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N-Gage Friday: Festive Feature or Here To Stay?
What happens when you have regular releases, and everyone expects a game on a certain day? You have a good feeling building around your platform. Will Nokia continue the regularity of the N-Gage game releases in 2009? Ewan think aloud on what could happen in the New Year.
Resident Evil Degeneration available on N-Gage platform
Yes, we know we're very late in reporting this, but better late than never... The new installment of Capcom's infamous franchise Resident Evil: Degeneration is available on the N-Gage platform. Based on a recent CGI film of the same name, RE:D is a horror survival game where you have to fight zombies in an airport. Not very seasonal, but there you go! You can get the game from the N-Gage application's showroom section, if you can't see it select "Options" and "Update Now" and then "Available Games", and you may also see it in the "Latest Games" section.
Take To The Streets for some GTA Style Car Jacking
UK Publisher Tag Games has been working on a GTA styled mobile game for many months, and now Car Jack Streets is available for download. Given that the Tag founders were part of the original design team for the first Grand Theft Auto, it's no surprise that this is an addictive little mobile game, that makes best use of the smartphone environment. Ewan's full review can be found here.
FIFA09 out now on N-Gage
Electronic Arts' football simulator FIFA 2009 is now available on the N-Gage platform. Just open your phone's N-Gage app, go to the Showroom section, select "Options" and then "Update Now" to see it. (It should also become available through the N-Gage website over the next day or two, if you prefer to install games through your computer.) This release is a bit of a surprise, as it had only just been announced a few weeks ago and hadn't even made it into N-Gage.com's upcoming games list. Obviously EA were working on this a long time before they announced it.
N-Gage application updated to 1.10(1345)
As well as releasing the N-Gage application for the N78 and 6210 Navigator, Nokia has also updated the app to version 1.10(1345) for all compatible phones. To get the updated version: open the N-Gage app, select "Options" and then "Check For Updates", then select your phone model from the list and follow the on-screen instructions (don't worry about any messages saying you've already got the installer, just say yes to everything). Note that the new version is not compatible with certain firmware versions on the N81 or N81 8GB, check the official N81/N81 8GB download page for more details.
Dance Fabulous - new first party title for N-Gage
Today, at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome, Nokia announced the forthcoming availability of Dance Fabulous, a new firsty party game title for N-Gage. It is a dancing / rythmn game where you create and customise a dancer (avatar) and then lead it through dance moves. The games has built in community and sharing features and comes with a set of music created by Dave Stewart and sung by Cindy Gomez.
ONE is now available on N-Gage
The long-awaited 3D fighting game ONE is out now on the N-Gage platform. Go to the Showroom section of the app and select the Update Now option to see it. For more info see All About N-Gage's ONE game page, and the official trailer is visible below.
DChoc Cafe Solitaire 12 Pack out now on N-Gage
The card game DChoc Cafe Solitaire 12 Pack is now available on the N-Gage platform. You can download it by going to the application's showroom section, then selecting "Options" and "Update Now". Alternatively you may want to try out the unofficial games Astraware Solitaire or some of the other card and board games available for N-Gage-compatible devices.
Pro Series Golf updated to fix compatibility problems, now available on 5320 too
Nokia's Pro Series Golf has been updated to a new version which fixes compatibility problems with v1.10 of the N-Gage application. This means it should now work properly with the latest N-Gage app update, and it also means it's now available on the 5320 XpressMusic for the first time. You can get the latest version by downloading the trial from the Showroom, if you've already bought the game it should automatically unlock itself into the purchased version.
Classic emulators come to the Unofficial Games section
We've now added a selection of computer and console emulators to All About N-Gage's Unofficial Games section, so you can play the games of yesteryear on your N-Gage-compatible phone. They can be slightly complicated to use, but once you've got the hang of it they're all broadly similar.
