Back in the days when the coolest phone was the Nokia 5110, everyone was trying to outclass one another by either having the best housing for their phone or the highest score in Snake. Well, those days are long gone and I doubt if anyone is vaguely interested in Snake anymore especially with the current crop of gaming consoles and devices available to consumers.

However, this doesn’t mean that Nokia is conceding the throne in the gaming arena as it relaunches and repackages N-Gage, its premiere line of game-centric phones … sort of. It used to be a product, but now they’re launching it anew as a service for downloading games for compatible phones. You no longer will be limited to those Gameboy-looking phones which, in all honesty, doesn’t feel and function like a phone anyway. Now, you can play your favorite N-gage games on your own Nokia phone without having to buy a new phone and game cartridges or discs.

Part of the Ovi web portal which Nokia recently launched, the site is already up, but the service is set to go full throttle in November. Of course, the downloads aren’t free so you Nokia-loving game-junkies better start saving, cause here’s another addiction bound your way.