Nokia today announced their newest online competition, the N-Gage Arena Anytime Anywhere Tournament, where players will demonstrate their prowess in the N-Gage Arena, meeting challenges delivered via text message that can arrive anytime, anywhere.
Players signup for the tournament and then watch for text message invitations notifying them that a competition is about to begin. Contestants will play each other in whichever game has been selected for that particular match. With twelve events in all, there will be plenty of chances to win.
The tournament will take place from January 9th through February 5th, 2006. Prizes include free N-Gage games, an N-Gage bag stuffed full of goodies, and more.
It will be interesting to see the number of participants. We know that 2 million n-Gages have been sold: but given that the first was sold more than 3 years ago, it's unlikely that all of the units are still in active use. We think this foreshadows the actualization of our prediction that n-Gage will become Arena-only, but from more handsets.
