With the MWC and now GDC events under our belt, Ewan Spence draws from all the clues that Nokia has been dropping and comes up with a connected, converged epiphany into the future of gaming. The unification of smartphone functions, social networking and gaming is just around the corner, perhaps. Personally, I can't see any real showstoppers.

"Contextual games."

"Games that use everything in the phone, including, I suspect, the camera, the GPS, your mapping, multimedia, and even the built in ways to talk to the user - such as the SMS example from 2005 - could well be the ways where the N-Gage service can differentiate itself clearly in the mind of games players."

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