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Nokia Officially Announces Death of N-Gage
What could be a more fitting story on Halloween than one concerning the actual appearance of the living dead? And by living dead, we of course refer to the N-Gage, which despite all rules of natural science has somehow managed to stagger back into the news again: Nokia has announced that they are officially discontinuing support for the ill-fated cell phone/gaming handheld/application, with no more games being published and community support going offline at the end of September 2010 (via VG247).
Evidently this means the N-Gage was still technically alive all these years (who knew?), but that'll change by this time next year. "While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will remain in operation throughout 2010, the Ovi Store will be the new central place for all the mobile games that Nokia and other publishers offer from this point forward. We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform," reads a post on Nokia's blog.
"Your games are safe -- all your purchased N-Gage games will continue to work on your N-Gage compatible mobile device and they?re yours to keep," they reassure they're loyal N-Gage fans. "However, community features of the games will not be functional after 2010." Nokia will continue to sell current devices that have the N-Gage application pre-installed "for some time," but "will no longer ship new devices with the application pre-installed." |
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176727
i never even saw an N-Gage. granted, im a Samsung guy myself, but i never knew of anyone who had this. did any of you ever buy or play or know of someone who had an N-Gage?
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sidewaydriver
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I remember they had one displayed at the store and I found it unplayable. I never knew of anyone that actually owned it.
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Slayer1
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Uh... I should care because why? I tried it, it sucked beyond believe.
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Ky-Guy
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Well, I might not care about that too much.
I certainly never tried it, and something tells me that I should be glad that I never did.
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Shut up, Dorn
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I played Tony Hawk 2 I think on an Ngage and I thought it was irritating and the controls were BS.
Didn't you have to take the battery out or something to change game cards?
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I remember the "hype" around it, and was kind of worried that it might put Game Boy out of business. Then I played it...yeah...it sucked. I had the same feelings towards PSP.
And it's funny...no matter HOW bad things look for Game Boy with every generation trying to make a better product than them, Nintendo somehow still kills them in the sales.
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| Shut up, Dorn wrote: |
I played Tony Hawk 2 I think on an Ngage and I thought it was irritating and the controls were BS.
Didn't you have to take the battery out or something to change game cards? |
the original model forced you to remove the battery iirc. they fixed that w/later models
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Slayer1
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I think the only decent Genre the N-Gage tapped into, was the RTS genre, but even then that's questionable...
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