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2K Finally Invites Mac Users to Rapture

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Up until now, the city of Rapture’s motto read:  “No Gods or Kings (Or Mac Users).  Only Man.”  But 2K Games has recently lifted the ban on hip, culture-savvy aesthetes who also dig first-person shooters:
Finally, two years after the original release of BioShock, Mac owners get a chance to see what all of the fuss [...]

Namco Bandai: “Thar’s Gold In Them Thar iPhones!”

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The iPhone continues to be one of the first dream machines of the 21st century – a device that is fast becoming everything to everyone. Doctors are using it to monitor patients. Drivers are using it as a GPS. Manga fans are using it to read Hentai in public without scrutiny. [...]

iPhone 3.0 Firmware Now Live

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

For those of you that love your gaming with a healthy dose of “casual,” and a dollop of “interrupted by a phone call,” the iPhone 3.0 firmware has been available for the last hour or so. Go pick it up, let us know if you see any uptick in the performance. I’m hoping [...]

Peggle For iPhone/iPod Touch On Sale For $0.99 Thru This Weekend

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Peggle, the highly addictive ball shooting game (think The Price Is Right game Plinko, hosted by a unicorn named Bjorn…that is not a joke), is currently on sale in the iTunes store for $0.99. This is a fantastic deal on a game that will keep your face shoved in your mobile device of choice [...]

Tap Tap Revenge 2 FTW!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

With music games at their peak right now, it’s no wonder musicians and labels look at the zeroes on the end of a developers quarterly numbers and want to dive into that pie like Jason Biggs on a kitchen counter. Last year, Nate True and Tapulous legally released a little game called Tap Tap [...]

Open Thread: What’s Your Favorite iPhone Game?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

When it comes to people that don’t own an iPhone, the Greatest Device That Has Ever Existed seems to have caught a bit of the Dave Matthews syndrome – they tend to hate the smartphone more because of the people that own it, rather than for the merits of the phone itself. I can [...]

Best $.99 Spent (Game Version)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

A little while back I wrote an article about Ocarina for iPhone by Smule, which was by far the best 99 cents I have ever spent. Well, last night while chilling in a bar I found the next best 99 cents spent, or as the title implies, the best as far as games are [...]

I Said Frickin’ “Lay-Zers”

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Ah yes, the world of the iPhone free/trial applications:  so simply created, so meritless in being, so easily downloaded and then disposed of.  But every now and then you find a gem.  I speak of handy apps like Dual Level and flashlight and entertaining “lite” versions of games like Chimps Ahoy and Morocco.
 
But one game [...]