Nokia and Electronic Arts yesterday announced a collaboration that will see EA become a major supplier of mobile games to millions of Nokia mobile device owners through Nokia Content Discoverer. Initially, customers will be able to download seven EA titles – Tetris, Tetris Mania, The Sims2, Doom, FIFA 06, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06 and…
Affordable N-Gage Games
At the moment of this writing, N-Gage Game Shop has 10 downloadable games in its inventory. Three of them are really affordable with prices of 9.99 EUR per download. Mentioned games are: High Seize – a strategy game which takes you to the 17th century Caribbean – a world of explorers and pirates, and nations…
Creating feature rich connected games with SNAP Mobile
SNAP Mobile powered games let users connect, compete and communicate with their friends; and have community features such as ranking, match making and personalization features that promote participation and create returning users and very repeat business. Ferdy Blaset, a Forum Nokia Champion, has a very interesting post on the subject. He uses Lucky Ranch Tycoon,…
Ten tips for making better games
Not exactly the pure Symbian topic, but somehow related. In a recent interview Jeanne Kolesnik from Epocware shared advice for Symbian developers on how to create a successful mobile applications people want to buy. On the similar subject, Pocket Gamer site managing director, shares some guidelines that could help mobile developers everywhere make better games.…
Nokia N93 to bring 3d gaming
Fuad Abazovic from The Inquirer heard from several sources that Nokia N93 features Power VR architecture inside. It uses a new Texas instruments Omap 2 chip that uses the Power VR, MXB core inside. Now, I didn’t know which chip N93 will sport, but support for the OpenGL ES 1.1 was already announced. Even more,…
SkyForce – great looking classic shooter game
Many great reviews and awards, plus the newly announced support for Symbian 9.x handsets, made me try SkyForce from Infinite Dreams. It is an ultimate classic arcade shooter with 3d interactive objects, outstanding graphics, special effects, soundtrack and 100% of pure gameplay. The game truly pushes the limits of your handset to the maximum. Seven…
HomeRun for S60 3rd edition
ZingMagic, a developer of popular puzzle games, released HomeRun – a highly addictive card solitaire game – for new Nokia S60 3rd Edition phones. Highlights: Choice of layouts Choice of backgrounds Full undo of moves High score table Full player statistics Supports English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. HomeRun will certainly feel your time. But…
Lock ‘n Load 2 brings never-seen-before 3D graphics
Stockholm-based mobile games publisher, Blaze, created Lock ‘n Load 2 – the new Doom-like best-so-far 3D deathmatches for Symbian mobile phones. The game employs “mophun”, software that enables developers to plug-in lots of basic but fast functionality so they can get on with designing their game. Multi-player gaming (up to 8 players) is also supported…
Nokia: The new game plan
Gamasutra did an interview with Nokia’s Gregg Sauter about the future of the company’s mobile game strategy. It seems that nokia will soon release the new “game optimized devices” that feature landscape-oriented screens, game controls, and so forth. Also, as a result of the Nokia and ATI partnership, some of these devices will feature ATI…
Super GoBoy for Nokia 7710
The original Gameboy Color Emulator from WildPalm is now available for Symbian Series 90 devices, namely Nokia 7710. Super GoBoy will drastically expand the number of games you can play on you 7710, as you will be able to play hundreds of Gameboy titles.