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Apple working on iPhone games?
Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 02:55 PM EST

"Your iPhone should be an ideal device for playing video games. After all, it has a gloriously large touch-sensitive screen and sensors that can detect when it's being tilted," Scott Hillis reports for Reuters.

Hillis reports, "But games for Apple Inc's iPhone are off to a slow start as the company concentrates instead on making sure the device's primary features of voice, music and Web browsing run smoothly. 'Apple wants to be focused on making sure the thing works as a core device,' said Travis Boatman, vice president of worldwide studios for the mobile division of Electronic Arts Inc. 'The first few iPods didn't support games but eventually they did.'"

"One of the first serious efforts came from PopCap Games, a leading developer and publisher of casual games whose slate includes hits like 'Bejeweled' and 'Zuma,'" Hillis reports. "PopCap viewed the project as a proof of concept for doing games on the iPhone, but up to 100,000 people have already played 'Bejeweled' on their iPhones in the three weeks since release."

"And there are hints that Apple is working on games of its own. When Apple updated the iTunes software used to activate the iPhone, curious hackers who looked under the hood quickly found lines of software code indicating that games will be eventually run directly on the iPhone rather than in the browser," Hillis reports. "That's not unprecedented: the company developed several of the 18 or so games offered for its iPod media players."

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Aug 23, 07 - 02:07 pm Comment from: pockettrash

FIRST!! YES!!

Aug 23, 07 - 02:07 pm Comment from: Crabapple

To each their own.....Gaming is not a priority for me, even though at times they do provide a time filler or useful distraction.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:12 pm Comment from: pockettrash

SECOND? YES?

Aug 23, 07 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Thorin

I hope they have Leisure Suit Larry, it rocked.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:13 pm Comment from: pockettrash

NO second. THird?

Aug 23, 07 - 02:13 pm Comment from: jas

People who don't like games are boring.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:14 pm Comment from: pockettrash

DAMMIT!!

Aug 23, 07 - 02:14 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

BARD'S TALE!!!

Aug 23, 07 - 02:18 pm Comment from: Gnat Nuze

Apple games - pap, Apples are just toys.

Microsoft is hot for gaming, and I mean HOT.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070823/microsoft_xbox.html?.v=3

Aug 23, 07 - 02:27 pm Comment from: Crabapple

@ jas
people who like computer games are lonely!!!

Aug 23, 07 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Thorin

pockettrash,

Turn off your caps lock and go look for a job.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:34 pm Comment from: Chris ][

Pfft, where's the gaming police to tell us we shouldn't play games on a given device, in this case the iPhone?

Aug 23, 07 - 02:35 pm Comment from: jas

@Crabapple

Nice try. Got laid by a hottie this morning before leaving for work to play video games with my friends. Life is great! smile

Aug 23, 07 - 02:35 pm Comment from: @Zune Tang (Gnat Nuze) :-)

You are so right about Microsoft being so hot!!

"Microsoft is hot for gaming, and I mean HOT.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070823/microsoft_xbox.html?.v=3 "

I think it is so funny that yet another MS product is smoking, literally!!! Can't these people ever learn and try to do a little Quality review of their hardware?????

And the ladies reply was so funny. If a company (MS) suggests an action, then the consumer should follow its suggestion?????

Microsoft, Your money, Our Greed. grin

en

Aug 23, 07 - 02:36 pm Comment from: Petersen

I looked for a job once.

Once.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:39 pm Comment from: one of the gang

I'm with jas. Video game programmers are the new rockstars. Makes the girlies wet. I speak from experience.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:42 pm Comment from: NSFY

Bring back Dragon's Lair.

Aug 23, 07 - 02:52 pm Comment from: Thorin

Ha Ha, Dragon's lair. I was totally enamored by that game

(even though I really sucked at it).

Aug 23, 07 - 02:58 pm Comment from: Gnat Nuze

The Redmond, Wash.-based company said owners of the controller should stop plugging it in, but said it is safe to use with battery power.

This Microsoft solution sponsored by Acme Battery Inc - protecting your environment.


gnat:

Any of various small, biting, two-winged flies, such as a punkie or black fly.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=gnat

Nuze:

Kinda like news

wink

Aug 23, 07 - 03:07 pm Comment from: Gandalf

It's not making girlies wet but bringing tears to their eyes in the nicest possible way that is the most rewarding, ask any good musician.

How many ways can you pluck a keyboard?

Aug 23, 07 - 03:11 pm Comment from: BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots

No, you should play games. On your iPhone. On your iPod. On your Mac. At home. In the airport. At boring meetings. On Friday nights. Everywhere. All the time. Nothing is more important than playing games. No, I'm serious. You need to go for broke and just play, because well, everyone knows that's what makes life complete. Get your headset and tell people from India that they suck for busting up your Halo group. Talk in game-speak because that makes you even cooler still. Better yet move back into that basement at your parents so you have more money for MMORPG fees. Play when others are at work so you can get mad skillz. Work is for suckers, you know. Play, play, play.

Aug 23, 07 - 03:22 pm Comment from: Thorin

@BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots= Just made my day, the best ever.

@Gandalf, we all love to please the ladies, and music works well. Cleaning the house works better though grin

Aug 23, 07 - 03:24 pm Comment from: Gandalf

Yes you should play games, with your girlfriend, boyfriend, or boy-girl friend.

But it's not very profitable for the corporations.

Aug 23, 07 - 04:17 pm Comment from: Gandalf

@Thorin

You missed the subtlety, the subtlety that musicians have in their fingers that is.

Do not mess with wizards for they may become ethereal and even more difficult to grasp.

wink

Aug 23, 07 - 04:29 pm Comment from: Thorin

@Gandalf

Hey there's a nasty dragon living in my mountain, wanna go take him out? tongue rolleye

Aug 23, 07 - 05:29 pm Comment from: Gandalf

@ Thorin

No thanks, too much fighting evil going on, I've been buying some stuff (zune-colored) on eBay.

wink

Dragons are cool anyways, just gotta talk to them right. But don't let them drink camels' milk.

Aug 23, 07 - 05:32 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Thorin & Gandalf

You'll need Bard the Bowman. Which brings us back to Bard's Tale...

Aug 23, 07 - 06:06 pm Comment from: Zune Tang

Apple working on iPhone games? That's hilarious. The same people who make the worst machines for games want to put them on their crappy phones? Can't wait to see that. Hey Apple, I remember Pong too.

They don't even have the fantastic standard for multimedia development: DirectX. Stupid Apple.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Aug 23, 07 - 06:29 pm Comment from: Gandalf

@ Zune Tang

Pong, well that's Spectrum days. Manic Miner was a trip, in another lifetime, earth lifetime that is.

Hilarious, keep it up, keep fighting the astroturfing trolls (that's a hint for some folks).

@ ChrissyOne

I remember the days in The Dingles, youthful days, jumping the streams, ******** the grass, playing with *******. And recently I visited the bog, Moseley Bog, with all that a modern bog brings (write-off joy-ridden autos, empty coke cans and MacDonalds half eaten debris, Zunes piled up by the shedload). Bard would have a battle on his hands should he venture down that way now. I, alas, had other deeds to pursue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarehole

MagicWord light - you get the drift

Aug 23, 07 - 07:40 pm Comment from: Gandalf

The evenings draws close and yet another thought enters which will not pass until I have shared it.

Pong, is that not a game ideally suited for the Zune.

(even camels milk drinkers need hold their noses).

grin

MagicWord cut, en Français FIN. . .

Aug 24, 07 - 03:36 am Comment from: Worm in the Apple

At least, Microsoft has been committed to gaming for quite a while. I don't know where this leaves Apple who never gave shit about it, except crappy iPod games ...

Aug 24, 07 - 11:38 am Comment from: EZ Mac

If you want to play a game that will take your life away just get World of Warcraft wink

Aug 24, 07 - 09:59 pm Comment from: willyboy

Sweet!!!! I am Last!

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