Check out the entire 3 page interview over at Games On Deck. Some snippets: GOD: What do you consider the N-Gage Arena’s competition to be? TH: Our objective is to be the biggest and the most active mobile gaming community. Our strengths lie in the facts that we operate globally, will have a pre-installed community…
Namco and KDDI to bring mobile games from Japan to North America
North American consumers, prepare to be flushed with mobile games, as Namco and KDDI announced the partnership to bring KDDI’s large catalog of hit mobile games from Japanese publishers and developers to the market. Utilizing BREW technology, KDDI provides popular games to its more than 25 million mobile subscribers throughout Japan. Its acclaimed mobile games…
EA Mobile releases Tetris Multiplayer
Arguably the most popular game ever is about to hit the handset near you. In case you’re wondering, I’m talking about Tetris. The new mobile Tetris will be a multiplayer game, allowing players to compete with one another “over the air,” regardless of their locations, using their mobile carrier’s network.
Hands on “Creatures of the Deep” for Nokia’s Next generation gaming platform
Hm. Nokia is onto something. Just take a look at the screenshots bellow. And those are the screenshots taken on Nokia N73, a device which DOESN’T have a separate GPU, like the N93/N93i and N95 do. The graphics impress! Anyhow, “Creatures of the Deep” will is among the first games for the Nokia’s next-gen gaming…
Popeye goes mobile
Namco Networks announced plans to bring the classic arcade hit Popeye to mobile phones through a partnership with King Features. The game will resemble the classic Popeye game from the ’80s and will let players be Popeye on his quest to win back his sweetie while overcoming the antics of his rival Bluto. Collect the…
N-Gage GDC news roundup
From Nokia’s Future Watch Blog: This year’s Game Developer’s Conference has been our best yet, and the press is picking up on the N-Gage message loud and clear. Here are links to press articles about the next generation of mobile gaming: The Return of N-Gage – Games on Deck.com interviews Gregg Sauter, head of third-party…
Pictures: Nokia N-Gage at GDC
All of these are provided by Engadget:
Video: Gregg Sauter’s GDC Presentation
Can’t embed this one so you’ll have to watch it directly at Gamasutra. Little bit of a warning: it auto plays. Turn down your speakers or put headphones on. If you would rather read then check out this summary. It doesn’t compare to the video however.
Audio: GDC N-Gage podcast
Future Watch: During this week’s Game Developer’s Conference, a group of Nokia managers gathered in an undisclosed location to talk about the next generation of N-Gage. The questions on this podcast came from you, the readers of this blog and members of the N-Gage Arena community, as well as Jon Jordan from Pocket Gamer, who…
Interview: Nokia’s Head of Games Global Sales, Antoine Doumenc
Games Industry has a brief one on one with Antoine and from the first question and answer you can easily see how hard Nokia is trying to make N-Gage work: GamesIndustry.biz: Can you begin by telling us a little more about the thinking behind third-party and first-party publishing on the new N-Gage platform? Antoine Doumenc:…