Nokia sends N-Gage to glue factory News
Mobile News by Ellie Gibson
Nokia is dumping the N-Gage platform in favour of selling mobile games through the new Ovi Store.
As reported on the company's blog, N-Gage games will be available until October 2010. From then on you'll still be able to play any games you've downloaded, but no new ones will be released and community features will cease to function.
Nokia phones with the N-Gage application pre-installed will still be available to buy "for some time". However, Nokia will no longer ship new devices with the app.
Instead users will be able to get mobile games from the Ovi Store, which bears no similarities to the App Store or anything. The Ovi Store will be pre-installed on most new Nokia phones by the end of the year.
There are already more than a thousand Ovi games available including Pac-Man, The Sims 3 and Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile.
Bye-bye, N-Gage.
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For those out there who do buy a Nokia phone soon which still comes with N-Gage and get a free game activation voucher, use it to get Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep... It may sound crap but it's actually pretty good fun, and commonly accepted to be the best thing available on N-Gage. :)
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"Instead users will be able to get mobile games from the Ovi Store, which bears no similarities to the App Store or anything."
And of course the App Store bears no similarities to the N-Gage 2.0 service that came before it, or indeed the download service that was added onto the original N-Gage and QD, or any other application downloading service, ever. It's a bit of a shame though. The N-Gage service is the only one I'm aware of that offered free demos and low-cost full game rentals of absolutely every title. |
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which bears no similarities to the App Store or anything.
The sad thing is that this isn't even sarcasm or irony. The Ovi Store really is nothing like the Apple store and is a load of crap. The offerings are crap and the search returns the same 5 applications no matter what the criteria - which as I said are all crap anyway apart from an experimental "recognition" calculator which is kinda cool for 2 minutes. I uninstalled the Ovi software after 5 minutes. |
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