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Nokia’s N-Gage coming out party will be at GDC 2007

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 3:19 PM

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Nokia will reveal its next-gen N-Gage mobile games platform publicly for the first time at the Game Developers Conference next month.
The news comes as Nokia conducts a series of closed door N-Gage developer and publisher workshops in Santa Monica and, next week, Madrid.

Speaking in an interview to be published in Mobile Entertainment magazine next week, Nokia’s head of games Jaakko Kaidesoja said a GDC unveiling was highly likely.

"One of the main events for us is GDC in San Francisco in early March and that’s really where you can expect some announcements," he said. "We will be present at 3GSM for various meetings, but we are gearing up to have more information at GDC."

Kaidesoja also played down continued speculation that a new games-optimised N-Gage device is on the way, stressing that the new N-Gage platform would be made available across a range of vanilla Series 60/Nseries devices right from the start.

“We’re working on gaming ergonomics across our range, but there are no plans for new a N-Gage device at the moment,” he says. “For sure it’s a hot topic and everyone wants to know about it, but first and foremost we want to bring the new platform to market and make sure it works across a range of devices.”

So there you have it. However, given Nokia’s strategy to optimise its Nseries devices for content verticals like TV, music, web access and imaging, we’d perhaps be foolish to rule out one for games.

Source: Mobile Entertainment

Via: Future Watch

3GSM, CTIA, GDC … so many events, and we haven’t even reached the second quarter of 2007!

I can’t wait to see this honestly. I know I’ve presented myself as an N-Gage cynic before, but how can you not after the first iteration of the device.

Hello N-Gage 2.0: A platform (and by platform I mean phones made by Nokia only, never mind the other S60 devices on the market made by other manufactures)!

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Viipottaja

    Can’t wait! Nokia had the vision, innocent stupidity, and gut to launch the original N-Gage and the QD, learned in the process, and is now light years ahead of any competition in pushing the cell phone gaming experience.

  • markita

    I really would like to get my screen fixed, on my n gage, i think they should just have a website for just that, i’ve had it since 04, no matter with phones comes out, nothing is sicker then the n gage!!!!