A downloadable demo of Catan for N-Gage has just been made available on N-Gage.com. Catan, pubilshed by Capcom, is a strategy game based on the extremely popular German board game "Siedler Von Catan" which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The full Catan N-Gage game went on sale earlier this month.
Crystaix's puzzle game, JewelRumble for Series 60, has had a minor update to version 1.2.1. Internet high score tables and addictive modes of gameplay mean it's worth having a look at this java title.
With the sneaky URL name of www.1001111-1001110-1000101.org, Nokai have launched the website for their 3D Beat-em-up, One. Worth checking out because whoever designed the site must have seriously been on the hard stuff with the interface they've come up with. One is due out before Christmas.
Two events co-incided this week which are relevant to anyone interested in Symbian gaming, or gaming in general. The first was Gerard Wiener (head of Nokia's Games division including N-Gage) having a meeting with Japanese games publishing giant Square Enix at the CTIA mobile entertainment trade fair in San Francisco. The second was an interview with Yoichi Wada, the President of Square Enix. During the interview, Wada stated that the future of gaming lay with online games both on PCs and on mobile phones. He said they wanted to get away from the current console-controlled games market and go to a model where software was king. He explained Square Enix's plans to expand into the mobile phone online world. Even more tantalisingly, their mobile phone Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games, already released on Japanese FOMA Symbian phones, would be released in North America and Europe towards the end of 2006. That would of course be just in time for the Nokia Next Gen MoGaSo's first Christmas.
Who needs all the glamour and expense of European racing when you have American Racing 3D from MH Soft bringing you the whole Stock Car experience, from road courses to monster ovals. 7 tracks, 11 opponents and 6 cars to choose from should be enough to keep anyone going round in circles.
Following up previous speculation, we can confirm that Nokia will be announcing "the next phase in the evolution of the leading mobile gaming device - the N-Gage" on October 13th, in Barcelona. Naturally we'll be there to bring you the news on what our Finnish gamers are up to as soon as it happens. Let the speculation begin!
The Christmas 2005 N-Gage games satart arriving, and first up is System Rush, Ewan's got the full review on Ideaworks 3D, quite frankly, amazing futuristic racing/hacking arcade game. And once you're finished with the review, grab the free demo from Nokia before rushing out to the shops.
Nokia have been chatting to all the N-Gage webmasters out there, and the result is "Meet The N-Gage Fan Sites," of which All About N-Gage is featured. We're honoured to be listed as the number one fan site "...one of the most comprehensive N-Gage Web sites... [and] one of the busiest, too"
What's the sudden fascination with pinball on smartphones all of a sudden? Here's the next version to try and tempt you to go with them - it's Soccer Pinball, and it's available for both Series 60 and UIQ devices.
Nokia's E3 website this year had a section on their Next Generation of games-capable smartphones which are due to launch in 2006. The site told us a lot about the Next Gen which will replace the current generation N-Gage: the Next Gen will have next generation graphics, the games will be sold entirely as downloads direct to phone or via your PC, and the games will work on a wide range of Nokia Symbian smartphones, not just one model. It also said more information would become available in September including details of the launch games lineup, but a source tells us the official press briefing may happen on October the 1st. Hints at the contents of the announcement may also be revealed during the N-Gage chief's webchat on Thursday 22nd of September.
For all the musically minded smartphone users, LonelyCat's UltraMP3 player now supports Ogg Vorbis playback (an open source file format with greater compression than MP3 for similar sound quality). Version 1.5 is currently available for Series 60, and we'd expect the UIQ and Series 80 versions to follow in good time.
More theme/customisation fanpacks from N-Gage.com, with High Seize the latest addition. Nice to see these, but the big question to me is why these aren't supplied in the MMC cards along with the game, as well as on the web. Surely the more value in the MMC Game Cards, the better?
Last year was the year of Snakes, this year All About N-Gage is putting the petty cash on Mile High Pinball to be the game everyone talks about. Dennis Roy is helping guide that game into the hands of as many N-Gage'rs as possible. So we decided to find out just how high this mile is, as we interview Dennis Roy about Mile High Pinball...
Redshift's monster RPG game has the biggest exapnsion pack yet, in Legends 2. Take the Legacy engine and push it to the limits - play as good or evil in a world of warcraft, sorcery, arena challenges and adventures.
