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Default [Reuters] Nokia to close gaming service N-Gage
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Nokia Oyj will close its battered gaming service N-Gage next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering.
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"We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform," Nokia said on its N-Gage blog, to which a user calling himself Jon replied: "It's a sad day for N-Gage fans."
Ha ha! when i saw this i was like "the n-gage is still around!?"

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...there were n-gage fans?
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Wasn't N-Gage that old handheld thing that wasn't very popular in the first place? I could be wrong, but I don't ever remember anyone in my place being like "Dude I want an N-Gage". Rightfully well that they're stopping it.

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Ha ha! when i saw this i was like "the n-gage is still around!?"
Me too. I'm surprised they didn't close this down sooner.

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I wonder why they didn't just send the 37 active users with a ngage 10$ in compensation and just cancel the service years ago.

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You can actually play n-gage games on nokia symbian phones not all of them but yea. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum...ad.php?t=80395
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Wasn't N-Gage that old handheld thing that wasn't very popular in the first place? I could be wrong, but I don't ever remember anyone in my place being like "Dude I want an N-Gage". Rightfully well that they're stopping it.
N Gage is also compatible on most of the N Series phones.

Shame really. They are the only phone games that actually compete at the iPhones level. The problem is the games cost an arm and a leg
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You must not confuse the device (2003) and the service (2005) with each other.

The device had it's issues both as a phone as well as a gaming platform (also from a game developers point of view ).

The service on the other hand (at least the idea) was quite a nice one. You could even say it was a bit ahead of it's time. Sort of a predecessor for iTunes or XBLA but it had it's issues as well.
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