you and still loving the concept N-GAGE. Still i am using my sweet silver QD i will use it forever until it will give up on me.
N-Gage a Brilliant concept but never stand and faced the world at the fullest.
dont know whats good will be about ovi but I don’t think there will be 2x next gen for gaming like N-Gage.
Big C a sad news from you, gonna miss days spend with you guys on arena.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Nokia why?? Creatures of the Deep, Reset Generation, Mega Monsters- it’s the best mobile game ever. Nokia more advertise N-Gage not kill it…
sry for my english
October 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
snif! snif! (no words, just sad)
October 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
[...] a blog post, the cellphone maker said it will continue selling games through its Ovi app store. Customers can [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
6 years of using the service (i.e. the N-Gage Brand) and now its about to end….sucks indeed, but tbh most of us (regulars) knew that this was going to happen sooner or later…espically with RR leaving.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
[...] announcement game in a Question and Answer-style post on the N-Gage blog about the new Ovi Store, a hub for various kinds of games for Nokia products. As it is said just [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
[...] you’re one of the five people using the N-Gage platform, Nokia posted a handy FAQ on their N-Gage blog about the switchover: So, you might ask, what will happen to the current N-Gage platform? N-Gage [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
[...] has just gotten around to realizing that the N-Gage is dead in the water, twice. In related news, Japan lost World War II, and the Roman Empire fell. This one [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
[...] Nokia announced that it is ending the N-Gage line of phones and games, instead opting to push forward its gaming agenda via the Ovi app store. The move was inevitable, [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Why….. a year ago,the reason i bought my N81-3 was because after watching couple of my friends playing with ONE n COTD, i was so amaze to i end my buying a phone, i too purchase those few games and waited for more great release…. time to time, i started to feel the latest few games are starting to get crappy… what happen to asphalt 2? i assure you its far more better than asphalt 3… i put too much hope in ye N-gage… ye really done it this time, my heart really shattered…
October 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
This a really bad bad move for Nokia. Its shares already dropped today when the announcement was made with 3%.
But it is more than that. It is normal from all the phone users the N-Gage to be a niche, because put it simply smartphone is a niche in Nokia phones and N-Series is a niche in smartphones (considering all E-Series, Xpress Music and X-Series, N-Series, and number series running s60 OS).
The bad move is when a company closes something with no replacemnt on the same level.
This happens with N-Gage closing – the N-Gage platform had a community behing with network gaming, reviews, discussions and much more, and this can be only patially replaced by Ovi gaming, some features will never be replaced.
So then, Nokia did a very bad move because maybe that “niche” of users were core funs of the N-Series. And Nokia lost that 5% or 10% or 20% of users which will be certanly attracted by the many gaming titles on other platforms.
Why would any company close something with no replacement at the same level?
In my opinion, Nokia should have announced that they rename N-Gage as “OVI-Gaming” or “OVI N-Gage Games”, keep the platform and completely integrate it in OVI with keeping the accounts, the people inbox, messages, reviews. Of course, that means Nokia had to do the integration of N-Gage in OVI, but they did not want that, they took the sort way and said bye-bye.
I would not be surprised if Nokia will also CUT ANY OTHER SERVICE in the future, CUT Share on OVI, cut OVI MAIL, CUT even OVI MAPS, cut Ovi Music, etc because of the same reasons: they were niche…
N-Gage was a service loved by many gamers, they had friends on the N-Gage platform, partners to play with and Nokia instead of keeping the accounts and merge them into OVI, they simply delete this. BAD MOVE.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I’ll fondly remember the n-gage and the arena. I made a lot of good online friends here and it was my first online gaming experience. It was a great run.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
this is the saddest day in my gamer life
October 30th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
First my N97 dies, and now N-Gage dies?
Goodbye Nokia.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
How many people actually have an n-gage?
October 30th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
[...] might want to sit down before you read this. Nokia has announced that they will be stopping all support for it’s plagued portable gaming platform, the N-Gage. [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
[...] Mobile gaming evolves – Ovi Store is here [N-Gage Blog] Tagged:n-gagengagenokia [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 12:00 am
[...] Nokia announced that it is ending the N-Gage line of phones and games, instead opting to push forward its gaming agenda via the Ovi app store. The move was inevitable, [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 12:34 am
[...] announcement came on Friday on the official N-Gage Blog, headlined “Mobile gaming evolves – Ovi Store is here”, a post which was really all [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 12:36 am
Who cares what happens to Ngage. Its over. Apple iPhone won game, set and match. Ngage headed to the same unmarked grave as Ovi and Comes With Music.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:38 am
Sorry to hear it, N-Gage was a pioneer in many ways and if the timing was a little off, and the hurdles a bit too high, it was still a great aspiration. Will look forward to seeing what you all do next in Ovi though!
October 31st, 2009 at 1:05 am
I just want to know where we can download games in OVI?
I mean the games for FP1, if u are using FP1 phones like N95 N82, u will find there is no games for our phones……..
October 31st, 2009 at 1:34 am
a pity. sigh …
October 31st, 2009 at 2:13 am
How very annoying. I had the original N-Gage and enjoyed games on that one. But I didn’t buy a phone that was compatible with the N-Gage platform until 3 weeks ago, when I got myself a black E52, and instantly installed and bought a few games for it. And now it’s to be killed.
I think the N-Gage generation had three noticeable flaws to it.
1) It took too damn long for them to release it, they started to talk about releasing N-Gage to multiple S60 devices back in 2005, but we didn’t see it until 2008.
2) Due the fact it took them so long, the initial N-Gage compatible devices, turned out to not be compatible with N-Gage at all, like the N73 and N93.
3) And most importantly, the poor selection of games. Besides the Dirk Dagger games, there aren’t really anything that offer much of a story and at the same time the DD games offer a very poor replayability. The original N-Gage had some great RPGs like Rifts: Promise of Power and Shadowkey, but none of that on the N-Gage platform. Same with excellent turnbased games like Pathway to Glory and Civilization but none of that here either. And the kind of game I want to play the most, are RPGs. Instead we mostly got lightweight casual games, which isn’t really that different from the java games available.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:25 am
[...] mobile gaming platform will end its life sooner than everyone has probably thought. Nokia has just announced that N-Gage.com and the N-Gage Arena will stop being operational after 2010, while N-Gage games [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 3:27 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Leave a comment Similar Posts and VideosFCC FridaysNovember 6: stores open at 6AM for DROID, Droid Eris?Xperia Pureness unboxed, performs for the camera (video) No comments yet. [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 4:06 am
RIP N-gage
October 31st, 2009 at 5:42 am
Dear sir,
I am aware that Nokia constantly introduce new handsets with new features in market. We all know that fake note is a major problem in our economy, then why Nokia is not developing a handset device which can detect fake note? Just like common laser fake note detector available in the market? This can be the usp of Nokia, and i am sure it will be a profitable innovation for Nokia.Also Nokia should think of inventing a new device which can monitor Blood pressure & also Blood sugar of a parson.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:15 am
wow. coming up to renewal of my phone contract, I wanted something that would make my existing software and information relevant. Despite all the tempting items around I thought to stick with Nokia for their unique standing in a market saturated by apple/iphone wannabes. Not to knock them (apple/iphone) themselves but clearly their presence in the market has been without a doubt influential. Clearly so that Nokia wish to merge their n-gage customers with the ovi appstore one hence the ‘coup de grace’ announced.
With this as an indication of things to come, the mess-about with symbian builds and perhaps ‘maemo #’, I have re-evaluated my standing and needs in a phone and see that Nokia have nothing to offer me personally (of a unique selling point).
Goodbye Nokia. Hello Moto… or Android… or Apple.
It was fun.
Shalom.
Hello
October 31st, 2009 at 6:24 am
Big shame, but the writing has been on the wall for quite a while. Recent games have been terrible and so the sevice will hardly be missed. Hope the staff are moved over to Ovi so no one has to endure tough time, good luck all.
October 31st, 2009 at 7:54 am
This Is truely a sad, and a bit confusing day. Am I to understand that Nokia not only will move the web part of n-gage over to ovi, but also will close the n-gage platform all togheter… If so it is truely a sad day, and a bit hard to understand given the resources nokia has been using to re-develop n-gage the last past two years… One of the most apealing features about the n-gage is just that the n-gage platform, not unlinke the platform sony has for gamescores etc. for playstation, so this decion makes no sense to me.. [I will make a further article on my website soon...]
October 31st, 2009 at 9:03 am
Very sad news for the community and for the few excellent games the platform has, but it was unavoidable. N-Gage deserve its failure.
The question is why shutdown all the community services. Maintaining them costs nothing for a company like Nokia.
October 31st, 2009 at 9:33 am
Well I bought NOKIA N95 in 2007. I loved it because of that it has a wonderful gaming platform N-GAGE. N95 broke down and next I bought NOKIA 5630 instead of other because I didn’t wanted to lose N-GAGE. Now you are saying that N-GAGE time is ending. That are really bad news because in my opinion by closing N-GAGE platform NOKIA will have to do something really impressive to don’t lose a big part of it’s customers.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:08 am
I HATE YOU, NOKIA! Goodbye, NOKIA!
October 31st, 2009 at 10:23 am
[...] Nokia announced that it is ending the N-Gage line of phones and games, instead opting to push forward its gaming agenda via the Ovi app store. The move was inevitable, [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I personally loved the N-GAGE idea, after all the N-GAGE QD was my first phone.
But in all honestly, Nokia botched the N-GAGE from the very start and it’s been on life support ever since.
And the greatest shame of all? Nokia released some amazing games that almost no one will ever play…
October 31st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
i always wait for new release of n-gage games,but suddenly hear that n-gage will closed…
i know your business get problem with the productivity other app store,however shut down n-gage and powered ovi store,i think is that’s bad idea since many of your costumer just by the phone cause the n-gage platform like me…
since it will be closed,i consider to find other phone…
–note : ovi store just provided crap java games,it’s nothing then full powered n-gage games like creature of the deep or the one sequel,so why i should by game from ovi???
October 31st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
[...] from their product line. During an announcement for a new app store, Nokia reported that they are no longer planning to continue this gadget – at all. Not only that, the game store will be terminated in September 2010, and no new games [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
[...] sharpen gaming in Ovi Store Nokia plans to shut down its N- Gage gaming series by September 2010, they announced on Friday, “We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
[...] In a blog post, the cellphone maker said it will continue selling games through its Ovi app store. Customers can download games through N-Gage until September 2010, it added, though new games will not be published there. Previously purchased games will also continue to work on handsets, though the community features will be disabled in September as well. [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
[...] Nokia announced that it is ending the N-Gage line of phones and games, instead opting to push forward its gaming agenda via the Ovi app store. The move was inevitable, [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 2:53 am
why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why…………….why……….why nokia!!!!!!!! please don’t kill n-gage platform,because n-gage is the best platform game………..
srry my speak………
November 1st, 2009 at 3:01 am
[...] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments 0 people like this post. Like [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 7:22 am
[...] to find and purchase mobile games. It’s our one-stop shop for games”, he said. Via [N-Gage Blog, thanks Mobile Entertainment News] Share this [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 9:44 am
another sad ending for n-gage, bye guys.:(
November 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am
[...] Source [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 11:19 am
I had a N73ME,and Nokia banned me.Tuesday I’ll get a iPhone 3G wich is better than Nokia :)) .Anyway the iPhone graphics are way better.I saw this coming,just like the N-Gage and N-Gage QD.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
why switch to ovi for gaming, ovi store is crap at best!
impossible to find specific applications, no search function from your phone, applications show up as compatible for 5800 only when still compatible with n97.
I’ve only ever had Nokia, however after some of your recent decisions i think its time to change to another phone manufacturer. I know i’m only 1 person but i suspect you will get a lot of people who will change phones.
On a more productive note, n-gage works well, you needed to make it compatible with 5800XM and advertise the hell out of it, thats how the iphone beats everyone, its a terrible phone but advertising gets the numbers
November 1st, 2009 at 6:56 pm
[...] Nokia’s blog announcement [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
[...] Nokia N-Gage Share on: [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 am
Will you provide N-Gage platform for the new devices like N97 mini ?
It is a attractive point that I can still play N-Gage games in a Touch Sreen Device !
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 am
[...] is a gaming platform where gamers can purchase games, network play and enjoy gaming. According to a blog post by N-Gage Nokia, the N-Gage portal will continue to operate till September 2010 but there will be [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 am
[...] Read the official announcement on the official Nokia N-Gage blog. [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 am
[...] the official announcement on the official Nokia N-Gage blog. Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 am
[...] mobile phone maker has announced it would phase out the mobile gaming service over the next several months, thus ending a chapter of tech history that made people’s eyes [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 am
[...] Source: N-Gage Blog [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Nokia only create expensive garbage for ngage 2.0 platform, when the ngageqd was the best gaming platform ever.
nokia sick. before was better. symbian 7 and 8 were better and symbian 9 is a mess.
NOKIA! Goodbye,
Now I buy a iphone
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
[...] Even at launch we could all see the terrible library and general awkwardness N-Gage had. As the official N-Gage blog reports, the N-Gage side of life, made totally redundant by the games section of Ovi, will be closing down [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
[...] Source: Nokia Blog [...]
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
[...] announcement was made via Nokia’s N-Gage game blog, where the company directs current users to the Ovi Store to continue to purchase games for their [...]
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 am
[...] that they will be closing down the service at the end of September 2010. About four hardcore fans protested mildly in the N-Gage blog as the rest of the world yawned. Seems like N-Gage was a project doomed to fail. [...]
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
I had Nokia phones from 98 to 2008.
I played games on them 2 or 3 times a year.
Since 2008 I have an iphone and did not buy it for the games.
But I play games on it several times a week.
So I believe Apple was successful as a game platform.
I loved the Nokia phones before Symbian. Today I like iphone. Tomorrow maybe I’ll go to Android.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 am
I believe one of the reason that N-gage 2.0 died is the lack of touchscreen support. Not that button-based games are bad, but touchscreen games is the way forward… (all thanks to iPhone)
Nokia, why not start afresh, release an N-gage application that only supports touchscreen phones? I understand that development cost are high, so drop support of button based games, release only touchscreen games, but still retain all the community services that N-gage is so famous for (point pickups, friends, trial, high scores). This will definitely give an edge to those iPhone and Android phone games.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Sad ending again….. good bye N-Gage…… It was a lot of fun with you….
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 am
Maybe Nokia open all Ngage-games for FREE DOWNLOAD by NGage-device owners ?
It’s will be a good END (maybe not Happy End of Ngage history)
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
What Nokia propose for players who like to play high or mid quality games (Ngage2.0 with satisfactory graphics and sound like ONE, Bounce Voyage, Prince of Persia, Dirk Dagger, Creatures of the Deep, Resident Evil etc.) ? OVI games? Same games for S40 and s60 platform? I don’t like it. I don’t like iPhone stylized pseudo-games. I like game console with real buttons control (vide N81, N95 and others) and with no PS3-like quality. NGage2.0 quality was enought for many good games.Ngage2.0 is (sorry was) easy enought for newbe players.
Nokia please do not imitate iphone store/platform - style in game distribution/quality/mass.
My next phone had to be Nokia N85, but now….
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I said many months ago in the forums that N-gage was dead, and everyone said I was crazy. Now here’s the evidence to show I was right… My last post here. Went onto Android some months ago. A pitty Nokia didn’t get it right the second time around either…
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
[...] that they will be closing down the service at the end of September 2010. About four hardcore fans protested mildly in the N-Gage blog as the rest of the world yawned. Seems like N-Gage was a project doomed to fail. [...]
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
ovi is rubbish big mistake from nokia bye bye nokia thanks for wasting my money on the games not that you care.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
This will be my memories of n-gage
November 4th, 2009 at 1:32 am
what a shame :/
November 4th, 2009 at 5:15 am
[...] the Next Generation Gaming Platform)Died aged 6 of neglect and misunderstanding,October 30th 2009, Helsinki, [...]
November 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
RIP N-Gage, You will be missed. I hope the Ovi store will get some good games, If not maybe I will just go back to VNES and Pico-Drive. Or maybe jump to Samsung I heard they are supposed to have Hi-Def games for some of their touch screen phones. But I will never get the I-phone. Apple needs to change their slogan to: You need an app for that! Cant do any thing on that phone without an app.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
[...] 4. Death is calling the N-Gage. [...]
November 5th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Goodbye N-Gage I’ll always miss you (very sad). Thank you for letme have fun these years. C u friends…
November 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Never a nice thing to see an old friend pass on. Worst part is that Nokia management are wholly to blame for the disaster of 2.0 and the downward spiral of the brand name. Their me-too idiocy had them starving N-Gage to try and feed Ovi in a pathetic, transparent attempt to compete with iTunes. They would have done better to grow N-Gage into an iTunes competitor with a community aspect like Last.FM or Facebook rather than just trying to copy the iTunes business model under a new name. Imitators fall and fail by the dozen, innovators get the glory. N-Gage was an innovator, Ovi is just another imitator. They hitched themselves to the wrong horse on this one.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
sad to hear that.
its time to play my QD back
November 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am
It is very bad news. I have joined to N-Gage to community only this summer together with new N79 and I very much liked many games.
Losses Nokia in 2009 not an occasion to close this excellent game tools.
Yes, you continue to do excellent smart phones with tremendous functionality, but will lose a huge share of sales of your games sold through N-Gage Store.
To whom games for such considerable price if the records, it will be impossible to exchange remarks and sentences with friends and other players are necessary?
Nokia has fallen in my opinion…
November 8th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Is it just me or do all the games on the Ovi store look like total rubbish? One thing I liked about N-Gage was that at least it was fairly easy to tell which games were good just from the publisher, whereas browsing through the Ovi games store is just slow and tedious.
I’ve been a loyal Nokia user since 1998 - changing phones almost every two years (Nokia 8110, Nokia 3310, Nokia 7650, Nokia 6600, and now Nokia N95 8GB), not because I have any particular fondness for Nokia, but because those phones were all damn good and the best at the time they were manufactured. However, the trend I see is that Nokia are not managing to compete with other manufacturers anymore, and did not even really manage to encourage developers to capitalize on the technology used in their newer phones (e.g., 3D capability), which would have kept people loyal users satisfied or impressed new users.
One would have to be blind not to forsee that loyal Nokia customers/users would be disappointed by this apparent apathy, and the closure of the N-Gage service, I’m afraid, looks like the final nail in the coffin to many loyal Nokia users (like me). I really hope that Nokia can develop and market a significantly better platform and technology within the next one year. Otherwise, my next phone might just be an Android one.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:09 am
I think I know what will happen when it closes and people need to redownload or reactivate their games. Nokia will just tell us: “tough…you’ll have to rebuy it on ovi”
It’s the part that says the service will continue to be available through 2010, but doesn’t mention what will happen afterwards that worries me. Are they saying it will cease to exist and our games will be useless if we reformat/reflash/replace our devices?
November 9th, 2009 at 5:16 am
My post was deleted?
Just confirms what I said really.
Guess nokia only want us to have an opinion if it’s in their favour.
Well done nokia. Good way to keep customers….not.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:17 am
oops…ignore that last comment….it’s showing up again now
November 9th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
it´s very bad. Goodbye N-Gage
November 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
OVI will also fail for the same reasons N-Gage failed twice. Sell your Nokia stock now!
November 14th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
can we purchase n-gage game through ovi.com???