Movies on tap?
Ewan reviews one of the first samples of licensed music/video from newcomers ROK. Is this the way to get Symbian-based video into the mainstream? Read his review of ROK Player.
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Recent News - N-Gage
Xanadu Next now shipping
Xanadu Next, an N-Gage-exclusive 3D third person RPG from legendary Japanese developers Falcom, has now started shipping according to Nokia. It should start appearing in shops worldwide over the next couple of weeks.
Guns, Aircraft, Secret Documents... It's Firestorm
Firestorm is here - a graphcally supmtious up the screen scrolling arcade shooter for Series 60. There's a B-Movie plot, a number of big power ups, multiple aircraft to play with... Asion Sky have a winner here!
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Don't Blame Mr. Taneli Armanto, Give Him An Award
The man who took the standard BASIC program of Snake and put it on the Nokia 6610 as "Nokia Snake" has recieved a Special Recognition Award at the Mobile Entertainment Forum for destroying the lives of millions of Snake addicts the world over. Congra...
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System Rush and the Business of Games
Ewan caught up with Rob Hendry fom Ideaworks 3D recently, and while the interview was meant to be about System Rush, it's turned out to be a nice tour of what companies go through when making an N-Gage game. Well worth a read. As for System Rush, we'...
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Helping you study
An overdue focus on education: New author Thomas Boys (be gentle with him) writes about the multitude of ways in which a Series 60 smartphone (e.g. Nokia 3650, Sendo X, N-Gage) can help you be more effective in your studies and in your research. Many...
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Aarghh, no, not falling blocks again
Ewan finds a few innovations in Dropathon but he's ultimately not really impressed. Read his review.
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MMORPG Age of Fantasy Now Available for S60 and UIQ
Age of Fantasy is a real time, massive multiplayer online role-playing game. If you're paying data rates by the kilobyte, it might get a bit pricey, but flat rate plans and those with deep pockets should be okay. Running as a Java Midlet, it should b...
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Hover Zone - combat hover boarding?
Steve takes an hour or two out from his schedule to blast round futuristic tracks on his anti-gravity board in 'Hover Zone'.Read the review.
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Carphone Warehouse Launch MMC Games Card
UK Retailer, The Carphone Warehouse, has partnered with Telcogames to launch an MMC collection of Symbian (Series 60) games to sell in-store. The tiles (Sky-Force, Yukkiko, and Marble Revolution) may be well known to AAS readers, but to the wider pub...
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