
Shortly after we reported about the next generation of N-Gage devices that's expected to be announced at GDC 2007 next month, the N-Gage blog posted a story in which they revealed the first two gaming companies that have committed to support Nokia's upcoming platform: Gameloft and EA Mobile. Oddly enough, however, the story in question - titled "Growing Publisher Support for N-Gage" - is no longer listed on the blog's front page right now, and even though it still exists in the website's archives, it's slightly different than the one cached by Google.
In case they're going to take down the story for good, you can find a comparison between the two texts below. See if you can spot the difference...
Original story:
"We expect EA Mobile and Gameloft to bring a number of top-selling, award winning titles to our platform between our launch in September and the end of 2007."
Edited story: "We expect EA Mobile and Gameloft to bring a number of top-selling, award winning titles to our platform between now and our launch." Ahem... so, the new N-Gage is launching in September, huh? Sorry Nokia, you can't hide your PR mishaps when God Google almighty is watching!
As for the rest of the story, they say that more announcements are on the way, and throughout the year other leading publishers will be adding their games to the (next-gen) N-Gage catalogue. "By early 2008", they say, "we expect to have some of the biggest franchises and hottest mobile games included in the N-Gage experience. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!".
Of course, this still leaves us with the main question unanswered: will there be a dedicated N-Gage gaming device or not?




