Nokia kills N-Gage gaming.

Monday 2nd November 2009 - 17:00


Games service set to die in 2010 plus zombies take over London streets and Just Cause 2 screens



The N-Gage is finally being laid to rest as Nokia has announced it is set to abandon N-Gage games. No new N-Gage titles will be released, with the community website shutting down at the end of the year, although users will be able buy existing games until the end of September 2010.

The clunky mobile gaming platform failed on two attempts in both 2003 and more recently in 2008 to capture the imagination of gamers, with a poor supporting line-up of only 30-odd games and stiff competition from the likes of Sony's PSP and the Nintendo DS.

In the future all games available to Nokia handset owners will be shifted to its apps store, Ovi Store. "It's much more convenient to have one place to get all your mobile games, and this it what Ovi Store provides," said Nokia on the N-Gage blog.

Meanwhile, news has reached us that Halloween certainly went with a bang in London as a legion of blood hungry video game fans got their dose of 'monster-mania' as a horde of zombies descended on Tate Modern.

Fans of legendary zombie game series Resident Evil took to the streets in a mass Zombie Walk, marking the end of the London Games Festival and celebrating a bumper year in monster-driven entertainment.

More than 50 undead game fans were staggering and moaning, limping and rampaging in the mass Zombie Walk to celebrate the launch of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on the Nintendo Wii at the end of November. Certainly more effective than an advertising billboard!

Finally we've got some brand new screens from Just Cause 2 the open world action game forthcoming from Eidos. Players get to choose whatever missions they want, commandeer over 100 different vehicles and play with more weaponry than the US army. We ask you, what's not to like? A release is scheduled for the middle of 2010 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.