Two auto performance meters for iPhone
July 30, 2008
I’ve seen a lot of fun accelerometer uses in the App Store so far, but that is probably the coolest — Dynolicious will actually use your iPhone’s accelerometer to determine all kinds of stuff about how awesome your ‘92 Subaru is, from 0-60 and 1/4 mile duration up to lateral Gs and horsepower. Just…
iPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments
July 25, 2008
Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino. Mr. Jobs, TEAR DOWN that NDA.
If the new iPhone 2.1 beta firmware is anything, it’s a perfect excuse to say: “I told you so.” It explains why the NDA floped to vanish on schedule. Apple kept its promise — “Ve shall delivah the 2.0 iPhone und…
Longtime mobile developer feels no love from Apple
July 18, 2008
Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs produce it to the store.
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First Look: Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
July 18, 2008
One game that jumped out at me while I was pawing through the virtual game racks at the App Store was Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D from Vivendi Games Mobile.
A racing game featuring Playstation perennial Crash Bandicoot, Nitro Kart 3D is certain to wear out your iPhone batteries quickly. tha…
TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone
July 18, 2008
In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. that is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright’s sure…
iPhone game news from EA’s press conference at E3
July 15, 2008
I’m at E3 in Los Angeles all week for TUAW’s sister site Joystiq, and that afternoon we got to see the Electronic Arts press conference at the Orpheum Theater. Among bigger EA games like Spore and Dead Space, Travis Boatman (who has graced these pages before talking about mobile games on the iPh…
First Looks: Blackjack 21 and Shanghai Mahjong
July 14, 2008
Today, I got a chance to play Mobile Age’s two App Store games: Blackjack 21 and Shanghai Mahjong. As the names propose, these two familiar classics were ported to the iPhone platform. I started off with the Mahjong, which is a solitaire game the goal of which is to remove all the tiles on-s…
