Nokia to Shutter N-Gage Mobile Games ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 30, 2009 - 7:23am.
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- After failing to gain market traction, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to shutter its N-Gage
mobile gaming service next year, Reuters reported.
The company retooled the N-Gage brand from a line of gaming-focused handsets to a mobile gaming service, which launched last year. The first edition N-Gage handset was derided for its design, asking users to hold it to their faces sideways, like a taco, when making calls. Later models addressed some concerns, but the gaming phones did not sell well. "We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform," the company wrote on its N-Gage blog, adding that it will continue to maintain the N-Gage online community site through 2010. Nokia plans to continue to publish games in its Ovi mobile applications store.
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