Tag Archives: iphone

An iPhone Case Review: My book is ringing.

  It’s almost unsettling how many choices you have when deciding what kind of iPhone case you’d like to buy. Do you get one that charges your phone, or looks cool?   Is it a wallet? Or a steering wheel? The BookBook fits into the wallet category.

Game Dev Story Review

Game Dev Story is a business simulation about choices. What genre, what platform, and what theme do you want for your game? Is the game cute and simple or realistic and innovative? Do you want to use an in-house art, story, and audio folks or outsource assets and writing? There are quite a few choices [...]

How the App Store was won

[Various points of data showing how iPhone OS app, iTeleport generates a ton of revenue despite being priced at $25 snipped...] We also hope this demonstrates that you can build a business on the App Store.  That doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that you’ll automatically make more money if you raise your price, or that [...]

It’s about time

I wandered up to Scott, who was leaning against a table showcasing the new device, introduced myself, and got right down to business. “Why’s the time changed? Heck, why does the iPhone show 9:42 in the first place?” Scott looked around conspiratorially, and then chuckled. “You want to know the real reason for that time?” [...]

Hook Champ Preview

Rocketcat Games has been running a pre-release adhoc beta of Hook Champ. It is an 8-bit style side-scroller with very simple touch controls. You’re an infamous adventurer that starts each mission by swapping out a fancy idol for a fake one, of course it never works and you’re left to run away with your treasure. [...]

iPhone Doom Classic Progress Report

I have been spending the majority of my time working on iPhone Doom Classic for several weeks now, and the first beta build went out to some external testers a couple days ago. I am moving back on to Rage for a while, but I expect to be able to finish it up for submission [...]

iGame Squadron #8

Reviewed: Zombiegame D-Crypto Baseball Batter Up Baseball iSniper Linky linky.

MLB At Bat 2009 Review (iPhone)

I’ve been listening to MLB.app since the start of the season and as rocky as it has been for the fighting phils, the app has been great. It streams audio from the Phillies home radio station, even though I’m in San Francisco. It plays highlight videos from mlb.tv. It costs $10 per season, whereas the [...]

iGame Squadron #7

Mafia Wars UniWar Baseball Superstars Reviewed!

Wolfenstein 3D Updated, Cydia Pirates out of Luck

The pirates using the Cydia version of Wolfenstein 3D are now out of luck if they want the latest version. Wolfenstein 3D Classic for the iPhone (I reviewed it favorably here) has now been updated and the GPL release hasn’t been. So if you want the latest version of the app, you’re going to have [...]

The iGame Squadron Flies Only On Mondays

My latest set of iPhone and iPod Touch game reviews are up on AtomicGamer: GeoDefense Eliss Tap Memory Wifi Fighters Ch…ch..check it out!

Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job

The New York Times has an article up about the “iPhone Gold Rush”. It features iShoot developer Ethan Nicholas, and is pretty well written, go check it out. I’m not quite sure why it is in the fashion section, but at least it has some good sources. Like Ars Technica’s Erica Sadun.

Wolfenstein 3D and the Pirates of Cydia.

One of the problems with releasing your source code with your data is when people stab you in the back for doing so. Soon, my next set of iPhone game reviews will go up on AtomicGamer, including Wolfenstein 3D Classic. While investigating the game for review, I came across a version on the Jailbroken iPhone [...]

Aliens Versus Predator on the iPhone

Skype on MY iPhone?

It is more likely than you think.