Apps for the iPhone
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At the Worldwide Developer Conference there was a presentation of the applications built with the iPhone 2.0 SDK.
The most impressive game for iPhone is Krull by Digital Legends Entertainment.
This action-adventure game uses Opengl to display advanced 3D graphics and touch screen to control.
Sega presents Super Monkey Ball to iPhone - 3D arcade game for Apple’s device.
AP and Loopt use iPhone’s as a location device, thanks to cell tower triangulation.
Enigmo a puzzle game and Cro-Mag rally are 3D games developed by Pangea Software.
Other applcation presented at conference was Auctions for eBay, Cow Music, Major League Baseball stats, an application for accessing AP news, and medical applications.
Age of Conan
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, new fantasy MMORPG, have been shipped in the number of 1 million copies.
It is very good result for game launched on May 20, 2008, a major MMO release since World of Warcraft.
If Funcom gets players to subscribe and pay for playing it will be one of the most profitable games in whole massively multiplayer online industry.
Universe of this game based on stories written by Robert E. Howard, and may be described as a dark and ancient world.
Age of Conan requires a high-end PC, at least 2.4 GHz Processor, 2 GB RAM and fast 512 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader 3.0 support.
Top free MMORPGs
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- Entropia - online RPG with real cash economy.
- Guild Wars - great game that can be bought in stores but is free to play, without monthly fees.
- Sword of the New World - looks like a funy console arcade game.
- Perfect World - fantasy MMORPG, developed by China-based company.
- FlyFF - colorful, cartoonish game.
- 9 Dragons - martial arts MMO set in ancient China
- Dungeon Runner - action RPG that offers exploring dungeons and fighting with monsters.
N-gage games form Konami
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Nokia is going to add games from Konami, a Japan based video games producer, to N-gage platform. First title from Konami to Nokia’s gaming platform will be Metal Gear Solid, an stealth action game.
Next games are expected to be released in th fourth quarter of 2008. Konami has got experience in mobile software devlopnig.
Mobile titles from Tokio based corporation, include Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Silent Hill, Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow, and Frogger Evolution, so this games are candidates for N-Gage releas.
Morover, Nokia gains for N-gage such big names as Vivendi and Electronic Arts.
Shadow of Legend
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Shadow of Legend, known as SOL, is the first cross-platform 2D MMORPG that realize the interaction between PCs and mobile devices like smartphones or PDAs.
Shadow of Legend allows to play from anywhere, where WiFi or 2.5G/2.75G/3G connection is available. If you are going to play mobile you have to be equipped with device powered by Windows Mobile, 200 MHz processor, 15 MB RAM and 1 GB of memory (high speed card or flash memory).
As a mobile MMORPG this game has many advanteges, first of all this game is free to download and play. In a beautiful and rich environment, full of adventures and quests, with big variety of races, professions and classes any user may take part of virtual fantasy world.
Flash games
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Online flash games become more and more popular, top internet websites with flash games have hundreds of thousands visitors every day.
This type of entertainment is popular among people who are going to take a break at work and play for few minutes.
Big advantage is that anybody interesting in playing don’t need to download and install any software, everything is realized by web browser. Next advantage is you don’t need to dig through many of search results to find interesting game, because there are tons of websites offering this type of entertainment. They are very easy to play, controlled by few keys or the mouse.
If you own website, you may put flash game on site like YouTube clip for free or buy license and source code and provide games exclusively. Flash games can attract many visitors to your website.
Quake 3 for iPod Touch
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No one looks on mobile devices as a game system until someone ports a Quake to it.
So there is a Quake for Android platfrom, and latest example is Quake III ported to Apple’s iPod touch. Canadian developer HermitWorks is responsible for modification of this id Software game.
iPod touch has strong CPU - underclocked 620 to 412 MHz ARM (Apple branded processor, probably a Samsung ARM) and 128 MB RAM, so this device has a the potential to be a good portable game system.
iPhone games
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At this moment, the most popular are two game systms - Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, but Apple’s iPhone is going to fight with this duet. Let see what this devices have inside.
Nintendo DS - 67MHz ARM and 33MHz ARM processors, 4 MB RAM, dual 3″ display.
Sony PSP - 333MHz MIPS processor, 166 MHZ GPU (35Million Poly/sec), 32 MB RAM, 4.3″ display.
Apple iPhone - 620 MHz ARM Processor, 412 MHz Power VR GPU, 128 MB RAM, 3.5″ display.
So… iPhone looks the most powerful, but Sony and Nintendo have plenty of games, moreover Nintendo sold more then 50 million units, and Sony sold more then 20 mmillion units.
Apple sold only 4 million units, it is a poor result for mass market game system, so it is senseless to develop costly games for this device.
Android games
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OmniGSoft is going to develop ten 3D mobile games for Android Platform. All games will be designed with 3D game engine - OmniGSoft cross-platform. The goal of OmniGSoft is to create the highest quality Android platform 3D graphics.
Due to Android Developer Challenge OmniGSoft will port ten games - Super-G Stunt, City Stage, Snow Rally Canada, Nine Hole Golf, Volcano Island, Ten Pin Bowling, Chopper Fight, Speed City, Mini-Dogfight, and Mini-Jetfight - to Android platform.
OmniGSoft is a Canadian game developer specialized in 3D games for Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone/iPod, Java ME, and Blackberry handhelds devices. OmniGSoft is a member of Nvidia mobile graphics partnership program.
The most anticipated video games of 2008
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Soul Calibur IV (PS3, Xbox 360)
The fifth installment of Soul series, a Namco’s fighting games. Soul Calibur IV is goig to be released on summer 2008.
GTA IV (PS3, Xbox 360)
Next Grand Theft Auto series game.
Burnout Paradise (PS3, Xbox 360)
Newest installment in the Burnout series, released on January 2008. Big advantage of this game is amazing graphics.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PSP, NDS, N-Gage)
An action, based on Star Wars, LucasArts game. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is expected to be released in Summer 2008.
Resident Evil 5 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Next installment of the Capcom’s Resident Evil survival horror series.
Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
forthcoming game in the popular Metal Gear - popular stealth game.