101February 2007

What's happening with Nokia's
next-generation N-Gage platform?

While I’m too occupied and really enjoying in playing with my new toy, amazing Nokia N95, Krisse from AAS keeping us up to date.

He found something quite interesting about long-awaited new Nokia gaming platform over the PocketGamer.

According to a report on Pocket Gamer, a secret workshop for publishers and developers on Nokia's next gen gaming platform was held in Santa Monica last week.

The two-day event saw Nokia fully unveil the new platform for the first time, with a series of technical and business presentations to fill attendees in on the specifics.

And check the calibre of some of the companies rumoured to have attended, according to a reliable source:

Disney, Sega Of America, Sony Online Entertainment, Universal, Square Enix, Capcom, THQ Wireless, Glu Mobile, Digital Chocolate, EA Mobile, Tecmo, Namco and Vivendi Games were reportedly all there, along with first-party developers (firms developing games to be published by Nokia) including Backbone Entertainment and Foundation9.

Sessions in the Business stream included an explanation of how next-gen N-Gage games will be distributed, including something intriguing called the 'N-Gage activation code system'.

Publishers will also be able to 'track and manage' their N-Gage games, which could imply you'll be able to pass games onto friends in some form, although presumably they'd have to pay to play the full version. Other business sessions covered marketing and customer service issues.

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