Google Hits the Streets
This isn’t N-Gage-related but I thought it was too cool to pass up. Google released a street level, photographic overlay today, a beta feature that adds street-level photographs to its popular interactive mapping software.
Want to see where Ikona, Redrum, Congested and the rest of the Arena crew live, work and breathe? Follow this link to the Nokia office, click on the “STREET VIEW” button.
Then rotate the camera around until you see the big red brick building with the logo of another, cough cough, prominent gaming company. Here’s a short tutorial that shows you how the service works.
Only a few cities are covered right now, but you can see where this is going, give or take a few years. Lost somewhere? Pull out your mobile and follow the photographs home. =)
June 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am
Ok yeah it’s very cool feature. Now how about some Next Gen games related news? People need for gaming news, platform news, anything. Please I can’t live a day without going on futurewatch in hope to see something about One Who’s next or Brothers in Arms or at least about the platform. It seems like Nokia don’t even listen to it’s platform fans
Well it’s sad.
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:04 am
Is the Sega logo there because Nokia bought the whole online department, and never bothered to take the sign down? Or is there still some Sega activity in the building?
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
SciHunter, if we had some news, believe me, you would be the first to know
And Krisse, yes there is still an active Sega contingent in the building, they have got pretty much an entire floor of the building.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 am
I don’t blame you guys, I know you do the best you can. Well anyway I hope the upcoming E3 will reveal things, lots of things
just need to wait.
I still can’t make my decision weather to buy N95 or not because of this devices silence. I can’t understand why it is so hard to name the devices that will support N-gage platform Nokia already have the devices on the market as far as we know you don’t plan to making any new till the platform goes live, you already have a games which will start the platform so you can test it on each device you are planing for support, so all you need to do is to name it, and this is exactly what Nokia is not doing. Nobody asking to reveal the games itself, nobody asking to reveal some spec it’s just about the devices.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Yeah, I wish the devices were announced as well, from what I understand the issue is to do with certification of the various hardware on the devices. The level of complexity between hardware, the platform, and the games can’t be underestimated, so Nokia is being very careful not to talk about hardware before everything is totally locked down. Believe me I can sympathize, i was waiting for Mass Effect by Bioware to come out at the end of May, I even pre-ordered it, and then they just announced it’s delayed until September
June 5th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
In the blog posted before next gen is apparently limited to os9.1+. Also jbenchmark is an ok site to measure up hardware performance with current mobile devices