On the release dates, as far as I know Nokia has never officially announced any release dates for any of its games.
The 1st June date appeared on the website's One game page, but that was the only place and it was never publicised, so I suspect that was meant as an estimated date.
In short, don't believe any dates unless Nokia has actually put out a press release about them (which they haven't for any games so far).
There is reason to think Nokia wanted to release One in June, but it seems they've had some kind of last minute technical hitches. Delays like this are possibly due to bugs that come up during testing. Phone games are notoriously difficult to test due to having to support many models, many firmware versions, and many network operator variants of those models and firmware.
Most potential N-Gage phones don't have a 3D accelerator, but Nokia did say last year they intended to do two versions of some games for phones with an accelerator and those without.
So far, no games use the accelerator. However, you can still get very good and smooth 3D without an accelerator if the programmers are very clever with the graphics, for example System Rush Evolution and Creatures Of The Deep look excellent.
If Nokia ever do use the 3D accelerator in full N-Gage games, believe me we'll do a news story about it. For the moment though you can assume they don't.
20-07-2008 04:22 AM
Unregistered
Sir,
You may find this little bit off topic but do you have any idea when ONE will be available?
I have stopped believing on nokia's release dates as they never turn out to be true. ONE was supposed to be available on 1st of june.
Is there any probability that the developers will make a software rendered version available as well? If i'm not mistaken, N81 does not have 3d accelerator.
19-07-2008 09:49 PM
Tzer2
N-Gage News Round-up
It's been a busy week over on All About N-Gage, with videos, polls, sales charts, themes, the big Brothers In Arms review, and other assorted gubbins. For those of you who haven't been following AAN lately, we present a quick round-up.
