Nokia World Video, the N97, Boom Blox & More

Published by ikona on December 4th, 2008 in Boom Blox, Interviews, News

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.