When you read/hear Las Vegas, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Casinos and the bubbly nightlife right? Well, the same Vegas has been doing the rounds on the web but for a totally different reason this time around, courtesy Consumer Electronics Show or CES 2010 which recently concluded in the US abode of casinos and yeah Nokia did have a device or two up its sleeves but that’s not what we are gonna talk about here. We were more than amazed by this little preview of a promising game from Nokia- Bounce Boing Battle, which is a welcome addition to the gaming scenario on 5800s.

The game which brings real time interactive multi-player gaming to 5800s will be available for free on the Ovi store soon and is the latest addition to Bounce series of games, which are pre-installed on every symbian fifth edition and maemo 5 devices. While, its too early to call this game a must have, the trailers are hinting us that we would anyway, once it is out. Find for yourselves what makes us say so, after the break though. Read more »

If you are one of those people who would prefer cracking a puzzle from the comfort of your homes especially when its so chilly and almost inhumane outdoors, we have got something for you which might just kill your boredom atleast for a while. Thanks to OctoPuzzle, a free brainteaser from Lunagames.

Winter is also the season when it gets really hard to get that favorite seafood dish of yours, especially if you are on shoe-string budget in a land-locked country! Well, let us assure you that the new brainteaser will whet your seafood appetite too, but that’s rather subjective for those who would rather see some aquatic organism on their plates than on a LCD screen of their handheld. Whatever you prefer, chances are you are gonna find this octopus centric brainteaser handy to exercise your grey matter and before you proceed to ovi store to download this game, do check our brief review, after the break. Read more »

Offscreen Technologies, one of the best known developers for the symbian fifth edition platform have been doling out christmas giveaways on the ovi store for a while now. If you have been following closely on the development over at the ovi store, you would have noticed that Offscreen has been dishing out one paid app after another, sans the price tag.

The latest to join the bandwagon of paid to free apps/games from Offscreen Technologies is the Airport Touch, a fun little game, wherein the gamer has to direct the incoming flights to the landing strip of a virtual airport. Sounds interesting? Hit on the jump button for more tid-bits of this game on our 5800s. Read more »

Do you love frogs? Nevermind even if you despise them for this fun little game- Froga will change you perception of frogs, and if not that it will atleast entertain you with its puzzles.

Frogs and puzzles? And don’t the leaves look like Pac-Man? Yeah you are right with both the observations, for the first: the puzzles are more like block-2-go or Bulldozer and for that uncanny resemblance to Pac-Man of the leaves, we have no answer. May be we should knock at the doors of interActive (developers of Froga) for an answer, or may be Namco (developers of Pac-man) will! Let’s not bother about copyright infringements here and dwell straight away in to Froga, after the break though. Read more »

Yeah, you read it right! One of the best known names in the mobile gaming industry- Gameloft is giving away as many as 10 top end games for free for a limited period of time.

Gameloft may be riding high on popularity charts in the symbian gaming community as well as its dominance in other mobile gaming platforms including the iPhone but thats not stopping the gaming company from seizing the market initiative from its competitors by offering free games and we are not talking new games here, they are giving away some of the most popular games of the mobile platform. Wanna know what Gameloft titles are up for grabs? Hit on the read button to find out. Read more »

Cashing in on the popularity of the farm games on Facebook, HeroCraft have launched Farm Frenzy, an entertaining farming game for symbian fifth edition devices.

We don’t know what is but the genre of farming games is suddenly the “in thing” on Facebook, with Farm Town constantly figuring in the Top 10 of the most popular facebook games of the month since the second half of this year. May be its the urbanized society’s way of getting to know the lifestyle of their rural ancestors, without having to travel miles at a stretch to get the feel of rural landscape and workstyle that’s driving this genre of games in the market. Now that it has arrived on 5800s, let’s see how it fares, after the break. Read more »

Remember that classic paper based game- Bulls and Cows? If that doesn’t ring any bells, how does the classic puzzle- Mastermind sound like? If you are still wondering what we are talking about, you should probably check this wiki entry on Mastermind on which our review game today-Memo Deduction is based on.

Our good ol’ friends at MMMOOO in Shanghai are back in news again. This time around they have taken a break from their themes and UI customizations for symbian fifth edition phones to bring this classic board game to our dear 5800s. Is their latest effort as good as their previous offerings? Lets find out after the break. Read more »

Missing that online gaming action your iPhone friends are so proud of flaunting around? Fret not for now our 5800s has an online game of its own in Dojo Cubed Addict.

The latest version of the popular online game, Dojo Cubed Addict v1.04 has several advantages over its predecessor and with its increasing popularity on the net, the game is generating a lot of interest in the 5800 community. Is the game worthy of a download? Hit the jump button to find out. Read more »

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone is a great platform for board games. We’ve covered and recommended some of them here on Tube5800. In this article, we’d like to show you another mind-bending game that has been a staple in simple toys for years. Perhaps you had this one when you were a kid. But now, you can enjoy it in your phone – a game simply called Fifteen Touch from OffScreen Technologies.

Fifteen is a simple game where the object is to arrange the fifteen red and flesh-colored squares which are numbered from one to fifteen in the game board in successive order. Problem is that the squares are all jumbled up. How do we arrange them in proper order? You slide the squares vertically and horizontally until you get them in their proper place. Read more »

Sudoku, the classic paper based game has been adapted on to our 5800s since long and guess what, it just got better, wait way better! Gameloft have released the updated version of best selling electronic Sudoku game- Platinum Sudoku to v2.

Sudoku as you may know consists of 9×9 grid made up of nine 3×3 matrices. The objective of the game is to fill in the grid such that each matrix has numerals 1-9, such that no numeral is repeated either within the matrix and along that respective row and column. Doesn’t that make up for an exciting puzzle? No wonder the puzzle has a huge fan following and is one of the most popular electronic games in the web today. We have been hunting for that perfect Sudoku client for our 5800s and had adjudged Sensible Sudoku as the winner when it was first launched a couple of quarters ago. Will Platinum Sudoku 2 dislodge Sensible Sudoku from the coveted title? Read further to find out. Read more »