Last week, All About N-Gage recieved one of the first review copies of Pathway to Glory. After some intensive and hard fought battles on the N-Gage Arena, Ewan is finally ready to give his verdict. Here it is... the first Pathway to Glory review, anywhere in the world. No previews. No demo builds. The actual product. And it looks like it's our first Mega Game.
Nokia's massive multiplayer game, Pocket Kingdom is now available to order internationally from N-Gage User. No matter where you are in the world, the land of Ulgress is yours for the taking. But with up to 1000 other players trying to do the same, it's not going to be easy...
Ewan's been taking a look at the latest Racing Game for the N-Gage. Read his thoughts on Asphalt before climbing into your Jaguar to race round Paris in the free demo from Nokia.
More thoughts from Russ Beattie, this time on the thorny issue of Piracy of N-Gage MMC Games. It's no huge secret that if you want the MMC Games, you can find them online and load up a massive MMC card, and we're wondering what Nokia can do about it. But Russ has another thought - that the easy availability of games is actually helping the N-Gage unit sales. What it's doing to the Developers bottom line I guess depends on the licencing contract with Nokia, but all the developers we've talked to are happy to continue working on new N-Gage titles. Somewhere the spreadsheet must be balancing out...
Wildpalm are currently offering up to 60% off all their Series 60 Games and Emulators for a limited time. With delights such as thier Gameboy Emulator and 3d Action in Meltdown, it's probably worth a look at the demo versions to see if it's worth it.
Someone must have knocked some sense in the guys from Actimagine since they finally decided to offer a end user package of Mobiclip for the price of 15.90 euro. It has reached version 3.0 and it doesn't support every Symbian device. You can download a trial version here.Those who don't know what Mobiclip is, read on.
To go along with the release of Gameloft's Asphalt: Urban GT for the N-Gage, Nokia are offering a free playable demo of Asphalt available over the internet. The huge reaction to the Pathway to Glory demo must have struck Nokia as amazing (and the rest of the gaming world as obvious), but congratulations are in order for Nokia for continuing to offer this. Our review of the full version of Ashpalt will be up by the end of the week, but until then, you can check it out yourself on Nokia's Asphalt Mini Site.
Over a year after the launch of the original N-Gage, and some 7 months since the QD shipped with one, Nokia have released the 'Arena Launcher' for the original N-Gage. Effectivly a customised browser for the Arena Services, you can browse the Arena Forums, check out the latest news, and message other users. or you could just go to All About N-Gage Mobile instead.
Makayama Software have announced the released of DVD To Mobile (Series 60) to complement their previous offering of DVD To Mobile (UIQ). Acting as a single interface to ripping, editing and encoding your DVD Collection to MPEG4, we'll review both versions in the near future.
Scottish Rally Driver Colin McRae left Finalnd today. At least the N-Gage MMC based Rally game bearing his name (Colin McRae Rally 2005) has shipped, and should be with your N-Gage retailers (online and in the shops) shortly.
Electronics Boutique will be hosting in store 'download stations' (reports CNN and others). Powered by Wideray's Bluettoth station, it's just a simple matter of waking into Bluetooth range of a store to access the products available to buy.
Masabi are behind another "Bush/Kerry" mobile phone game, but their Pick the Prez allows you to send an electronic vote back to the website so your voice can be heard.
Available for UIQ and Series 60, Concrete Software's Texas Hold Em Poker has been dealt a review from Ewan. Multiple versions over multiple platforms, all based on one game. Did they fold under the pressure?
Christopher Rydberg reviews Ashen, the latest Nokia-branded first person shoot-em-up for the N-Gage and Series 60. Read his blood-curdling account here.
