Archive for the ‘Platforms: iOS’ Category

Apple Demands 3.0 Support

May 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the new iPhoneOS 3.0 coming this summer, Apple demands that developers upgrade their mobile games and applications. Developers who don’t might risk their revenues from the App Store.

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Details new iPhone Emerge

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A Chinese user on WeiPhone posted a screenshot revealing technical updates of the ‘new iPhone’. He also commented on some of the hardware rumors that are flying around.

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Xbox Chief Heads to Apple

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

Apple’s iPhone is already more often compared to handheld consoled then other mobile phones. It seems Apple is set to expand their iPhone as a gaming device as they hired Richard Teversham, a former senior director for the Xbox console.

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Tecmo Heads to iPhone

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last time I had seen Tecmo do something with mobile was at the E3 in 2005. As most people on the event said, their quality was behind the standards at that time. Now the company takes on the iPhone and the first screens show that they have learned a lot in the mean time.

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App Store Downloads Pass One-Billion!

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we wanted to start with ‘Finally!’, it is actually amazing that Apple has managed to push over one billion app store downloads since the start, but what does it mean?

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iDonkeyKong, Apple Hasn’t Learned…

April 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last month, we reported the seize and desist letter that Nintendo sent to the developer of the Duckhunt game that was being sold in the App Store as well as Nintendo’s mission to take the Game & Watch collection offline. Now, Apple approved iDonkeyKong.

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Baby Shaker Kicked from App Store

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The Baby Shaker was probably one of the most controversial apps that launched in the past weeks. Following numerous complaints from human rights organizations, Apple has now removed the app from the App Store.

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12 Year Old Releases iPhone Game

April 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The iPhone is not only changing the way the mobile games industry works, but also affecting programming hobbyists around the world. As so, a 12 year old kid has just released its first iPhone game.

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Aurora Feint Opens iPromote

April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In order to stimulate the uptake of their Xbox Live like environment called OpenFeint (1.5), Aurora Feint is adding new One Touch iPromote functionality to their system.

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Gimme5Games Heads Mobile (Again)

April 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Most of you probably still remember Matt Spall’s mobile games company called Morpheme. Around the time he sold it to Eidos, he also changed the name and strategy. From that time on, the company was a general casual game developer under the name of Gimme5Games and would not touch mobile until…