Los Angeles, CA — (press release excerpt) — Nokia Home Communications and Loki Software announced today an agreement to make Linux games from Loki available on the Nokia Media Terminal. The Media Terminal is an innovative infotainment device that seamlessly combines digital video broadcast (DVB), gaming, full… Internet access, and personal video recorder (PVR) technology. As part of the agreement Linux-based games from Loki will be pre-installed on the Media Terminal. Anticipated roll out of the Media Terminal will be early Fall in Europe.

Both Nokia and Loki Software have made a firm commitment to support the open source community by developing open tools and standards making such a collaboration a natural fit. Loki Software has developed open multimedia standards for gaming such as SDL, SMPEG and OpenAL(TM). Nokia has created the OST (Open Standards Terminal) platform for home entertainment applications based on open source technologies such as, Linux, Xfree86 and Mozilla. The OST provides a platform for developing applications for a variety of electronic devices, the first of which is the Nokia Media Terminal. In addition, Nokia recently announced the launch of ostdev.net, a website dedicated to support developers in the open source community.

“Loki games add great value to our Media Terminal product,” said Rickard Nelger, Head of Product Management, Nokia Home Communications. “Both Nokia and Loki Software will work together to open up access to more Linux games from the comfort of the living room. This collaboration works hand in hand with Nokia's commitment to continuous development of new and interesting products and applications for home environment.”

 
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