Nokia today announced two new games - Mobile Soccer and Golf - for the Nokia 9210 Communicator. The games are optimized for the communicator's high-resolution color screen and the Symbian platform. Owners of the Nokia 9210 Communicator will be able to download both games from Club Nokia.
Mobile Soccer, developed by Kuju Entertainment and published by Nokia, is the second published add-on game for the Nokia 9210 Communicator. The 1st published add-on game, the Virtually Board Snowboarding game, which offers players an action-packed video game experience on the Nokia 9210 Communicator, was launched in March 2001 and produced in collaboration with the Finnish games developer Springtoys.
Rage Software plc is the developer and publisher of Golf, also optimized for the Nokia 9210 Communicator. The Rage Golf game, as well as Nokia's Mobile Soccer, will both be distributed via Club Nokia. The two games will be available to players during the 2nd half of 2001.
"We are pleased to announce two new games for our latest communicator with Kuju and Rage. The Nokia 9210 Communicator with its Symbian OS and high-quality color display offers an excellent platform for multimedia games. We have launched 3 exciting sports titles to date for the Nokia 9210 Communicator - this is an indication of the great games experience now available on mobile phones. With 70% of the mobile phone industry already licensing the Symbian OS, we will see an increasing number of mobile devices functioning on this platform. Nokia will continue to offer and enable cool games and game services for our full range of products, " said Graham Thomas, General Manager of Games, Nokia Mobile Phones.
In the past year, Nokia's entertainment offering has grown to include a large portfolio of games from top companies, such as Rage, Eidos, iomo, Kuju Entertainment, and Springtoys. This portfolio offers gamers a good choice of mobile entertainment, and Nokia's intention is to expand this selection in the future.
Rage, Kuju Entertainment, Springtoys, Eidos, iomo and Quiz Supplies are all members of Forum Nokia, which is an on-line community for third party developers creating mobile applications. Registered members can find a wide range of development tools and supporting documents as well as meet other developers on-line. The Forum Nokia site (www.forum.nokia.com) was established in 1995 and currently has more than 400,000 members.
About Nokia:
Club Nokia offers exclusive services to owners of Nokia mobile phones in the Europe and Africa region. The Club Nokia web and wap services can be accessed once the Nokia phone is registered with Club Nokia.
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
About Kuju:
Kuju Entertainment is one of Europe's leading independent games developers. Located in 2 studios in the south of England, with over 80 staff, Kuju has a substantial multi-platform development capability.
With a unique blend of PC and console experience, allied with more than ten years experience developing top rated titles, Kuju is ideally placed to produce world class titles on all major formats. Augmenting its development teams, Kuju's world class technology group has built state of the art engines for PC, PlayStation2 and, most recently, X-Box; these engines form the basis for most product development.
In addition to its console and PC capability Kuju has recently established a new business unit at its Godalming facility developing content for handheld and mobile platforms. This new group has experience developing for WAP, EPOC and Game Boy Advance. Established in April 2000 this rapidly growing unit already counts some of the biggest names in the mobile telecommunication business among its customers.
About Rage:
Rage Software plc, based in Liverpool, UK and established in 1992, is a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software. The company has a large number of the UK's finest games developers across its design studios and has produced a number of hit titles including Striker, Incoming, Jonah Lomu Rugby and Hostile Waters. Rage has the exclusive worldwide rights to produce a series of officially licensed games featuring the Manchester United and England soccer star, David Beckham, the MGM Rocky movie anthology featuring Sylvester Stallone and world champion inline skaters Cesar Mora and Fabiola da Silva. Rage has relationships with Microsoft, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Sony, Nintendo, Nokia and Orange and is fully listed on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE: RGE). www.rage.com
About Springtoys:
Springtoys, headquartered in Helsinki,Finland, is a recognized leader in
creating innovative and creative mobile entertainment and games, seamlessly
integrated across a number of delivery platforms, including WAP, SMS,SymbianOS (EPOC) and PalmOS. Springtoys also designs and licenses technology for developing and hosting compelling high-end wireless games. Founded in January 2000, Springtoys is owned in part by Sonera Corporation, Housemarque Inc., Eqvitec Partners, Wellington Partners, Shamrock, Enel and the management. Springtoys employs 71 professionals at its premises in Helsinki, London, Rovaniemi and Tampere. For further information, please visit www.springtoys.com
Further information:
Nokia Mobile Phones
Communications
Tel: +358 7180 08000
www.nokia.com