Nokia and Supedo To Develop Mobile Gaming Content For WAP Enabled Phones.Business and Technology Editors HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2001 Nokia and Supedo today announced their cooperation to develop new mobile gaming content for WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. (Wireless Application Protocol) enabled phones. Under the terms of the agreement, Supedo will develop three game titles, Boxes, Concentration and Truth or bluff, for WAP enabled mobile phones. These new games will be included in the Nokia Mobile Entertainment Service which is a Nokia hosted mobile game service for operators and service providers. Nokia also introduced several other new WAP games developed by top game companies as part of its hosted mobile game service. "We are continuously expanding our portfolio of games for the Nokia Mobile Entertainment Service. The wide selection of mobile games developed by top companies will give operators and service providers an excellent opportunity to offer exciting new entertainment services to their subscribers," said Timo Kotilainen, Director, Sales, Nokia Networks. "Nokia strongly believes that mobility will bring unprecedented value to on-line entertainment. Mobility will increase the freedom to play irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite time and place and provide mass market gamer with new devices to play on. This presents game developers and publishers with attractive business opportunities. By working with Nokia, content providers will get the best tools and support for WAP game development and access to the mobile market place," said Graham Stafford Graham Stuart Stafford was a sheet metal worker from Goodna, near Ipswich, Queensland who was convicted in 1992 of the murder of twelve-year-old Leanne Sarah Holland. Leanne Holland, the younger sister of Stafford's former partner, Melissa Holland, was murdered in September 1991. , Senior Manager, Nokia Mobile Phones. The Nokia Mobile Entertainment service offers operators and service providers a continuously growing selection of mobile games developed by third parties. The Nokia Mobile Entertainment Service is a Nokia hosted and facilitated solution encompassing a wide selection of mobile games, game developer tools and support, facilitation Facilitation The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. , server hosting, and a platform for running game applications. Today, Nokia also announced a number of new games from iomo, Kuju Entertainment Kuju Entertainment is a European computer and video game corporation. Kuju Entertainment was formed after a management buyout of Simis from Eidos Interactive. They have collaborated with several companies on games for various platforms, including the Nintendo GameCube, Playstation and Morpheme morpheme: see grammar. morpheme In linguistics, the smallest grammatical unit of speech. It may be an entire word (cat) or an element of a word (re- and -ed in reappeared). to be available via the Nokia Mobile Entertainment Service. iomo will develop seven new game titles for Nokia including Wap Hunter, Wap Fishing, Wapundrum, Blinder thinker, Runaway and Infiltrator in·fil·trate v. in·fil·trat·ed, in·fil·trat·ing, in·fil·trates v.tr. 1. a. To pass (troops, for example) surreptitiously into enemy-held territory. b. . Morpheme's new games will include Killer, House Numbers, 5 thousand, Crazy Eights, and Cat and Mouse. Kuju Entertainment will develop a new game called Alife. This continuously growing portfolio offers gamers a good choice of mobile entertainment, and Nokia's intention is to continuously expand this selection. In the past year, Nokia's entertainment offering has grown to include a large portfolio of games from top companies, such as Rage, Eidos, Activision, iomo, Kuju Entertainment, Morpheme, h2g2, Net Entertainment, Oxford Softworks and Quiz Supplies. The game developers mentioned herein are all members of Forum Nokia This article has multiple issues: * It reads like an advertisement and needs to be rewritten in a neutral point of view. * It may need a complete rewrite to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. , 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 at Forum Nokia. The Forum Nokia site (www.forum.nokia.com) was established in 1995 and currently has more than 400,000 members.' About 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 Supedo: Supedo is a young, UK-based company which specializes in mobile and multi-channel entertainment. It has particular strengths in multi-player and location-based games A location-based game (or location-enabled game) is one in which the game play somehow evolves and progresses via a player's location. Thus, location-based games almost always support some kind of localization technology, for example by using satellite positioning like GPS. , and expertise in Web, Wap, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , Java, Bluetooth and location-based technologies. Supedo's focus is on pushing the creative boundaries of the mobile medium to develop new forms of entertainment. It recently produced the first mobile product to win a British Acadamy Award. Supedo has partnerships with leading network operators, handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. manufacturers, and mobile technology companies in Europe, the US and Japan. |
|
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion