Nokia abandons Gage gaming service to fully support Ovi Store

Tencent Science and technology news Beijing time November 3, according to foreign media reports, the world's largest handset maker Nokia announced that the company will close the Gage gaming service in 2010.　　When the Gage service was launched in 2008, Nokia had great expectations for the service. Nokia released its mobile gaming platform, Gage, in April 2008, which has about 30 games available for specific Nokia handsets to download games directly. Nokia said it would no longer release the new Gage phone game, although users would still be able to buy existing gage games by the end of September 2010.　　Nokia also said the Gage community website would be closed by the end of next year. Nokia said that all of the company's mobile gamers would be transferred to the App Store Ovi store in the future. "It will be easier to get all of the mobile games in one place and the Ovi Store is currently offering such a service," the company said on Gage's official blog. Mobile gaming applications are currently one of the most popular apps in the Ovi Store, and the game has become the second most downloaded app in the Ovi Store. Nokia recently released its third-quarter earnings that disappointed investors. The company reported a net loss of 913 million euros (about 838 million pounds) in the third quarter, with a net profit of € 1.1 billion over the same period last year. (Compile/Mowgli)