Kotaku
You might recall that Nokia announced at this year's GDC that they were taking a third run at the mobile gaming market, this time abandoning the hardware side of things (goodbye N-Gage taco) and aiming instead to fill a very big need on the development software side of things.
In essence, Nokia wants to create a unified platform and back-end for Series 60 mobile phones that all developers can work on. Of course this is a business decision and very self-serving, but it's also a great idea and much needed.
Greg Howson over at GamesBlog said he had a chance to spend some time with it and left relatively impressed.
What I saw showed an intuitive looking interface, with easy access to your games, friends etc. As you'd expect community is vital, with the ability to create events, post reviews and generally do that web 2.0 thing.
The service hits this autumn and I'm actually holding my breath. Weird.
N-Gaged [GamesBlog]
