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On Friday, September 21st at Tokyo Game Show 2007, Nokia gave two presentations for businesses, developers, and game publications. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the presentations but I can pass on what information I know.

The first presentation, entitled “The Next Generation of Mobile Gaming”, was about the Nokia N-Gage platform. N-Gage games were demonstrated and the platform’s features were described: such as multiplayer gaming, easy network connectivity, and downloadable trial games before purchasing. The presentation also discussed making a better gaming experience for tomorrow’s mobile gamer.

The second presentation was titled, “The Global Business of Mobile Casual Games; Case Studies of Successful Japanese Publishers in Connected Mobile Games”. The fairly long title is pretty self explanatory. The presentation discussed successful Japanese publishers, such as G-mode and D3Publisher, that have released many connected mobile games. These publishers discussed their experiences in expanding globally with Nokia’s SNAP mobile. SNAP Mobile is a set of tools and services that help producers and developers to create networked Java games and host network services.

I hope that the presentations will bring some new Japanese developers, publishers, and gamers to the N-Gage platform and SNAP Mobile. I guess we’ll have to wait and see when there are more mobile gaming announcements.

Original post by Devin Balentina