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.
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.
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.
Polar Tigers have posted a late beta of Army vs Crime, a turn based strategy game for MidP phones, inclusing Nokia's Series 60 and N-Gage smartphones. Global Terrorism, multiple levels, and an isometric look that reminds me just a little bit of Syndicate.
Gerard Wiener, the head of Nokia's Games division including all things related to N-Gage, is to take part in a question and answer session in the N-Gage Arena chat room on Thursday the 22nd of September 2005 at 1700 UTC / 10AM PST / 6 PM London Time. You don't need to be an Arena member to enter the chat room and listen, but you need to be registered in order to talk to other people or submit questions to Gerard Wiener. Registration is free, simply click here and fill in your details to become a member.
So, teh N-Gage QD Silver? Shameless marketing? Or does it tell us more about the N-Gage Eco-system than the a simply bling paint job most people will mark it down as? Ewan's review of the Silver QD looks beyond the device to see what's happening in the N-Gage World (and yes, there are pictures).
Nokia have launched a silver version of the N-Gage QD - Ewan was at the event today, but I suspect most of the interest will be in the other titbits of news that he brings back...
Dark Kioko is a Pinball game for Series 60 devices. With a single board, and an anime theme, it's certainly a focused title, plays smoothly, and could tide over N-Gage owners until Mile High Pinball arrvies.
