Rumours which surfaced last week surrounding word from a Russian gaming site that John Romero has seen a version of the 2 were rubbished by the designer yesterday, the handheld games creator stating simply that the interview published with him was totally incorrect.

Romero told Gamesindustry.biz the following:

"I was talking to some guy, who I did not know was a journalist, and he asked me what I thought of the N-Gage. I told him, then he told me that he thought it had an awful design with the MMC chip and the way you talk on it... I just said, 'Yeah, well Nokia's fixing those problems in their next one.'"

So there we have it - no sign of an improved N-Gage yet then. Romero also added that himself and colleague Tom Hall were both well received at the KRI games convention held in Moscow, from whence the flawed reports emerged.

By Luke Guttridge