Doodle Jump is now an icon of iPhone gaming, but it almost died at launch after selling just 21 copies on its first day of release. How did developer Lima Sky get from there to Doodle Jump being a more famous app than anything not called Angry Birds? The answer is a strange mix of snack food, bubble wrap, blogger nagging, brotherly co-operation and sheer luck.
OK, interesting is the polite way of me saying “It makes me uncomfortable”. That might have something to do with the fact that I once worked as the studio’s PR and media relations guy until September of this year. If I was still in that position, I might have thought twice about making this video.
Activision commissioned TwitchGames, makers of Slice HD, to create a Prototype 2-themed minigame available now for iOS devices on the iTunes App Store. It’s a big free ad for the upcoming game, but it’s also a small free game that utilises the multitouch interface in a challenging way.
Say it ain’t so! The Dude, Jeff Bridges’ pot-head bowling anti-hero of film The Big Lebowski, has managed to get himself tied up with Kim Jong Il’s North Korean regime.
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.
iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday.
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.
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.
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]
