“Your iPhone should be an ideal device for playing video games. After all, it has a gloriously large touch-sensitive screen and sensors that can detect when it’s being tilted,” Scott Hillis reports for Reuters.
Hillis reports, “But games for Apple Inc’s iPhone are off to a slow start as the company concentrates instead on making sure the device’s primary features of voice, music and Web browsing run smoothly. ‘Apple wants to be focused on making sure the thing works as a core device,’ said Travis Boatman, vice president of worldwide studios for the mobile division of Electronic Arts Inc. ‘The first few iPods didn’t support games but eventually they did.'”
“One of the first serious efforts came from PopCap Games, a leading developer and publisher of casual games whose slate includes hits like ‘Bejeweled’ and ‘Zuma,'” Hillis reports. “PopCap viewed the project as a proof of concept for doing games on the iPhone, but up to 100,000 people have already played ‘Bejeweled’ on their iPhones in the three weeks since release.”
“And there are hints that Apple is working on games of its own. When Apple updated the iTunes software used to activate the iPhone, curious hackers who looked under the hood quickly found lines of software code indicating that games will be eventually run directly on the iPhone rather than in the browser,” Hillis reports. “That’s not unprecedented: the company developed several of the 18 or so games offered for its iPod media players.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: A collection of games for Apple’s iPhone can be found here: http://macmost.com/iphonegames/
FIRST!! YES!!
To each their own…..Gaming is not a priority for me, even though at times they do provide a time filler or useful distraction.
SECOND? YES?
I hope they have Leisure Suit Larry, it rocked.
NO second. THird?
People who don’t like games are boring.
DAMMIT!!
BARD’S TALE!!!
Apple games – pap, Apples are just toys.
Microsoft is hot for gaming, and I mean HOT.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070823/microsoft_xbox.html?.v=3
@ jas
people who like computer games are lonely!!!
pockettrash,
Turn off your caps lock and go look for a job.
Pfft, where’s the gaming police to tell us we shouldn’t play games on a given device, in this case the iPhone?
@Crabapple
Nice try. Got laid by a hottie this morning before leaving for work to play video games with my friends. Life is great!
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You are so right about Microsoft being so hot!!
“Microsoft is hot for gaming, and I mean HOT.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070823/microsoft_xbox.html?.v=3 “
I think it is so funny that yet another MS product is smoking, literally!!! Can’t these people ever learn and try to do a little Quality review of their hardware?????
And the ladies reply was so funny. If a company (MS) suggests an action, then the consumer should follow its suggestion?????
Microsoft, Your money, Our Greed.
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en
I looked for a job once.
Once.
I’m with jas. Video game programmers are the new rockstars. Makes the girlies wet. I speak from experience.
Bring back Dragon’s Lair.
Ha Ha, Dragon’s lair. I was totally enamored by that game
(even though I really sucked at it).
The Redmond, Wash.-based company said owners of the controller should stop plugging it in, but said it is safe to use with battery power.
This Microsoft solution sponsored by Acme Battery Inc – protecting your environment.
gnat:
Any of various small, biting, two-winged flies, such as a punkie or black fly.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=gnat
Nuze:
Kinda like news
It’s not making girlies wet but bringing tears to their eyes in the nicest possible way that is the most rewarding, ask any good musician.
How many ways can you pluck a keyboard?
No, you should play games. On your iPhone. On your iPod. On your Mac. At home. In the airport. At boring meetings. On Friday nights. Everywhere. All the time. Nothing is more important than playing games. No, I’m serious. You need to go for broke and just play, because well, everyone knows that’s what makes life complete. Get your headset and tell people from India that they suck for busting up your Halo group. Talk in game-speak because that makes you even cooler still. Better yet move back into that basement at your parents so you have more money for MMORPG fees. Play when others are at work so you can get mad skillz. Work is for suckers, you know. Play, play, play.
@BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots= Just made my day, the best ever.
@Gandalf, we all love to please the ladies, and music works well. Cleaning the house works better though
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Yes you should play games, with your girlfriend, boyfriend, or boy-girl friend.
But it’s not very profitable for the corporations.
@Thorin
You missed the subtlety, the subtlety that musicians have in their fingers that is.
Do not mess with wizards for they may become ethereal and even more difficult to grasp.
@Gandalf
Hey there’s a nasty dragon living in my mountain, wanna go take him out?
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