Fed up waiting for N-Gage to go live? Console yourselves with this brand new games compilation from PDA maestros Astraware. After yesterday's announcement, and after a week or so of actual pre-release gameplay, Ewan presents his review of Astraware Boardgames, for both S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3. Summary: classic games, well pitched and well implemented, Boardgames only falls short of Megagame status by a gnat's whisker.

"What they'll be looking at is a collection of classic games for a wide age range - the inclusion of Tic Tac Toe and Ludo are going to keep my kids quiet on the next long car trip! Astraware are to be commended for packaging all these up in one sensibly priced application, rather than spreading them out as a number of lesser titles. By having them all together here, in a standard interface, and easily findable on a device (just find one icon, as opposed to working through eight of them), they should make a much bigger splash in the market."

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