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Nokia showcases new games and rewards innovative concepts
Rome, Italy and Espoo, Finland - Nokia hosts games industry leaders
from around the world today in Rome, Italy to discuss openly about
how to evolve, innovate and cooperate together to grow the mobile
games business globally. In addition to discussions around trends in
mobile gaming, publishers' perspectives and visions of the future,
attendees learn how the N-Gage service has been doing since its
launch six months ago, hear how Nokia Games Publishing is innovating
with new games like Dance Fabulous, and see concepts of the top three
finalists of the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge.
"With the N-Gage service now live for six months, we have a truly
global service on offer with sales transactions in over 130 countries
and tens of millions of N-Gage compatible devices available," said
Tero Ojanperä, executive vice president and head of the Nokia
entertainment and communities business. "The most active players
reside in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Australia and Spain,
but we've seen active players worldwide with repeat purchase rates
over 35% globally. Game trials have also proved to be important, with
download to purchase conversions up to 30%."
"As we continue to scale with N-Gage, games remain a key part of our
vision of context aware internet services and important to our
overall services strategy," Ojanperä continued. "But, we have a
challenge for the future: how do we work together to innovate in this
new environment, around Internet and services? The Nokia Games Summit
is a great platform to discuss some of these challenges as well as
the opportunities."
Nokia Games Publishing has been creating unique made-for-mobile games
for many years and the latest game coming exclusively to N-Gage in
2009 is Dance Fabulous. Players can create their own dance moves to
any music stored on their mobile device. As they hone their dancing
skills, players will be able to share their best choreographies with
friends to see who has the most fabulous moves. Nokia together with
music legend Dave Stewart, who is working with Nokia on the Nokia
Artists' Advisory Council, are introducing up-and-coming singer Cindy
Gomez through the mobile game with brand new songs including the
theme song, "Street Dancing".
Publishers also continue to bring more games to N-Gage. EA
Mobile(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS),
continues its support for N-Gage at the Nokia Games Summit with the
announcement of an extensive global release schedule for the
platform. EA will be bringing some of its popular franchises to
N-Gage in the coming year, including EA SPORTS(TM) FIFA 09, Need For
Speed(TM) Undercover and The Sims(TM) 3.
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing by Gameloft is also coming to N-Gage offering
the largest number of high-end cars ever in your mobile device: 28
prestigious dream cars and bikes including the Bugatti Veyron,
Ferrari F430 Spider, Nissan GT-R and Ducati 1098. Enjoy the real-time
multiplayer mode to prove that you are the fastest!
Notes to editor
For further materials on the Nokia Games Summit, please visit
http://www.nokia.com/press/gamessummit.
About N-Gage
N-Gage is a made-for-mobile games service available in compatible
Nokia Nseries and other S60 3rd Edition devices from Nokia. N-Gage
makes it easy to find, try, buy, play and manage high-quality mobile
games as well as connect to friends and other players in the N-Gage
Arena, Nokia's mobile gaming community. Nokia is working with the
world's leading publishers to deliver a broad portfolio of games.
www.n-gage.com
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.
Media Enquiries:
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
Email: press.services@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
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