Ever looked at those MMC Game Cards for the Nokia N-Gage and thought that they were missing something? Ewan has, and here's his thoughts on spicing up the MMC Game Cards.
Got yourself a Symbian Smartphone? Found All About Symbian? Then you need to read our First Steps with Symbian article - a whistle stop tour of recommended software and links to other sites you should find interesting. And I'm sure the regulars will add comments on all the things we've not mentioned.
Oh dear. Puzzle Bobble may have a long and noble line of covnersions in the past, but the N-Gage version isn't one of them. Ewan reviews the MMC Game Card, and decides a Zeppelin award is the least he can offer.
Ewan takes a look at Pandemonium in the first All About N-Gage review of the MMC Game Cards. Is this platformer up to representing the might and power of the N-Gage in the market place? Read on...
YewNes is a NES emulator for S60. In other words, it lets you play Nintedo 8-bits games on a Nokia S60 mobile - including the N-Gage. You can play any NES game on you mobile, and play anytime and anywhere.
Want to get some N-Gage games for Christmas? If so consider using Allack, an independent online N-Gage retailer. Up to £10 the full price of games. But hurry if you want an order to arrive pre-Christmas; the site advises ordering before 3pm on Thursday. Remember you can always accidentally leave a piece of paper with the URL and the game you want circled somwehere obvious.
Woolies (aka Woolworths - a UK high street chain) are selling limited numbers of N-Gages in some of their stores for £129.99. This is the lowest price seen in the UK so far, and brings the N-gage within £30 of the RRP for the Gameboy.
An interesting Open Source J2ME Library has been released via SourceForge. The J2ME Game Libary is targeted at MIDP1.0 devices (such as the N-Gage), and provides classes for dealing with repainting, sprites and movement. Let's see what the Java programmers can do with that.
Over on Russell Beattie's Weblog, he points out not only that it's been 10 years of DooM, but after a long courtship, he's starting to really enjoy portable gaming on his N-Gage... perhaps not in the way that Nokia intended, though.
UK Newspaper The Guardian talks about the speed in which mobile gaming has taken off in the last 18 months. The article is available at Guardian Online, and while there are some steps that seem a bit illogical, it's a nice read.
Tapland, a site for the Tapwave Zodiac (Palm OS powered Gaming Device) is reporting that Stunt Car Extreme multi-player is cross compatible between the N-Gage and the Zodiac. So if you have one of the devices, it can multi-player with the same device, or the other one! Now this is the way forward. With the Zodiac acceptting MMC cards (like the N-Gage) perhaps we'll see MMC cards with versions for both Palm OS and Symbian OS shipping in the future? Imagine that...
Ewan has (finally) got his hands on an N-Gage, and the long term review has been done to death on the internet. So her'es his review after (about) 30 minutes with the N-Gage. AAN's previous in-depth look at the N-Gage is still online.
December 8, 2003 - Nokia today announced Operation Shadow, its second own published title for the N-Gage game deck. Operation Shadow is a war themed 3D action adventure that immerses gamers into the world of heavy combat action, lightning strikes and the latest military equipment. With multiplayer support for up to 4 players via Bluetooth wireless technology, Operation Shadow allows for fast-paced and action-packed competitive game play.
It's the sort of thing any James Bond needs to know - how to be cool when playing Bridge... after all, we have the "Q" Gadgets in our phones! But can Cascata's Bridge for Series 60 help you learn? Over to Ewan's review to find out.
To go along with the new release of the OPL Runtime, FreEPOC and Ewan Spence have released an update to Vexed - The Ancient Riddles. Join Sekushi Dianno as she journeys through Puzznic's puzzles, now with full Menu support and a standard S60 interface.
