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Let’s All Look At BioShock Running On A Mobile Phone
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Been almost a year to the day since we first heard BioShock was making the jump to mobile phones. And we haven’t heard squat from it since. So let’s catch up with some footage. More »
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iPhone Accounts for 14 Percent of All Mobile Game Downloads
5:00AM Brian Crecente | iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. More »
Square Enix Making iPhone Game
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Square Enix is releasing its first iPhone game this winter. Called Crystal Defenders, the Final Fantasy related title is a map-based “defence simulation” game that (of course) uses the iPhone’s touch interface. Check out some screens after the jump. More »
Nokia Seeks Out Gaming Innovation, Has Cash
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | Sturgeon’s Law states that “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. I don’t think I am being too controversial by suggesting that if Theodore Sturgeon had ever encountered mobile phone games he would have revised upwards. More »
New Square Enix Mobile Game, Role Playing Involved
4:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Sit down folks, Square Enix has announced a new mobile cell phone game called ELLARK. It’s a “free online RPG” and is launching in Japan this June on all three major Japanese carriers. Not many details, but we’re betting nice hairdos are involved. [ELLARK [Official Site via Forever Fantasy via Akayuki] More »Trism iPhoning It In This June (And Cheap!)
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Trism, the clever iPhone puzzler from Demiforce, will be arriving in June for the very reasonable asking price of five American dollars, according to an update from the game’s developer. The Bejeweled-esque title uses the iPhone’s accelerometer for a hardware appropriate block matching twist on the genre, something Apple fans can try for themselves when the demo ships this summer. Demiforce writes that the final product will support online achievement rankings and teases the odd hidden feature. Still filed under “Do Want.” More »Worms 2008 Inching to Mobile Phones
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Other Ocean Working on iPhone Monkey Ball Demo
8:00AM Brian Crecente | I was pretty wowed by the Apple presentation of Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone last month. The use of the tilt controls for this game in particular seem really intuitive. So any news about it, and games like iPhone Spore, make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Today Other Ocean announced that they are working with Sega to develop a demo version of the iPhone game. More »
Quake 3 on iTouch with Tilt Controls
3:00AM Brian Crecente | Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m getting pretty sick of seeing Doom/Quake games show up on everything from calculators to refrigerators too, but this port is a little special. It seems to support both multiplayer gaming and tilt controls. If it’s not being faked, it looks like you move around by tilting your i Pod touch in different directions. Now that’s pretty friggin’ sweet. [Thanks Anthony] More »
