Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
My all-time favorite iPhone app, MLB’s At Bat [App Store link], is all new for the 2009 baseball season. For the uninitiated, At Bat provides nearly real-time statistics for ongoing games, including scoring, current batter and pitcher, stats, the count at the plate … even video clips from a game that’s in progress.
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Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Toy Bot Diaries is a fun little series of platforming games with a physics twist — you probably saw it on those early iPod touch gaming commercials. It features a little robot jumping around levels with a grappling hook and some magnetic boots. If you haven’t picked it up yet, now’s the
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What’s bigger than a store, a market, or a catalog? A whole frigging world, that’s what. A sign-up page to be notified when the BlackBerry App World is available — which we’ve linked — will go live at 10PM tonight.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
RIM names its app store ‘BlackBerry App World’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:09:00
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Whoever put together GiPhone F5 seems to have done a pretty good job of mimicking the iPhone’s UI, but other than that the deets are rather sketchy. This bad boy seems to be a 3G handset with a capacitive 3.2-inch multitouch screen, Bluetooth, “kinds of games,” and up to 16GB internal memory. Sounds wonderful, sure, but don’t give up your
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While most folks welcome gaming devices that do more than simply play games, Texas-based Wall Wireless LLC seems to think that’s a bit over the line, at least when it’s not getting a piece of the action. More specifically, the little known company says that Sony, Nintendo, and Nokia are infringing on its patent for a “Method and Apparatus for
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Well, kids — if you’ve been using Sony’s Go!Messenger service (all three of you), we have some sad news. It looks like the company will be putting the brakes on the thing, citing lack of consumer interest. “Although Go!Messenger brought innovative communications features to the PSP community, the service has not developed the base of users” Sony was hoping for,
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plaYce which showcased at last year’s Techcrunch50 is today announcing the beta launch of its Game-Platform-as-a-Service, aimed at assisting game developers bring high-quality 3D game play right into the browser. Games in plaYce are based on 3D renderings of real cities such as San Francisco and New York.
500 private beta invites for both users and developers are available exclusively
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InstantAction today officially unveiled its technology platform, which purportedly makes it possible to play any video game in a web browser. Not just 2D casual games, but hardcore 3D games with high-end graphics that would otherwise require a next-gen game console, or a huge client install on the PC.
Even, say, World of Warcraft, played in a browser?
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It’s no secret that the iPhone is one of gaming’s hottest new platforms, and while many of the games on the App Store leave something to be desired, every once in awhile we stumble across a game sporting very high production values that rival dedicated videogame systems. This weekend, Resolution Interactive unveiled a new game called Aqua Moto that
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Freeware, Internet, Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch
The folks behind the popular Aurora Feint series of iPhone games have decided to share their work creating a “social MMO” system on the iPhone with other developers. They’ve just announced a system called “OpenFeint,” which other devs will be able to license and use
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It’s been out in Japan since November 1st of last year, but this April 5th is as good a time as any for Nintendo to finally launch the DSi in the United States. With the MSRP set at $169.99, Nintendo is hoping that potential customers will be able to overlook the somewhat steep price as a small cost when compared
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Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
I’ve said in this space before that I’m not always an enthusiastic gamer, but lately some really cool games have appeared that use the iPhone’s capabilities to the max.
A good example is First Contact [App Store link], a new game for the iPhone/iPod touch. The game is US $2.99 and certainly packs a
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Microsoft is apparently negotiating the proposed $35 million purchase of Israeli technology company 3DV Systems. 3DV makes a consumer video camera called Z-Cam that mounts to the top of a TV set or computer monitor allowing you to “use your body freely to control games, no wearables required, no limitations attached.”
In what has to be one of the sloppiest undertakings we’ve seen in recent history, Nokia has officially announced the N86 8MP today at Mobile World Congress. First it was presumed to be a leak, then it was revealed to be a bungle and now Nokia has finally decided to show off its first 8 megapixel camera phone in Barcelona.
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Aurora Feint (iTunes Link) is a popular and very addictive RPG puzzle game notable for effectively merging game play with an online a community and real time chat – features that are still unfortunately lacking in many iPhone games that fail to tap into the network effect. Now, the developers of Aurora Feint are releasing OpenFeint, an API that
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Freeware, iTunes, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Our friends at Wired recently asked their readers what their favorite iPhone games were, and their list is a pretty darn good overview of some of the best choices for gamers on the App Store. Some of the picks are already well known — we posted about
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