Before the next review of the novelties of the week to make a small lyrical economic retreat on the theme of a bright future, which, apparently, waiting for us fans of mobile gaming. At London's Wireless Leadership Forum, held last week, mobile gaming once again predicted a bright future. At this time, the well-known analytical agency Yankee Group presented the results of his research on mobile data for the region EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia). It is projected agency revenues from voice services to operators in Western Europe until 2008, stopped growing at around $ 124 billion, while revenues from mobile data will increase by that time almost doubled up to $ 50 billion and will continue to grow. In the worst affected, according to the forecast, the growth will come from entertainment services, in particular gaming. In an effort to take the opening promising market zabryatsala armor Nokia, released on sale in Europe and Asia, its N-Gage QD. This novelty, which appeared after the fiasco of the injured N-Gage, is a continuation of the company's strategy to move towards the mass consumer devices for online gaming. So far in this direction holds strong leadership GameBoy Nintendo. The new N-Gage QD corrected some shortcomings of the previous model, areas of particular criticism: slightly changed the navigation system, a slot for multimedia cards submitted for building - had to change the card had to remove the battery pack. The developers have retained as an operating system and N-Gage. The smartphone continues to be based on Symbian. In addition, the new N-Gage QD supports GSM 900 / 1800, equipped with Bluetooth, weighs 143 grams and its battery is designed for 5 hours of talk time or 10.5 hours of gaming. The device comes with 20 games. Same number of games, promised in 2004, was reduced by 60% from 100 to 40. In addition, the platform developed by the Finnish giant Arena, - a sort of online community of players, allowing play on the network via GPRS - has so far only 50-70 thousand people. After submission of the second N-Gage in Asia, Nokia is going to take a niche in the gaming industry such Asian countries as the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. For this purpose, Nokia has developed a series of marketing programs, which, according to Rick of the Year, Manager of Nokia, engaged in games, are largely based on a study of the most popular in Asian countries multiplayer role-playing game Ragnorok: "The whole secret lies in the pricing model of the game: this popularity has become possible thanks to the low price and the minimum requirements for devices. At some stage we are going to follow the same strategy. " And Nokia can understand. Asia is the most advanced region for gaming: the number of active players are the greatest. So, Bandai Networks and D3Publisher announced last week that the number of registered users of their gaming portal has reached 400 thousand people. Founded in 2002, the portal contains games for subscribers of the telecom giant NTT DoCoMo, using the protocol i-mode. And finally, another good news. Most famous Electronic Arts is preparing to capture the market for mobile games. "The era of complete idler, - said Vice President Gerhard Florin, in his speech at the Mobile Entertainment Forum, - the current generation has grown up on interactivity and requires her to have fun. ... Our frenchayzery working to make our game stand out among others. Everyone can publish mobile games, but I'm sure that buyers will choose it ours. " Hope to check it out, but for now - Game news of the week.
Midtown Madness
It's not even a presentation of a new toy, but rather, a small announcement. Last week, the site PocketGamer posted a couple of screenshots and short video of Midtown Madness for Pocket PC. Judging by the rather scanty information, waiting for us pretty exciting game action, although there is no information about the developer, nor the timing of the game.
Perhaps this can be regarded as implementation intentions Microsoft, made by Mark Spain, director of companies involved in mobile devices, in one of his April interview. According to the sounded plans, Microsoft will release before the end of the year 13 games for PDAs, including Midtown Madness, RallySport and a series of Age of ... - the game has already gained its popularity on PC and Xbox. We add only that the Age of Empires for Pocket PC was recently released Korean ZIO.
Space Treker
