Nokia Showcases New Games and Rewards Innovative Concepts
ROME and ESPOO, Finland, October 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia
(NYSE:NOK) 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 Ojanpera,
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," Ojanpera 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.
http://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.
http://www.nokia.com
SOURCE Nokia Corporation
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