Posts Tagged ‘N-Gage’

N-Gage Fails Again…

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Many where sceptical when Nokia launched N-Gage for the second time around, but after months and months of rumours, Nokia finally admitted defeat last Friday.

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N97 Gets N-Gage

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Nokia N97 is without doubt one of the most popular devices in the company's portfolio. Though it was unsure if it would be connected to N-Gage at launch, a dedicated client was released last week.

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N-Gage Launched on Ovi

June 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nokia's N-Gage has launched it's portfolio on Nokia's Ovi portal. As of now, consumers will be offered trial versions of all the N-Gage games, which can be unlocked through in-game payments.

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N-Gage Starts Free Demo Promotions

June 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia's N-Gage has started yet another promotion to make mobile gamers aware of their portfolio. This latest promotion offers gamers a free game code in return for opt-in text messages.

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Nokia and EA Mobile Start Dutch N-Gage Promotions

May 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Since last week, Nokia is putting a lot of effort in promoting the N-Gage service to Dutch consumers. The company offers a special trail period with six of their mobile games.

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N-Gage to ease Download Limitations?

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

One of the issues raised by consumers a long time ago was that they where not able to take their mobile games to their new N-Gage devices. N-Gage fixed this by introducing a license transfer service, but rumors say Nokia will even go beyond that.

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N-Gage and PocketGamer Launch Digital Magazine

March 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

To further promote the N-Gage service, Pocket Gamer and N-Gage teamed up to create a downloadable PDF magazine which can be freely downloaded from the N-Gage weblog.

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N-Gage Officially Dropped N73

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In our latest interview with Dr. Mark Ollila, we asked him if there where any plans on supporting the good old N73. Sadly enough, he did not give us a yes or a no when it came to this subject.

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GDC: N-Gage Hits 1 Million

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Nokia’s N-Gage platform is growing fast. Though in October, the platform was still at only 400.000 subscribers, it has now grown all the way to 1 million of them now.

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GDC: Ovi to Feature N-Gage Games

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

When released in May, the Nokia Ovi store will be offering mobile games from the N-Gage platform according to Tero Ojanpera, who was interviewed by Reuters at the GDC in San Fransisco.