After Nokia announced that they were reviving the N-Gage brand in the form of a new mobile gaming service, I know that we were all counting the days until it was supposed to be released… in November. What´s that? You didn´t know that the new N-gage system was due out two months ago? According to a reuters press release, the Nokia gaming platform is now expected to appear sometime in 2008, once some last-minute software bug testing is completed.

Truthfully, we all want this service to be good. For too long, mobile games have occupied a sorry position on the ´fun´meter, right below those LCD toys that come for free in cereal boxes. At least those games have workable controls. So far the major weakness with mobile games, apart from the fact that they generally suck, is that they are really, really hard to control with normal cellphone buttons. Hopefully Nokia´s new line of phones will feature buttons that complement the games they plan to release on the machine. The launch titles curently slated to release with the system include Fifa 2008, Crash Bandicoot, Tetris and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. But, does anybody really care?