N-Gage Users will be able to transfer their Games

Maybe you have heard about the disussion that has been kicked of by All About N-Gage a few days ago by unveiling that purchased N-Gage games are locked to one IMEI. They can be activated on one phone as often as you like e.g. after resetting your phone, but when you buy a new device or want to use your second phone, the game activation won’t work.

Nokia’s official stated policy is that N-Gage activation codes should only work on the device where they were first activated, because they feel this is an important way to combat digital piracy and ensure that their partners are not losing out on sales.

Nokia to distribute KONAMI Games for N-Gage Platform

Nokia and KONAMI, a leading global developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, today announced that KONAMI mobile titles will be added to the N-Gage mobile games platform. The mobile version of the award-winning METAL GEAR SOLID® will be the first title in the games line-up. METAL GEAR SOLID® MOBILE has received top honours at the 2007 International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA), taking both the Grand Prix and Operator’s Choice Awards.

Tetris and Block Breaker Deluxe N-Gage Games relased

Week per week are new games added to the N-Gage platform which contains now a lot of interesting games compared to the sobering release with only very few games some time ago.

Today we can welcome “Tetris” and “Block Breaker Deluxe”, two games which use a classic game principle packed into modern graphics which match to the high-end mobile gaming arena.

Install the new N-Gage Application on the unsupported Phones N73, N93 and N93i

You know that the N-Gage arena has finally gone live some days ago. Pretty quiet, with a delayed and unspectacular little message. Actually I expected the start of the long awaited gaming platform a little bit different…

Anyway, similar to the unspectacular kind of announcing the arena’s launch has been the extent – only five games and five suported devices. Currently only the N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 and N95 8GB are supported.

HOT: Are you ready? – N-Gage Arena goes live

Yes, this is the moment we have all been waiting for! Finally, after delays and delays we are now able to discover a totally new gaming experience with Nokia’s great N-Gage platform.

After N-Gage First Access has been stopped some days ago, the full arena has now gone life for the N82, N95 and N95 8GB, the N73, N93 and N93i are listed as “coming soon”.

Nokia plans to release 3D accelerated N-Gage Games

I reported about the lack of 3D acceleration in N-Gage games. A real shame, because devices like the N95 are so much more powerful: They can display amazing graphics, much better ones than normal devices.

Now there are very interesting new from the N-Gage Blog:

In a talk this afternoon, Nokia’s Peter Lykke Nielsen — with an assist from the guys at Digital Legends Entertainment — showed interested game developers how the OpenGL ES 1.1 standard will be incorporated into the N-Gage Software Development Kit (SDK) in the near future. Nielsen is the product manager of the N-Gage SDK.

N-Gage Service and new Games presented – including 3D accelerated ones

The “Game Developers Conference” has been starting today, participating in San Franciso. Nokia seems to show really interesting things there: apart from new N-Gage an SNAP games, they will present 3D accelerated games, a topic I have written about and we have discussed yesterday.

I really hope this will be a prove that Nokia is really thinking about launching 3D accelerated games also for public:

Glu Mobile unveils initial line-up of titles coming to Nokia N-Gage

The range of N-Gage games and Nokia’s cooperation with other game enterprises is constantly growing:

Nokia and Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, today announced its initial line-up of games to be launched on the N-Gage platform in 2008. The titles launching are based on two major forthcoming films from Warner Bros. Pictures, SPEED RACER and The Dark Knight, as well as Super Slam Ping Pong, a new original Glu title in the spirit of Glu’s runaway hit, Super K.O. Boxing!

Worms: World Party officially announced

Nokia and THQ Wireless Inc. (wholly owned by THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI), a leading publisher of mobile games, announced an agreement to bring Team17’s Worms World Party to a range of Nokia devices through the N-Gage games service.
 
Adam Comiskey – International VP THQ Wireless commented, “Worms has always been a great success on mobile devices and the N-Gage technology has allowed us to produce the most advanced, faithful and visually impressive mobile edition of Worms to date.”
 

Yamake – Make, Play and Share Games

Yamake for N-Gage, by Nokia Games Publishing, makes it possible for players to create their own games from a range of mini games by adding content, then playing and sharing them with friends and the wider Yamake community.

“Yamake is a groundbreaking new game for the N-Gage platform. Players can make, play and share games that are customized using user-generated multimedia content, and we are proud to be pioneering this new way of playing,” said Dr Mark Ollila, Director of Technology and Strategy and Head of Games Publishing, Nokia. “This is exactly what the future of mobile gaming should be about – creating games that you love and want to play, then sharing them with other players.”