Nokia’s gaming service N-Gage stepping to death
Nokia’s N-Gage blog has confirmed in a post that Nokia will close its battered N-Gage mobile gaming service and community next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering and to shift focus towards gaming on its Ovi platform. Nokia is looking for new revenue from online services as its traditional handset market matures, with games and music being the first focus areas. The online gaming service, which opened last year, took over the N-Gage brand and also never moved beyond a niche audience of hard-core gamers. It said the games from its first major services offering could be purchased until the end of September 2010 and the community site would remain in operation throughout 2010. After closing the N-Gage service, Nokia will continue to sell mobile games at its Ovi Store, a smaller rival to Apple’s popular App Store.
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