It’s not a news that Nokia bets heavily on the mobile gaming. This time its the complete NGage platform instead of a single device. And now, we’ve found a new patent from the Finish giant that should improve the way of playing mobile games. The idea is to use the phone’s stylus as a joystick.…
Nokia is going to sponser GCDC 2007
All About Symbian: Nokia and their N-Gage sub-brand are sponsoring the GCDC 2007 game developers’ conference, which takes place in August in Leipzig, Germany. Nokia’s Next Gen Gaming Platform is due to launch shortly afterwards in September, so there should be a complete unveiling of the platform at the conference if not earlier. I wish…
All About Symbian looks at where N-Gage came from and how it will be better in its second iteration
There has been an endless amount of text written about mobile gaming and the original N-Gage smartphone, much of it driven by personal taste ("I never use phone games" or "I never use games consoles") rather than a balancing of the facts. In order to cut through all the ideological hot air, this article will…
Next-gen gaming platform set for launch in September 2007
The recently announced N-Gage Future Watch website revealed the date of the platform launch – September 2007. From that point and until the end of the year, N-Gage fans can see many popular titles hitting the market. EA Mobile and Gameloft will be among the first to bring a number of its top-selling, award-winning titles…
Nokia introduces its Next-Gen gaming platform to developers!?
Nokia’s Next-Gen gaming platform is coming and there’s nothing new about it. However, thanks to the PocketGamer, we know that Nokia held a secret workshop for the small group of American and Asian publishers. Of course, the small group is also THE group, and includes such companies like Disney, EA, Sega, THQ, Namco, Capcom and…
fMSX 3.1 for S60 3rd edition devices released
fMSX is a program that emulates MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. The program will run MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ cartridge files (.rom and .rom.gz). The new version also supports disk images (.dsk and .dsk.gz). Starting the games is easy – place your files into “E:\Others\fMSX”. If your phone has no keyboard, or its…
Napoleonix for Symbian UIQ 3 released
Yet another game from Insenic has been recently released for the Symbian UIQ 3 platform (no UIQ 2 version this time) – Napoleonix. The game combines strategic and tactical planning employed in turn-based strategies, with some elements of card game-like psychology (i.e. bluffing). The main thing about Napoleonix is that your opponent doesn’t know where…
Tomb Raider coming to Nokia’s Next-Gen gaming platform
In its interview to MobileIndustry.biz, Simon Protheroe, director of new media and IT at Eidos, announced the Tomb Raider games are coming on the Nokia NSeries devices. Now, I’ve already seen Tomb Raider on the NGage device, but this is the announcement which involves Nokia’s Next-Gen platform. “I think because the financial risks for mobile…
Virtual GameBoy Advance for S60 3rd edition devices updated
Marat Fayzullin, developer of many emulators for Symbian-powered devices, released the updated version of Virtual GameBoy Advance (VGBA). For those not familiar, VGBA, now in version 3.1.2, is a GameBoy Advance emulator for Nokia S60 3rd edition smartphones. For the updated version, Marat worked on the new THUMB CPU emulation in tight assembly that should…
Action racing game – K-Rally
Infinite Dreams, a developer of SkyForce and SkyForce Reloaded, release a new top-down racing game. In K-Rally you’re not a “standard” racer – your vehicle is equipped with mines and rockets, and have several levels of upgrades available to your tires (grip), engine (speed), and armor (durability). K-Rally gives you the power to leave a…