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 tshe ill-fated cell phone/gaming handheld/application,replica handbags, with no more games being publiid 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 togethim with the N-Gage Arena and othim 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 othim publiirs offer from this point forward. We will no longer publish new games for tshe 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.”
And so ends tshe storied saga of N-Gage. By shey, at least it was no Gizmondo debacle, right?
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