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Nokia Acquires Sega.com

In a joint press release today Nokia and Sega officials announced that that Nokia will acquire assets of Sega.com, inc. to enhance the online games and service offerings ...

David Jenkins, Blogger

August 20, 2003

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In a joint press release today Nokia and Sega officials announced that that Nokia will acquire assets of Sega.com, inc. to enhance the online games and service offerings for the N-Gage cell phone/games console hybrid. The deal will ensure that Nokia have exclusive access to the Sega Network Application Package (SNAP), which enables high-performance networked multi-player games and will form the core of the N-Gage’s online games activity. No financial details of the new arrangement were released. Nokia have also announced they are planning to ship 6 million units of the N-Gage in two years.

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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