I-play to support Nokia’s delayed N-Gage effort

I-play said it will support Nokia Corp.’s N-Gage gaming platform with a portfolio of casual titles.
The U.K.-based publisher will begin to offer N-Gage games next year, starting with World Rally Championship and Super Mah Jong, and will focus on simple, “one-thumb” games. Glu Mobile and Digital Chocolate have also committed to producing games for the platform.
Nokia is preparing to re-launch N-Gage as platform for games on some Series 60 handsets, including phones already on the market. The brand came to market four years ago as a mobile phone model, but Nokia dropped the handset when it failed to find an audience among on-the-go gamers.
The N-Gage platform was slated for release earlier this year, but was delayed. It is now expected in the next few months.
“The awareness that the launch later this fall alone will bring to the consumer and mobile industry will help propel mobile gaming to the front and center of entertainment consumed on the mobile,” said I-play CEO David Gosen.