Nokia and publisher THQ Wireless have announced an agreement to bring Team17's Worms World Party to a range of Nokia devices through the N-Gage games service. Worms World Party is to be "massively updated from its origina N-Gage version" and is is expected to be available in the first half of 2008.

The new title is to include "vibrant graphics allowing the player to visualize enemy terrain, while retaining all of the functionality in a reduced size."

Worms World Party is to feature six level themes including hot lava fields, freezing ice caverns, an arid desert, pirate islands, alien space worlds and tribal rock environments. The title also features classic weapons, including the Super Sheep and the Holy Hand-Grenade. Worms World Party is to also takes advantage of the new N-Gage Arena Points feature.

Adam Comiskey, International VP THQ Wireless commented, "Worms has always been a great success on mobile devices and the N-Gage technology has allowed us to produce the most advanced, faithful and visually impressive mobile edition of Worms to date."

"Worms is an excellent fit with the new N-Gage service," added Gregg Sauter, Director of 3rd party publishing, Nokia. "N-Gage is all about fun games that are easy to pick up and hard to put down - which is the Worms experience in a nutshell."