The App Store Gets a Little Smaller: ngmoco Acquires Freeverse
Big news today as two of the iPhone’s biggest game makers become one through acquisition. ngmoco, makers of such hits as Rolando 2 and Eliminate Pro, has purchased Freeverse, another hit game maker with some significant successes under its belt, including many early App Store hits. Flick Fishing and Moto Chaser might ring some bells,...
OnLive demos Crysis on iPhone, expects to go to iPad
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OnLive was at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last week, where they showed their game streaming software running on the iPhone again. This time they had Crysis going, and apparently the demo...Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone
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Last week we noted the impending arrival PopCap's ridiculously addictive Plants vs. Zombies onto the iPhone / iPod touch, and now this marvelous time-waster has landed. A variant of the the tower...Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone
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Doom II RPG unleashed on iPhone
Filed under: Gaming, App Review
I remember there being a joke about new devices coming out: Yeah, but does it run Doom? The iPhone does, and apparently Id is on a hot streak now. According to TouchArcade, the Doom II RPG [$3.99, Meet the guys behind Pocket God
Their pygmy-killing iPhone game is the unlikely winner of this year's "Best App Ever" award
It started as a week-long "sprint project" — a bit of bare-bones entertainment for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, written as quickly as possible and published last January.
Within hours, users were complaining on the Internet that the game — which involved bumping off...
Riven coming to iPhone
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Here's great news for Myst fans with iPhones -- a port of Riven will be available this year.According to a post on the Myst Online Forums, the game is in development and will be released "...by...
Bitboxland for iPhone Or: How I Learned To Let Go Of My Nerd Rage and Love the Sounds
I’ve never taken psychedelic drugs. I mean, the idea of eating a mushroom that grew on the shady side of a cow’s turd sounds just as appealing to me as the next guy, but the opportunity never came up. So when I saw what looked like the iPhone app equivalent of an acid trip in...
Patent hints at next generation Apple TV
Filed under: Gaming, Hardware, Video
The USPTO has published seven different patents from Apple today, including one that might be found in the next generation of the Apple TV. The patent allows for a "Remote Control System that can Distinguish...Why 4:3?
Filed under: Gaming, Hardware, Apple
Kirk McElhearn over at Macworld has attempted to answer the very first question I've had since I first heard that the iPad wasn't going to be in a widescreen format: Why 4:3? The answer: because...


