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…
id’s Hollenshead: Apple “has not followed through” on gaming
July 10, 2008
id software’s CEO Todd Hollenshead met up with Kikizo for an interview recently, and the conversation turned, as often seems to do with id nowadays, to gaming on the Mac. Hollenshead was confronted with what his peers Gabe Newell (of Valve), and id’s John Carmack had previously said about Apple,…
Ambrosia working on Mr. Sukdoku and Aki Mahjong Mobile for the App Store
July 8, 2008
touchArcade has a quick look up at Ambrosia’s new version of the old Sudoku game for the iPhone, coming soo to an App Store near you. It looks like Sudoku to us — there’s numbers, squares, and entering one in the other with the touchscreen to fill out the puzzle. Yup, seems like whether you wan…
Square surprises us with Song Summoner for the iPod
July 8, 2008
Square Enix has released their new game for the iPod, called — wait, hold the iPhone. Say what again? Square Enix has apparently been hiding a huge secret, and the word is out already in iTunes. They’ve developed an iPod classic game called Song Summoner, and whether the video above is any indi…
