Many moons ago, Nokia purchased the Sega Dreamcast destined network gaming engine, SNAP. They've now licenced it to Gamica for their Java game, Lucky Ranch Tycoon. This ould be the first visible moving of the N-Gage Technology to other platforms,showing that while the N-Gage has more benefits to Nokia than just financial margins.
Yet another GDC N-Gage game, this time from Bonus.com. Mile High Pinball promises two player versions of the game, and the opportunity to virally beam a single player mini-application (possibly a demo level) to other N-Gage owners, design your own tables and share them on line through the Arena and even run their own customised tournaments. If you're talking about exploiting the strengths of the N-Gage, then it looks like Mile High is the way to go. No release date is announced.
From Red Lynx, the makers of Pathway to Glory comes what's already down on my 'must have' list. Announced at GDC is High Seize, a Pirate based strategy game, where you're on a quest to save your Father from the evil pirates who've kidnapped him. A nice tip of the hat to Robert Louis Stevenson, and probably the big Christmas 2005 release.
Nokia and Tantalus, at GDC (The Games Developers Conference) have officially announced Payload, a racing action game where you take the role of a Courier in a world short of fuel, ferrying what little energy there is between settlements. Previously sneak previewed as Pit Runner, there's no word on a release date yet, although we think Q3 is likely.
Well this is a sign of a good thing. Nokia have dropped their price of MMC Games Titles that should allow the existing games to be sold in the retail channels for £15 to £25 (and still let the stores make a little money themselves!). New releases will be available at mrp of £25 and these prices should translate through other territories. It's not the 'budget strategy' we suggested at Christmas, but it's a good move nonetheless.
Hayden decides to investigate the top two IM clients on his Nokia 9500 and tell you what he thinks, in this Head to Head review of IM+ and Agile Messenger. There Is a clear winner, but the journey is just as important, so best click through to the article to find out for yourself.
VisualIT has announced the availability of Rough Guide Map London. The program is an interactive map guide to London produced in conjunction with Rough Guides the well known travel publisher. Features include interactive scrollable maps, with links to place of interest, powerful search features, categorised information and more. Guides for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Madrid, New York, Paris, San Fransico and Washington are also available.
Yes folks this time it's the turn of Dampig-A to harrass your mobile phones. The Register ran the story this morning, in which details explain that the trojan pretends to be a cracked copy of FSCaller by SymbianWare, on installation the payload is to run some copies of Cabir variants and to disable some of your applications. Full details on the Trojan and removal are available at anti-virus company F-Secure's website HERE.
MessageStorer from Symbianware lets you save your SMS, MMS and email messages to a text file so that you can archive them or send them to a PC. You can select which folders and messages to include in any export and then send to a nother device via email, Bluetooth or Infrared.
Yet more OPL programs from Steve Litchfield. To co-incide with the start of the Formula One season this weekend, Pitstop is released for Series 80. Take on the role of Team Manager in this strategy simulation and see if your Drivers can be World Champions, and if your team can win the Constructors Trophey. Featuring all the drivers and teams from this years championship, Pitstop is fully working shareware.
MobyMemory.com have today released their new 2GB MMC memory cards to the UK and European market, compatible with all recent MMC-slot Nokia mobiles, such as the Nokia 6600, Nokia N-Gage/QD, Nokia 9500. Other formats, such as RS-MMC are expected to follow in time, with larger sized DV RS-MMC also coming soon.
Series 60 version 3 was recently announced, and Ewan's been having some thoughts on this one. Yes it's the promised 'mass market' Series 60 platform, but what does it do and how will it affect the end user, the developer and the networks? Heres his views on S60 v3.
Great Ape Software have released No Man's Land for UIQ. This game in the style of Command and Conquer pits you against your phone in a battle for control of land and oil wells. Features include advanced AI opponent, save game feature, and multiple levels. There are 22 built in scenarios and 3 different difficulty settings. The game also has a scenario editor and a random level generator so you'll never run out of level to play.
It's now time for you to pick your favourite Winter photos from the 7 displayed * here *. This poll will close on 20th March 2005 & Good Luck to all taking part.
As well as writing about 3GSM, Rafe and Ewan have been working on The Mobiles Podcast (from Cannes). In this show, we chat to Sir Peter Gershon (Symbian), Lee Epting (Forum Nokia), Johan Sondberg (UIQ) and David Limp (Palmsource), while Rafe and I chat about the new version of Series 60, UIQ and Symbian OS 9. You can download the MP3 from the The Podcast Network.
