Ovi Store to get hundreds of new games

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By Phil Barker on February 3,

2010 at 00:00,

Nokia-Ovi-Store The Ovi store has been getting bigger and better over the past year, with some truly fantastic applications, games and utilities on offer. It’s set to get even better, however, with a mobile games explosion predicted. To find out more, read on after the jump…

Mobile gaming is already a proven strength of the Ovi Store, with loads of applications to suit just about any type of user, on just about any type of Nokia smartphone currently available.

The Ovi Store mobile gaming market is set to get a massive boost in the form of GameJump, however, a gaming service provided by mobile advertising company Greystripe. GameJump currently offers 1200 Java games, with Greystripe making money through advertising in the games themselves.

Greystripe intends to migrate the 1200 Java games from GameJump to Ovi Store, and it also intends to offer in-game advertising for Symbian games sold through the Ovi store as well, potentially luring developers to create even more games.

Greystripe already supports gaming on the iPhone and Android, so support for the Ovi Store and Nokia is a natural progression. It’s a great boost for Nokia fans in particular, and the hundreds of new games on offer should help to make the Ovi Store one of the best mobile phone markets currently available.

Tags: GameJump games Greystripe Nokia Ovi Store

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http://twitter.com/brenopeck Breno Peck

Aren’t you supposed to tell us when you publish paid content?

1200 Java games? Who in Earth would be excited with that?

We miss you, N-Gage.
Phil B

It isn’t paid content.

If there are 1200 java games in existence, and users are downloading them, it’s inevitable that it’s of interest to some of our readers.

Although, you’re right, N-Gage was impressive.
http://twitter.com/brenopeck Breno Peck

Phil, your response was so polite that you made me feel overly harsh.

But I think you got the idea: OVI is a terrible gaming platform. People *may* be interested in one or another Java game (amongst 1,2k or so), but the quality nowadays doesn’t even match that of the old N-Gage 2.0 days and it’s far, far away from the iPhone. It’s not about turning S60 v3 or v5 a gaming platform — even though most devices got minimum hardware requirements for that — it’s about having good quality games to spend spare time.

With this fact in mind, it’s hard to believe someone will ever get excited with probably low-quality 1,2k Java games; hence my harsh tease on you guys.