Posts Tagged ‘game’

Top Gear game on your mobile

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The BBC has announced that together with Gameloft they will be creating a mobile game of the well-known UK TV programme Top Gear.

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There’s no date been given for the release of the game - just “later in the year”, but when it does come out players will be able to:

“race a power lap on a virtual version of the infamous Top Gear test track and to compete on their own personal power lap board. The game will test player’s skills with ambitious challenges and races. It will also allow gamers to attempt ambitious Top Gear style stunts like those seen on the TV programme.”

It looks like we’ll get to be The Stig. Excellent. As long as we don’t have to be involved in a high-speed crash like Richard Hammond was in September 2006. Although to be honest, getting the chance to be Jeremy Clarkson for a day would be good fun. You’d get to rant and rave about anything you like (but mainly speed cameras and caravans), have ridiculous hair and an inflated sense of your own importance. Anyone making a game like that?

Nokia finally sets N-Gage free

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Nokia has officially unwrapped N-Gage, the games platform that’s come from the ashes of the now very much defunct gaming handset of the same name. The N-Gage games service has gone live with just a few titles, including FIFA 08, Asphalt 3: Street Rules, World Series of Poker Pro Challenge with a handful of N series devices - N81, N82, N95 - able to use the service at launch.

Nokia has also unveiled an N-Gage community area for the service, for gamers to find friends, arrange some multiplayer gaming or participate in tournaments and chat with other N-Gage users.

Nokia will need to spread this to more devices if it wants to get some serious take-up, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t planning to add to its roster in the near future. Cleverly, it’s also made sure there’s an N-Gage web portal so gamers can get their fix on the internet as well as mobiles - so that’s expanded the potential user base to just about everyone, then. It’s also promising 30 gaming titles in the near future - including old favourites like Tetris - but I can’t help but think that having them available at launch would have been a better bet.


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