GLOBAL – The concept of ’social location gaming’ is reasonably simple, but this innovative twist to more traditional mobile gaming engagement promises to change the way we play games on the move and how we behave socially through mobile play. It’s an exciting area of development, and one that Nokia is keenly immersed in evolving. Nokia’s Director of Games, Jaako Kaidesoja, has written an interesting essay all about it, simply entitled ‘Location, location, location’. Earlier today I began picking out the highlights to run in this piece, but quickly realized that the it’s much better enjoyed in its entirety – there’s so much interesting stuff in there, it’d be a crime to put it under the editor’s knife.
His article addresses the ’social location’ buzzword and asks the questions of what it actually means for mobile games and the industry? Read on for the full-length essay on social location gaming from Nokia’s Director of Games.
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GLOBAL – Nokia has given the nod to motion control gaming on N-Gage, via an updated version of a game called Bounce Boing Voyage. The first N-Gage game to exploit the accelerometer hidden beneath the skin of N-Gage friendly handsets including the Nokia N79, N82, N85, N95, N95 8GB, N96 and 6210 Navigator, the motion control version of Bounce Boing Voyage is slated to launch later this spring.
Read on to find out how the motion control action plays out, and more details including its showcase at this week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
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GLOBAL – The new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has refused to follow the predictable path, instead introducing a marvelous misfit element to the XpressMusic range courtesy of its slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Combining the ultimate quick messaging interface with an avalanche of social, sharing and on-the-go entertainment services, it’s clear that Nokia threw out the cookie cutter when creating the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic.
Read on to get the full lowdown on the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, including details on it’s premium gaming credentials, its price tag and when it’s slated to ship.
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GLOBAL – One of the world’s best-selling board games, Monopoly, is set to hit N-Gage handsets next week. Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition by EA will be available to download and to celebrate it’s going to be available for the first month with 30 per cent off. When the game was first announced on N-Gage.com last month, there was plenty of excitement. But that’s no surprise, given the game’s global nature, and appeal. I know i’m pretty excited about getting my hands on it.
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ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has just revealed the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic handset. In the same vein as it’s 5800 XpressMusic sibling the new Nokia 5630 is far from a conventional music phone – a fully fledged member of the S60 family, this slender smartphone has a host of unlikely talents, such as being the slimmest N-Gage device yet at just 12mm thin.
Read on for details of Nokia’s newest music phone and get the full lowdown on its surprising features.
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BARCELONA, Spain – Another Nokia World is over and I have to say it’s been by far the most exciting one yet. One of the most impressive devices (the most impressive device) ever to come out of Espoo was revealed and the reaction has been utterly stunning.
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BARCELONA, Spain – With the N97 changing things for Ngage through the introduction of new kinds of games and technologies, next year promises to be pretty exciting. But that isn’t all for Ngage. Jaakko Kaidesoja, VP of games gave us a little insight into what we might see from Ngage in the future. Context is king in that location is going to play a much bigger part in gaming in the future. Music too will have tighter integration and Jaakko’s team are already in the process of developing new music based initiatives. We’ll have another video with Jaakko later on, but for now here’s his view of what we can expect to see in 2009.
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GLOBAL – As the N-Gage platform gradually evolves, with more devices becoming compatible with the service (the N78 and 6210 navigator earned their N-Gage wings last week), it’s interesting to see an N-Gage game emerge that embraces non N-Gage handsets. The game in question, is a curious upcoming title called Yamake, and what particularly stands out about this cutesy game is that N-Gage players can share levels and aspects of the game with friends with S60 3rd edition devices that don’t support the N-Gage platform.
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GLOBAL – Back in July we talked about the birth of the N-Gage Feedback Forum, a fresh approach that encourages anyone to make suggestions and vote on ways to make N-Gage better. It was a little sink or swim back then, but this next-gen suggestion box has turned out to be a great tool that the mobile gaming community has keenly adopted, and most importantly is actually affecting real changes and developments.
Read on to find out what’s happening as a result…
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ROME, Italy – Ghostwire might’ve nabbed the top slot at the Nokia Games Innovation Challenge, but the runners-up – Melokey and Watchers – look equally comfortable tightrope-walking the mobile gameplay cutting-edge. We’ve corralled a couple of videos featuring the key minds behind these envelope-pushing portable games.
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GLOBAL – The concept of ’social location gaming’ is reasonably simple, but this innovative twist to more traditional mobile gaming engagement promises to change the way we play games on the move and how we behave socially through mobile play. It’s an exciting area of development, and one that Nokia is keenly immersed in evolving. Nokia’s Director of Games, Jaako Kaidesoja, has written an interesting essay all about it, simply entitled ‘Location, location, location’. Earlier today I began picking out the highlights to run in this piece, but quickly realized that the it’s much better enjoyed in its entirety – there’s so much interesting stuff in there, it’d be a crime to put it under the editor’s knife.
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