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Who will win one of the most prestigious mobile gaming prizes of
2008?

Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the top 10 developers of its
Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. The winners, to be announced at an
exclusive awards ceremony later this month, will take home a total
prize value of EUR 70,000. The three most innovative game concepts
will be offered Nokia Publishing pre-production contracts. In
addition, the first winner will be awarded EUR 40,000, the second EUR
20,000, and the third EUR 10,000 to enable further development of the
chosen concept.


An independent panel of industry experts from across the globe has
spent the past few weeks deliberating through over a hundred entries
to come up with a shortlist of the most innovative mobile games
concepts. Entries were judged on game innovation, fun, feasibility of
execution, and market potential. The top three developers who best
meet these requirements will be invited to present their concepts at
the upcoming Nokia Games Summit in Rome, Italy on October 29, 2008.

Top 10 developers and their concepts are:
- Active Tecnologia e Consultoria Ltda. (Brazil) - Cinemarena - set
in a movie theatre, controlling avatars on the big screen
- CreatePlayShare (India) - Ball - play any ball game on your mobile
device or even create your own new game
- A Different Game (Sweden) - Ghost Wire - use your mobile device to
communicate with ghosts
- Eclipse Interactive (UK) - Watchers - conspiracy adventure game
that uses Nokia Maps and other real world tools to find locations
- Int13 (France) - Kweekies - augmented reality virtual pet game that
allows players to interact with their pet by utilizing the embedded
camera of their mobile device
- Jadestone (Sweden) and C4M (France) - Melokey - a music game for
mobile devices where you learn to master songs and play them against
other in-game characters to win the hearts of your fans
- LemonQuest (Spain) - Wave Pirates - a fun action game where players
turn into a pirate navigating the seven seas, looking for gold and
glory
- Onur Yazilim (Turkey) - Comet Hunter - a 2-D shooting game which
combines the excitement of shooting with natural sound effects made
by players themselves
- Simlife (China) - XDancery - a music game where players can touch
the screen, draw patterns on the screen, shake the device or sing
into it to hit the music tempo notes
- TechnoBubble (Spain) - Fun Cam - a mixed reality game that connects
your camera on your mobile device to the TV

"The Mobile Games Innovation Challenge has demonstrated the huge
potential of this industry on a global level, and the innovation that
can be applied to mobile games," said Dr Mark Ollila, director of
games publishing, Nokia. "We've seen some groundbreaking ideas and
some really unique concepts. It just goes to show how many creative
minds there are out there and it really looks like we're going to set
out what we wanted to achieve with this Challenge - to rock the
industry. Everyone's now talking about the awards ceremony and we're
looking forward to an exciting outcome."

The Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, launched in April 2008, is
designed to encourage the development of innovative game concepts
with the power to positively disrupt the global mobile gaming
industry and to help propel mobile gaming with handheld devices into
a new and exciting future.

The Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Nokia Games
Publishing, called for mobile game developers to submit concepts that
will help drive mobile gaming to the next level, relying on the
advanced features and functionalities of N-Gage-compatible devices,
and Java- or Symbian-based Series 40 or S60 devices from Nokia.

www.gamingchallenge.org

About N-Gage
N-Gage is a made-for-mobile games service available in compatible
Nokia Nseries and other S60 3rd Edition devices from Nokia. N-Gage
makes it easy to find, try, buy, play and manage high-quality mobile
games as well as connect to friends and other players in the N-Gage
Arena, Nokia's mobile gaming community. Nokia is working with the
world's leading publishers to deliver a broad portfolio of games.
www.n-gage.com

About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.

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