“Ovi Store” Articles

Mark Ollila the Head of Cross Media Solutions at Nokia, shares his views about Games on Ovi and Nokia’s vision of mobile gaming as a whole. He also reveals that Nokia will be releasing two to three more games before the end of the year, designed to specifically show off certain technologies. Check out the video after the break.

Nokia has decided to terminate it’s N-Gage gaming services after several years of struggle in attaining a high level of users. The news comes with the vision of evolving its gaming platform and integrating it into the Ovi Store, which has now become Nokia’s ‘one-stop-shop’ for all mobile content. N-Gage has suffered in the past and after its initial downfall, Nokia revamped the service and relaunched it a second time round. At first it seamed to be the next best thing, with the devices sporting the service being more desirable compared to before. However with the high standard of mobile gaming provided by Apple and its iPhone, it was always going to be difficult to pursue a service that was already behind its competitors. More details after the break.

If you’ve been waiting to here from Nokia Care about re-downloading an application, game or any other content that you lost or deleted in error, you will be glad to hear that Nokia has officially announced that as from today, if you download or buy any content from the new Ovi Store, you can re-download it with the device used for the original purchase absolutely free.