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Five new games announced for N-Gage in deal with Fishlabs

Published by Tzer2 at 10:44 GMT, February 19th 2009

The German mobile game company Fishlabs has announced it is to release five games on the N-Gage platform. Powerboat Challenge, Rally Master Pro and Snowboard Hero will appear in 2009, while Galaxy On Fire and Blades & Magic are coming in 2010. The full press release is below.

FISHLABS and Nokia sign N-Gage agreement
February 19, 2009


Five multiple award-winning mobile games coming to N-Gage
 
Hamburg, Germany and Espoo, Finland - Nokia and FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH, a leading developer and publisher of high-quality 3D mobile games, today announced an agreement to bring games to the N-Gage service.
 
Titles scheduled for release in 2009 include, Powerboat Challenge(TM), Rally Master Pro(TM), and Snowboard Hero(TM) followed by Galaxy on Fire(TM) and Blades & Magic(TM) in early 2010. All titles will be significantly improved in terms of graphics and sound quality and will be enhanced with additional features. With the powerful multimedia capabilities of N-Gage compatible mobile phones, FISHLABS can now offer an even better gaming experience.
 
"The N-Gage cooperation with Nokia is one of the most important milestones for FISHLABS since its founding," says Michael Schade, CEO of FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH. "Being able to market games on millions of devices with the marketing power of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer is a major success for us. Our strategy of relying exclusively on high-quality, innovative mobile games fits perfectly with that of Nokia to sell only the best products on N-Gage."
 
"The outstanding quality of FISHLABS mobile games is almost legendary, and we are pleased to have gained one of the best developers for N-Gage with FISHLABS," adds Gregg Sauter, Director, Third Party Games Publishing, Nokia. "FISHLABS' portfolio of multiple award-winning games is especially popular with core gamers and, thanks to the superior performance of the N-Gage platform; Nokia will be able to win over many fans of FISHLABS as well as new gamers for N-Gage."

Categories: Software, Developer, Industry, Games
Platforms: N-Gage

News Discussion
Tzer2
Blades And Magic is the first RPG announced for the new N-Gage platform (if you don't count COTD) so hopefully that will please N-Gagers who were calling for this genre.
Tzer2
These are the Java versions (the N-Gage versions should have upgraded graphics and other features), click on the phone screens to start the videos:

http://www.fishlabs.net/en/mobile-ga...ades-and-magic

http://www.fishlabs.net/en/mobile-ga...galaxy-on-fire

http://www.fishlabs.net/en/mobile-ga...lly-master-pro

http://www.fishlabs.net/en/mobile-ga...boat-challenge

http://www.fishlabs.net/en/mobile-ga...snowboard-hero
Kazutoyo
Excellent! I look forward to see the N-Gage versions of Blades & Magic and Rally Master Pro!
Emo185
Just to give it a more n-gage feel (and to post on blogs/forums) lol i threw this together.... as you know the pics are from the Java/ SIS Versions.



but they all look great! :D
Invocil
i must admit fishlab games have been some of the best mobile games i have played especially deep sub oddessey and Galaxy on fire, but fail to get excited about galaxy on fire on ngage. especially when i will have to wait a year to get it and a sis version has been out for over a year already. and galaxy on fire 2 is due to be released at the end of this month. i also wonder how much better the graphics on the ngage will be going by previous ports from existing games where the difference in graphics is marginal at most. think the deal will be good for fishlabs though and maybe in the years to come a custom made game for ngage will be developed stretching it to its full potential
wampyre
Of all the games mentioned I only know 2 of them.
(That is played them myself)

Blades and magic would be fun to have on N-gage, perhaps Rally Pro also depending on how they change the gameplay.
lumothesinner
emo185 and invocil - which games are .sis I thought all of their games were J2ME. Which is why i was so excited as we r not going to get any more stupid .sis ports, we are going to get new games made for n-gage, hopefully on the level of fishlabs iphone games
Tzer2
Lumo, I think all of these games are ports from Java and/or Symbian, but with enhanced graphics and possibly other features too.

However, I don't mind that as long as the ports are good, and if they sell well maybe Fishlabs will write something exclusively for N-Gage.
boxieblue
ohhhh boy! this is something i can't wait for! i have always loved Fishlabs. it all started with the old V-Rally (in association with I-Play) that had such wonderful graphics and gameplay even on low-end phones. i can't wait to see what they do with the N-Gage platform. what i am almost certain about, though, is that they are gonna take it to a whole new level and give EA and GL a run for their money

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