February 14th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 1 Comment »
The Mobile World Congress seems swamped with fresh N-Gage news. This time, the folks over at Nokia have launched a User Generated Mobile Game service called Yamake.
With Yamake, Nokia takes on the direct competition with the service from Playoo. It has to be said though that the service from Playoo is available to most flash lite devices, while Yamake is only available to N-Gage devices from Nokia.
“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
Mobile phones have all the attributes of a games machine: a screen, memory, processing power and an input device. They also have the advantage of connectivity. So it is of little surprise, given the sheer numbers, that the most distributed and the most played game in the world today is Snake on Nokia handsets. Yet this is a false beacon because mobile phone gaming is a very tiny fraction of the size that it should and could be.