Nokia shutters Vancouver-based N-Gage Design Studio
Filed under: Games, Software, Nokia
It’s probably a bit premature to sound the death knell for Nokia’s current generation of the N-Gage platform, but it certainly doesn’t bode well that they’ve wound down operations at the Vancouver, British Columbia-based studio responsible for many games stretching back to N-Gage’s origins. At this point, it could simply mean that Nokia no longer wishes to be tied up in the hard-knock world of game development, admitting that other operations like EA are probably better off fighting that fight — but ultimately, with the Ovi Store calling into question N-Gage’s very reason for being, this could be the beginning of yet another fundamental shift in Espoo’s gaming strategy. Time will tell, but in the meantime, there are 100 Nokia staffers up in Canada whose reassignments to other posts remain to be settled.
[Via Joystiq]
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