Need for Speed SHIFT Now Available on the App Store

Need for Speed SHIFT on the App Store - specifically engineered for iPhone and iPod touch, this aggressive, high RPM game is back to invigorate screens with adrenaline pumping driving simulations, pixel perfect cars and a range of pro circuits from around the world.

2009: The Year of Pocket God over 1.7M Units Sold; Over 10M Pygmies Tortured

With over 1.7M units sold and a pile of awards and accolades in its back pocket, Pocket God is the most popular paid app on the iPhone. Today, Bolt Creative and iPhone users worldwide have declared 2009 as “The Year of Pocket God.”

In time for Christma Elf video game on iPhone and iPod Touch

Its Christmas morning and there's magic in the air, enough to send an elf soaring into the stratosphere.

While Santas away, Irving the Elf like nothing more than leaping skyward, stepping on stars and bouncing on baubles trying to get as high as he can!

Arachnadoodle Live on the App Store

In this, all action, arcade puzzler for iPhone and iPod touch your job is to fire Boris the spider around the screen, connect the pins and make a web. Then sit back and watch as fleet of feisty flies whiz past and get caught in your sticky web of terror. The better the web, the more flies you'll catch. It isnt rocket science, but its a lot of fun!

Bloody battle as Bloodstream Raiders video game launches on iPhone and iPod Touch

Bloodstream Raiders is available on the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Take control of a single white blood cell and travel inside veins and arteries through major organs, including the heart, lungs and liver, attempting to rid the human body of an influenza virus by firing antibodies at waves of deadly virus cells!

iPhone interface arrives for Xbox 360

If you own an Xbox 360 and an iPhone, then you can enjoy both devices at one time with your Xbox Live account. Your Live account allows you to integrate the two devices as well as numerous other functionalities that you can get from the Xbox Live. This app is now available at the Apple app store.

MONOPOLY Ranked No1 Game on iPhone with SCRABBLE at No9 roll on Christmas full list of EA mobile games by Hasbro

MONOPOLY is currently No. 1 in Top Paid Apps on the App Store, followed by SCRABBLE (available in the U.S. and Canada only) ranked at No. 9 in the U.S. In addition to the placement of two applications in the App Store Top 10, six other globally popular Hasbro-licensed board game properties round out the Top 100 downloads including: BOGGLE, TRIVIAL PURSUIT, THE GAME OF LIFE Classic Edition, CONNECT 4, YAHTZEE Adventures and MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition.

Metal Gear Solid, Police Rush!, Frogger, Silent Hill, DDR, Silent Scope on iPhone & iPod Touch for $99

Konami announce that all of their popular iPhone and iPod touch titles, including their latest title Field Prowlers POLICE RUSH!, are available for 99 cents on the App store now through November 30th. To view the full lineup of the titles, please see below:

Spice up your party with iPhone game Spin the Bottle - Spin The Bottle is released in three variations Classic, Sexy and XXX

Do you want to spice up your party? Are you hanging out with your friends, and don’t know what to do?

Try the new Spin The Bottle and your boring meeting will turn into a hot party.

All you have to do is to spin the bottle in your mobile phone.

The Men Who Stare at Goats - movie free iPhone video game launched

Do you have what it takes to be a psychic soldier? Turn your iPhone into a Jedi Warrior training device with this un-bleat-able app. Your goal is to try and fell a goat using only the power of your own mind.

Biker Blast-Off! by Gadget Show host Suzi Perry sells a million for iPhone and iPod Touch

Mediatonic, the social gaming specialist based in London, England, has helped win a challenge transmitted last night on FIVE’s The Gadget Show. Working closely with presenter Suzi Perry, the Mediatonic team designed and produced Biker Blast-Off!, a small, free-to-download iPhone game, as part of a presenter challenge between Suzi and co-host Jason Bradbury. The challenge pitted game against application, and homebrew developers against a professional team.

GUTS iPhone game employs cutting-edge 8-bit game design

Slabovia, the last communist dictatorship in Europe, has announced details of its first state-mandated iPhone title. GUTS employs cutting-edge 8-bit game design principles to reconstruct the miraculous story of a desperate medical mission to save General Schmerdiakov, Slabovia’s cruel yet loveable dictator.

Navy Patrol Coastal Defense video game for iPhone and iPod Touch

ICS Mobile announce that Navy Patrol:Coastal Defense is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Navy Patrol:Coastal Defense for iPhone and iPod touch brings several new layers to the Tower Defense genre by incorporating RPG and RTS elements into a water based environment supported by the company's AWS Fluid Simulation Engine.

Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus iPhone video game - play it here

Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus the game is an iPhone version of the popular co-named PC game developed by JoyBits Ltd.

The gamer has to change into Cassandra and in assistance of Nostradamus' spirit complete the quest in search of the lost ring. In 30 levels Cassandra's Journey fairly mixes hidden-object and card games, image and word puzzles, match 3 mini games with exclusive entertainments: optical illusions, mind reading and card tricks.

How to achive amazing graphics on iPhone 3GS games

The iPhone 3GS, being the fastest iPhone yet, is also a decent platform for handheld games and it shows through more and more developers flocking towards the lucrative App Store by churning out title after title.

Mind-Melting iPhone Puzzler Timeloop Warps onto iPhone and iPod Touch

iPhone developer Connect2Media is celebrating the success of its latest unique IP Timeloop after it rocketed into the App Store top 50 chart today.

From Japan to New Jersey, the game has received consistent critical acclaim from iPhone and general mobile sites based across the world, scooping several reviewer awards and a dedicated mainstream following.

From the same team that created iPhone smash Go! Go! Rescue Squad! Timeloop is a superb combination of devious time-shifting puzzles with superb gameplay and a charming art style. The game follows plucky janitor droid Nik on a quest to rescue a science lab gone haywire and save the trapped scientists and feline test subjects within. Using a handy time-warping device, Nik can work with past versions of himself to overcome 32 stages full of fiendish puzzles.

Timeloop 1.0 key features

- 32 mind increasingly bending puzzles

- Multiple solutions to almost every puzzle mean that there is always more than one way to skin a cat

- Gold, Silver and Bronze award categories

- Rescue stray cats as well as professors



To celebrate Timeloop’s App Store chart success, Connect2Media are extending the launch promotional price of £0.59/€0.79/$0.99.

Free update for iPhone video game Mystic Mine video game now available!

Koonsolo announces a free update for Mystic Mine, an innovative game for Mac, Linux and Windows. In Mystic Mine you guide a goldcar through impossible "Escher" levels. The free update includes following improvements:

• The multiplayer game now tracks the overall scores for all played levels. This means that you can organize a tournament with your friends, and at the end see who won the most games.

• Mystic Mine is now running faster, so slower machines are now better supported.

• The first levels of adventure mode are now even more fun.

For those who already bought Mystic Mine, and want to receive the latest version, just send a mail to koen@koonsolo.com and your download will be reactivated. And for those who don't have the full game yet, play the new demo and have fun!

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Western Wind Farting music game on iPhone and iPod Touch

Putting the Music Back in Musical Fruit

Rock Ridge Games announce the release of Western Wind for iPhone and iPod Touch. Available in the App Store now for just 99 cents, Western Wind is a melody and memory-based game that puts the music back into musical fruit. Hilariously addictive, off-color yet in-tune, Western Wind should be a part of everyone’s App library.

Western Wind is a tale from out of the Wild West that has been overlooked by modern historians. Six cowboys, all members of the musical troupe “Black Bart and The Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds”, set out seeking fame and fortune in the prosperous West. After taking a wrong turn in Albuquerque they are lost, hungry, and are forced to burn their instruments for warmth.

A case of beans is all they have left. That and their unwavering drive to keep the dream of hitting it big on the emerging Frontier music scene alive. Always resourceful, The Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds make music in the only way they can, and Western Wind is born from the ashes of their burned guitars and rusted bean cans.

Western Wind features two main gameplay modes: Musical Fruit and Follow That Fart. Core to the experience is Musical Fruit, which features 12 notes that players can use to create their own songs. Whether it’s an original tune or a campfire favorite, players will be able to craft and save their musical masterpieces. Follow That Fart is a fresh take on the classic game Simon Sez, where players must repeat a pattern of notes that becomes more complex and challenging as players advance.

Additionally, Share a Song mode allows players to play back any of their recorded songs. Your friends will bust a gut laughing as they listen to your fart-filled rendition of Tiny Bubbles.
Make music the Old West way with Western Wind!

To download the app please visit: http://itunes.com/apps/westernwind

UK TV's Gadget Show iPhone Challenge Revealed

Mediatonic, the social gaming specialist, has lifted the curtain on its recent work with FIVE’s The Gadget Show. Working closely with presenter Suzi Perry, Mediatonic have constructed a professional mini-game to go up against a ‘bedroom’ coded application from co-presenter Jason Bradbury.

Designed to highlight the benefits of working on the iPhone platform and the meritocratic hierarchy of the App Store, both applications are set to battle it out for popularity to determine if home-made software can compete with professional projects on the iPhone platform.

Suzi’s game – Biker Blast – developed in co-operation with Mediatonic, harks back to motorcycle stunt games of old, setting players the task of performing ramp jumps over lines of cars with in-game controls making use of the iPhone’s touch screen and accelerometer. A virtual Suzi Perry provides player feedback and scoring information. Jason’s application takes a different track. The Social Beacon is a social networking tool, which allows users to send quick status updates to Facebook and Twitter without the need to type.

Both applications are now available from the App Store and both are free to download. The results of the contest are set to be broadcast in October 2009.

Paul Croft, creative director, Mediatonic comments: “This was a hugely entertaining project to work on. We’ve drawn on our professional skills in designing and creating concise, playable game experiences to produce the best game we could within the parameters and timeframes we had to work with. May the best app win!”

Backbreaker Football Tackle Alley video game for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch

Introduction to New Football Franchise Backbreaker to Hit iTunes App Store Fall 2009

NaturalMotion, the animation technology and game development studio behind the euphoria engine, today announced that Backbreaker Football: Tackle Alley, an exclusive introduction to their revolutionary new football franchise Backbreaker, will be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch this Fall.

Inspired by a mini-game taken from NaturalMotion’s Backbreaker (in development for Xbox 360 PLAYSTATION 3), Backbreaker Football: Tackle Alley on the iPhone is an intense, arcade football experience. Using accelerometer controls and on-screen buttons, the player must sprint, dodge and spin past waves of oncoming defenders, racking up point combos and score multipliers on their way to the endzone. Through Facebook integration, players will be able to see how their high-scores stack up against their friends'.

Backbreaker Football: Tackle Alley takes advantage of morpheme, NaturalMotion’s graphically authorable animation engine. morpheme produces animation of a quality not seen before on the iPhone and iPod Touch providing the on-screen characters with a fluidity of motion rivaling that experienced on home consoles. That quality, combined with high-impact tackles, dynamic third-person cameras, an imposing 3D stadium and animated crowds place the player in a truly immersive environment.

“We are excited to kick off the Backbreaker football experience on the iPhone and are stunned to see what visual fidelity is achievable on this platform,” said Torsten Reil, CEO of NaturalMotion. “Together with our partners Ideaworks3D, we think we’ve come up with something special and can’t wait to get this game into everyone’s hands.”

Backbreaker Football: Tackle Alley is being developed by Ideaworks3D, a world leader in mobile technology, application and game development.

“This has been a great project for our studio, and a chance to push the quality boundaries on the iPhone by combining morpheme and our Airplay game development tools,” said Alex Caccia, CEO of Ideaworks3D. “But above all, the game is fun to play and hard to put down.”

Backbreaker Football: Tackle Alley is to be published by NaturalMotion and will be available to purchase on the iTunes App Store Fall 2009.