Buongiorno from the Nokia Game Summit in Rome! The city is recovering from the worst rainstorms in 50 years, but luckily the weather has improved and the floods haven't knocked out the Wi-FI in the press room.

Just wanted to quickly post on some N-Gage stuff that's been revealed so far. Nokia's executive vice-president of entertainment and communication, Tero Ojanpera, has just been on stage to talk a little about the company's vision for its games platform. The desire, going forward, is to integrate all the functionality of your phone into games – a lot more than we're already seeing; so we'll get games that use your camera, Nokia Maps and GPS, as well as social networking features.

Apparently there are now 400,000 users with N-Gage Arena profiles at the moment – quite a small number when you consider the many millions of N-Gage enabled devices available out there. They're very much viewing the April launch of the platform as a 'soft launch', and are ramping up to something bigger once more phones come with N-Gage embedded.

Anyway, they've announced an interesting new game….

Dance Fabulous, due out next year, is a sort of rhythm action title, in which you create and customise an avatar then build a range of dance moves into your own routine. Apparently, there are plans to integrate with Nokia's music store so you can get the character to dance to real tracks. You'll also be able to upload your dance routines to a community site.

The game has been developed in collaboration with ex-Eurythmics star, Dave Stewart and will feature up-and-coming US pop starlet Cindy Gomez, whose own moves have been motion-captured and included. Apparently, I'll be meeting both of them later.

More soon...