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Asphalt: Urban GT burns serious rubber on N-Gage   Thursday, August 19 2004

Nokia and Gameloft today announced Asphalt: Urban GT for the N-Gage platform. Asphalt: Urban GTTM brings the thrill of high-speed racing in locations from around the world with licensed dream cars that players can customize for performance and looks. With its amazing 3D graphics and fast frame rate, Asphalt: Urban GT offers a true high-speed experience with the possibility to race against others via Bluetooth wireless technology.

"Asphalt: Urban GT is the first dream car racing game for the N-Gage platform and it delivers fantastic graphics and high-powered performance," says Pasi Pölönen, Director of Games Publishing, Nokia. "Asphalt: Urban GT lets you race your customized Lamborghini down the Champs-Elysée in Paris - a thrilling experience!"

"We think this is an excellent fit to the N-Gage platform," says Julien Fournials, VP Production of Gameloft.." In addition to the very rich and crisp 3D graphics, the platforms allows a fast frame rate to enhance the sports cars driving experience"

Players compete to earn money so that they can buy their favorite dream cars and unlock racing tracks from around the world. With the possibility to customize car through visual and performance tuning, players can create their own racing dream car. Asphalt: Urban GT offers wireless local multiplayer gaming for up to four players with several different racing modes.

Asphalt: Urban GT is expected to hit the stores this Christmas.

About N-Gage
The N-Gage game deck is an innovative mobile device that is creating an entirely new market for the games industry. Built for active gamers, the N-Gage platform is the first mobile and connected game deck to feature online high-quality 3D multiplayer gameplay over Bluetooth wireless technology and GPRS. The N-Gage device also offers unique online games services as well as a comprehensive and growing games catalogue from the leading game publishers. Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Nokia and N-Gage are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nokia Corporation.

About Gameloft
Gameloft is a leading international publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones. Founded in 1999 and today the industry leader, Gameloft designs games for phones including Java, BREW and Symbian technologies, the installed number of which is likely to surpass one billion units by 2007(1). Partnership agreements with major rights-holders such as Ubisoft Entertainment allow Gameloft to associate strong international brands with its games. Gameloft's direct commercial presence in 10 countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China, Hong Kong and Japan) enables the Group to distribute its range in over 65 countries through a network of telecom operators, phone manufacturers, specialized distributors and an on-line boutique: www.gameloft.com. Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euroclear - 7960, Bloomberg GMLF FP, Reuters GLFT.LN).


Source: Nokia Press Office




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