Apple Reveals The Next iPad 
An Open Letter To Apple: You Need Gaming As Much As Gaming Needs You 
Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made 
What Are The Best iOS Games Of All Time? 
Video Game Creatives Offer Sombre Tribute To Steve Jobs 
Apple iPhone 4S: Everything You Need To Know (Including Australian Details) Sony’s “Music Unlimited” app, a streaming music service in the vein of Spotify, is launching this week for iPhone and iPad. Previously, it had been available only for Sony devices (including the PS3) and Android phones. [CNET]
Well, this is handy. If you’re looking at doing a Kickstarter game for iOS and you want to distribute your games, for free, to your backers, Apple will now let you do this. All you need to do is ask!
This is AP-PEL “Steve J” Caesar, a tribute to the late Apple co-founder put together by toy company threeA. It’s based on a piece in the company’s existing World War Robot line.
Your living room is the setting of your next first-person shooter. Or maybe its your front yard. Or your office. It’s up to you.
Famed role-playing game music composer Nobuo Uematsu. Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima (Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII). Art director Hideo Minaba (Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy IX). And character designer Nakaba Higurashi (Baiten Kaitos).
In China, workers’ rights kind of suck! So when the folks who make your game consoles and electronics want to protest, they take to the roof and threaten to kill themselves. Lovely.
I’ve never been deer hunting. The words alone don’t even evoke images of wearing orange vests and shooting animals, but, rather, images of Christopher Walkin playing Russian roulette. Oh yes, there is deer hunting in that movie, but I don’t really remember it. Does anyone?
Last month, the original source code for Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia was found in a cupboard, stored on a bunch of old, old Apple II floppy disks — we’re talking over two decades here. While a floppy disk is hardly a difficult piece of media to access, getting the data off the disks wasn’t something Mechner was prepared to leave to chance. Enter the professionals.
The iPad and the iPhone must be made in China. Ditto for, well, most everything. And it’s not only because of cheap Chinese labour. Or sprawling factories. Or lax regulations. Those are reasons, but there’s another one. And it’s one you might not expect: mud.
