EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: iphone
One of the most innovative titles to be released during the last couple of years is Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for the DS. This award-winning adventure game is the brainchild of Shu Takumi - the creator of the Ace Attorney series, and is now available to download from iTunes as a “free” app.
Holy cow! Did you know about this? Why didn’t anyone say anything?! The Excellent Game Psychonauts (just ‘Psychonauts’ to its friends) is now available on the Mac!
Not only that, but Double Fine’s masterful action platform game has received an update for the Steam version of the game, while a new “companion iOS app” is now available via the App Store. What’s included in the Steam update? A “slightly modified” version of the infamous Meat Circus level, amongst others.
This is a great day, everybody.
Today Bethesda made the iOS variant of RAGE free for one week to express their gratitude for reaching 100 000 fans on Facebook. The first-person rail shooter usually costs $2 on the App Store.
The game is available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, with the regular version sapping up 540 MB of your bandwidth and the HD variant 747 MB.
The last few years have seen thousands of indie games appearing on iOS devices and mobile phones, some of which have gone on to make millions for their developers. Xbox 360 has an indie games section on Xbox LIVE marketplace but Sony’s current consoles – PlayStation 3 and PSP - have never really hosted games by ‘garage developers’ in a meaningful way.
That’s all set to change, according to comments made by president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS) Shuhei Yoshida during a recent interview with Develop.
If you’re sick and tired of waiting around for big-budget JRPGs like Final Fantasy Versus XIII to appear on store shelves, then it might be worth considering some of Square Enix’s more modest titles which are currently available for purchase.
A good example of such a game is Chaos Rings Omega which dropped onto the iTunes Store yesterday. It’s a JRPG for iOS devices with character designs by the great Yusuke Naora - the art director for such classics as Final Fantasy VII, VIII and X.
If you’ve got a portable Apple device with iOS 3.2 or later you’re in luck. Square Enix have just launched a free app on iTunes called ‘Imaginary Range.’ The publishers claim it represents “a new genre of entertainment: a hybrid comic and game experience.”
Imaginary Range was developed by H.A.N.D. - the studio responsible for Final Fantasy: Chocobo Tales on the Nintendo DS. It includes English, French and Japanese text, and is 153 MB to download.
There used to be a trend in gaming during the late 90’s and early noughties where games would get more complicated each year in order to be a good game. Thank goodness that trend quickly faded. We are now in the age of casual gaming. Games like Farmville and Plants vs. Zombies are great examples of how the simplest concept can be turned into an extremely addictive game. The best-selling game on Apple’s iTunes last year was a little title named Angry Birds. You might have heard of it?
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Angry Birds.
For some time now, El33tonline has been keeping a very interested eye on Infinity Blade, Epic Games and Chair’s Entertainment’s visually astounding iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game, what with the title’s Unreal Engine 3-powered technology and all.
Now, today, this action RPG is ready and waiting for your purchase.
So, the first thing you need to know about the following gameplay trailer is that this game, Infinity Blade, is releasing for iOS devices, which means it’ll become available to play on Apple’s holy trinity: the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The second thing you should know is that this game, Infinity Blade, uses a specialised version of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 – technology that has powered some of the most impressive games we’ve yet seen on consoles, including Epic’s own Gears of War.
The third thing you probably need to know about Infinity Blade? It blows away the competition, at least graphically, as no other iOS device game that I’ve personally seen can touch this… with the exception of id Software’s RAGE on iPhone.
Watch this mind-numbingly impressive debut trailer for Epic and Chair’s Infinity Blade action RPG, running on iPhone, below:
Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have today announced Infinity Blade for iPhone and iOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch), a new action-RPG sword fighting game that will become available this holiday season.
Infinity Blade was first revealed to gamers under the working title ‘Project Sword,’ while over one million people have already experienced a small part of the game with the release of the free iPhone app, ‘Epic Citadel.’
Why is Infinity Blade going to be awesome?
Today’s the day Sonic fans can finally get their hands on the latest 2D adventures of ‘The Blue Speedster,’ and to celebrate the occasion SEGA has unleashed a fantastic launch trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1.
In the trailer, you’ll be able to get some sneak peeks at a few of the environments, boss fights and crazy situations players will find themselves in, and you can watch all of that action below:
Although the downloadable title was meant to release a little earlier this year, the development team behind Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 wisely decided to delay the game’s release, not only to ensure “overall high-quality throughout the game,” but also to add iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) to the list of release platforms.
Now almost four months later, SEGA has announced a set of official release dates for Sonic 4: Episode 1 as the title hits a variety of game devices, in a variety of territories.
Just to remind everyone that a brand new, improved and excellent-looking Sonic game is on the way, SEGA has unleashed a fantastic gameplay trailer featuring the hasty little blue dude speeding his way around what looks to be a Labyrinth-type level, all in amazing high definition visuals!
Those sound effects are still pretty ‘classic,’ though, if you know what I mean…
Enjoy some gameplay footage from Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 below:
At Apple’s Special Event today, Epic Games president Mike Capps and Chair Entertainment creative director Donald Mustard revealed the next game from the developers’ respective studios, ‘Project Sword,’ for iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
[Update] Added a video showcasing the iPhone version of RAGE - it looks amazing! Watch below. [End of Update]
During John Carmack’s recent QuakeCon 2010 keynote, the id Software co-founder and technical director opened his talk with his “neat” unannounced “something” that he teased via Twitter recently.
It’s a side-project that he’s been working on recently thanks to extra time afforded to him following id Software’s acquisition by Zenimax. Now that he doesn’t have to worry too much about the business side of the company, he can focus on programming, and the iPhone and iPad versions of RAGE are the result of his ‘extra’ time.
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