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Adult Swim's My Lil' Bastard coming to iPhone next week
Adult Swim Games is slowly porting all of its most popular Flash games to the iPhone. Amateur Surgeon has already proven to be very popular, as has 5 Minutes to Kill (Yourself), and squad-based shooter Meowcenaries. Next up is virtual pet simulator My Lil' Bastard, a game of violence, vomiting, and poop jokes.
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R18+ classification for video games finally coming to Australia?
The Australian federal government has released a discussion paper summarising the key arguments for and against an R18+ classification for computer games. You can download the full report from the federal Attorney-General's department Web site.
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Pac-Man Championship Edition coming to iPhone this Thursday
Namco Bandai's incredibly popular Xbox Live Arcade game Pac-Man Championship Edition has long been rumored as a prospective iPhone and iPod Touch title, but the company has stayed remarkably quiet about the subject. They broke their silence this evening however, and have confirmed that the game will be available in the App Store this Thursday.
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Etsy artist selling wallets made out of Atari carts
I have never, in my 28 years of life, had a wallet that would be considered fashionable or cool. I also have a severe lack of wallet organisation skills, which leads to important credit cards getting sandwiched in-between retail store discount cards and cash being buried under unnecessary bar receipts. In short, I've spent my entire wallet-owning existence with a real-life Costanza wallet. Fortunately, a new Etsy store has opened today that may be the cure to my many money-holding ills.
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Rockstar makes iPhone debut with Beaterator
With the company's wares not performing up to expectations on the DS and PSP, it should come as no surprise that Rockstar is now looking to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch as potential new gaming platforms. The company announced via their newswire that its first official game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, the Timbaland-headlined music-creation title Beaterator, has released today for US$4.99.
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EA's John Riccitiello looks to digital future
With EA downsizing its current teams and looking at scaling back on the number of products it releases at retail in a year to 30 or 40 (from north of 60) you may be wondering how the company will start to grow its business in the year ahead. For a hint of what's to come, look no further than the company's acquisition of Playfish last month, and its new business models around iPhone games and web games like the EA 2D projects.
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Tiger Woods 'domestic dispute' gets video game sendup
Less than a week after Tiger Woods made headlines for an alleged domestic dispute that resulted in a car smash, a Flash game developer has immortalised the incident in a free game. Enter 'Tiger Woods Wife Outrun'. In this side-scrolling driving game from Break.com, you control Tiger Woods in his Escalade as he attempts to avoid golf-club chastisement from his angry model wife. Hit the link to play the game.
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ESRB releases iPhone app for parents
Listen up Moms and Dads, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is giving away a handy new iPhone tool that'll help you quick-check what's what when it comes to game content. Not that the little black-and-white rectangles voluntarily stamped on game jackets are tricky to understand at a glance, but this app's more than just a reference tool for the industry-representin' ESRB's alpha-numeric rating schema: It'll let you quick-check the ratings summary of any game you're thinking of buying, too.
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Video games to help STEM learning in the United States
In support of President Obama's call for a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) have teamed up with Sony Computer Entertainment America, Microsoft, and the MacArthur Foundation and announced a number of efforts to motivate students. The organizations are aiming to leverage the interest that kids have in video games and inspire them through a series of STEM-related design competitions. This is part of the administration's extensive "Educate to Innovate" program, outlined today.
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Ravensword: It's like Elder Scrolls for the iPhone
Powered by the same impressive Unity 3D engine that has made a number of other well-executed 3D titles possible on the iPhone, as well as Cartoon Network's impressive FusionFall browser-based RPG, Ravensword: The Fallen King is the closest thing to an Elder Scrolls style game on Apple's platform yet.
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Apple looks for 'AAA developer' for internal video game team
While the iPhone has become a powerful force in the portable gaming market, it has done so almost entirely due to software created by third parties.
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NPD: Uncharted 2 leads October sales, Wii outsells PS3
We've just received the NPD sales results for October 2009, and it looks the new releases and price drops have brought about some big changes on the charts. On the hardware side, in the Wii's first full month at US$200, Nintendo's console managed to outsell every other system, including the DS. The PlayStation 3's sales cooled significantly in its second price-dropped month, as the system went from selling almost 500,000 consoles to a little over 300,000. That's almost a 40 percent drop. Meanwhile, the PSP Go did little to change Sony's fortune for October, as PSP sales actually dropped compared to September. The Xbox 360 also saw a lull in sales, as the system sold around 100,000 less units than it did in September. Here is the entire hardware rankings for October.
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Doom 2 RPG, Orcs & Elves and possibly Rage coming to iPhone
In a blog post regarding the release and ongoing support of Doom Classic on the iPhone, Id Software technical director John Carmack shared his musings on possible future projects for the device. "We do read all the reviews in the App store," he stated, "and we do plan on supporting Doom Classic with updates. Everything is still an experiment for us on the iPhone, and we are learning lessons with each product. At this point, we do not plan on making free lite versions of future products, since we didn't notice anything worth the effort with Wolfenstein, and other developers have reported similar findings."
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert available now on iPhone
Electronic Arts has been teasing the existence of its iPhone port of the classic real time strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert for a while now, but the game finally arrived in the app store yesterday for the premium price of US$9.99.
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eGames Expo 2009: Interview with Peter Barlow
Yesterday PC World attended the eGames Expo 2009 at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. Although it was a slightly quieter affair compared to previous years, there were still plenty of games, gadgets and exhibits vying for punters' attention, including playable previews of Assassin's Creed 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Avatar in 3D.
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Official Catan game released for iPhone
Settlers of Catan, for those of you unfamiliar, is an extremely popular board game that was first released in Germany in 1995. It has since sold over 15 million copies, and is regarded by board game aficionados as one of the finest examples of strategic gameplay available. The basic premise concerns the building of settlements and infrastructure and the subsequent gathering of resources on a hex-shaped, tiled-based playing board. It can be played by up to four players, and the game offers a variety of different victory scenarios that reward players for meeting a variety of different goals.
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Rock Band is the top grossing app on iTunes
It's not just the top grossing game on the app store, but Harmonix' Rock Band is pulling in more money than any other app in the app store right now. The game, which hit earlier this week for $12.99, includes 20 tracks that can be played on the device's touchscreen with all four of the franchise's trademark instruments (yes, including vocals) fully implemented for both single player and multiplayer sessions. The game supports Bluetooth enabled four player gameplay, but currently no Wi-Fi or Internet play. Songs can be download from the app for $0.99 each.
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Earthworm Jim hits iPhone this Wednesday
Another old-school classic hits a new platform this week, this time in the shape of Shiny Entertainment's Earthworm Jim.
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Rock Band available now on iPhone
With some considerable fanfare, Electronic Arts and Harmonix released the latest version of Rock Band (iTunes link) today -- it's now a US$9.99 iPhone app with in-game song purchasing enabled.
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Major iPhone devs make apps free, add in-game purchases
Our Apple-focused affiliate, MacWorld, discovered earlier today that an update to the iPhone Developer Program has allowed the use of in-app transactions in free apps, a practice that was previously limited to paid apps. With iPhone game developers dealing with dramatic price shifts and major difficulty selling titles for anything but the lowest prices, this may present an opportunity to developer a more stable way to make money from their apps.
