Nokia are ´actively working on offering more community elements through Ovi´ and will ´encourage developers to use community features in their applications´. Nokia´s future gaming strategy will be based on Ovi Store distribution. However, subsequently, the online elements of N-Gage games will no longer work. The online (Arena) elements will continue to work throughout 2010. However new devices will not ship with the N-Gage application.Īll current N-Gage will continue to work. The N-Gage application will continue to ship on some older devices. Other parts of the N-Gage service, including N-Gage Arena, will be availale throughout 2010.

N-Gage games can be purchased until September 2010. Nokia term this an ´evolution of their mobile gaming service´, but there´s no getting away from the fact that represents a failure of the N-Gage service. Instead games will be made available via the Ovi Store. Nokia will no longer publish new games via the N-Gage service. Furthermore the lack of graphic acceleration hardware in recent Nokia S60 phones have left N-Gage games looking lacklustre, in eye-candy terms, when compared to the iPhone and other mobile gaming platforms. Its ease of distribution advantages has been overtaken by the rise of App Stores similarly online service elements are now relatively common.

N-Gage was never able to move beyond a niche community. As a result, in both vision and execution, it did not fit fully fit into the Ovi service portfolio, especially after the launch of Ovi Store earlier this year.Ĭlearly Nokia will look to push its gaming strategy forward under the Ovi Store umbrella, but it is a long way from both dedicated gaming unit (N-Gage first generation) and a gaming focused platform and community (N-Gage second generation).

However it is also fair to say that N-Gage really pre-dated the Ovi strategy. The closure of the N-Gage service is a blow to Nokia´s service ambitions. Global Cricket N-Gage 2.0 By Gamelion S60v3.

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