N-Gage News

Nokia Keynote: The Next Generation of Mobile Gaming

Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 07:57 PM

Game Developer's Conference
Gamasutra has the scoop on Nokia's GDC Keynote last week:

"Their plan is to beef up their N-Gage arena content to work with Smartphones, very much mimicking the Xbox Live Arcade experience. You can have a gamer profile and avatar (or take your own picture with your cameraphone), and win N-Gage points (NGPs). Though he mentioned nothing of this during the keynote, many have guessed that Nokia plans to make N-Gage content downloadable to Smartphones in the relatively near future."



Unfortunately, Nokia made no specific mention of any next-generation plans for the N-Gage service itself, leaving us to speculate about what they might be planning. All we know is what they said in the press release: “Nokia's next generation mobile games platform is expected to launch in the first half of 2007, with a range of titles and devices.”

Read the full article at GamaSutra.com.