If you were wondering how many characters could fit into an iPhone version of Street Fighter IV, the answer is now known: eight. While Ken and Ryu were shoe-ins, confirmed in the first video trailer are Chun-Li, Blanka, Bison, Dhalsim, Abel, and Guile. Each will have their own stage as well. It is disheartening to listen [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
If you were planning on pre-ordering Super Street Fighter IV, Capcom is offering some incentives. Best Buy and Amazon customers get timed exclusive costumes, including a super awesome Kato outfit for Fei Long that is full of nostalgic Bruce Lee win. Gamestop gets the short end with some thumb covers used for thumb wrestling, featuring [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Everyone loved playing Street Fighter IV on the super-accurate, precision instrument that is the Xbox 360 d-pad, right? Well, imagine playing the same thing on the virtual d-pad on the iPhone, surely a pleasant experience, right? Cynicism aside, Capcom is in fact porting the title to the iPhone, joining Resident Evil 4 as their previous console-to-iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 7, 2010
One of Blizzard's newest services in development is the ability to let players access the Auction House directly through the Armory Website and Mobile Armory iPhone/ iPod App.
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
EA Interactive has acquired the social games developer Playfish for $275 million in cash, along with $25 million in equity retention arrangements and $100 million in performance-based considerations through the end of 2011. Playfish was founded in 2007 and now boasts over 60 million active players each month for its ten games, including Restaurant City, Pet [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Just a note: If you’re reading this, and you’ve pirated Tap-Fu or any other iPhone game (or really any game at all for that matter), you’re an asshole. That out of the way, developer Smells Like Donkey posted a fantastic insight into the sales vs. piracy debate and how it affected their small iPhone game. Simply [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Beating the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, and PSP combined, the iPhone is the choice for gamers who need a rapid fix of new games… even if 3,000 of the 6,200 of them are Arkanoid clones*. Over 1,500 games are currently free to download, with the puzzle genre taking up most of the virtual space [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 19, 2008
So what if it’s been a few years since we heard even so much as a rumbling about Microsoft’s Xbox Live Anywhere initiative? In theory, we should be walking around town with our cell phones, detailing Forza cars, and sending invites to friends. A little piece of that idea is now floating around to [...]
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