Apple working on iPhone games?
Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 02:55 PM EDT"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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MacDailyNews Note: A collection of games for Apple's iPhone can be found here: http://macmost.com/iphonegames/

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