The iPhone continues to impress in terms of gaming possibility. Raging Thunder isn’t actually done yet on the iPhone (obviously—judging by this video there are more glitches on this thing than a Matrix full of black cats), but once it gets rolling, the award-winning game, put together by Polarbit, looks like a pretty sweet racing experience.

The accelerometer actually serves as a nice wheel (with a little help from the Wii wheel), and the graphics aren’t too shabby, either.

read it here tuaw.com

Lab Rat Maze is a fun little game where you guard a mouse in a series of mazes to get to a cheese. Sounds simple? The problem is that you only see 9 titles o screen from a huge maze.

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Freeverse’s SoundStudio3 is part of the current MacUpdate Bundle that I purchased last week. (It is an awesome deal- especially if you are a recent “switcher”.) I spent a few minute today seeing what it could do with the recording of last night’s “trial run” for our upcoming JustAnotheriPhoneChat.

It is quite impressive in its ability to remove background noise and pregnant pauses.

read it here justanotheriphoneblog.com

Assuming you’ve “jail-broken” your device, which is a process I gave step-by-step instructions for about a week ago (click here if you missed it, and disregard the part where I say that I wouldn’t need an NES emulator on my device, I was smoking crack) follow these steps:

read it here vulturesonacarousel.com

Lexitron is a brilliant new word-making game for the iPhone, that’s a lot like Text Twist.  I’ve always been a big fan of Text Twist, and I am thoroughly enjoying Lexitron since installing it earlier tonight - in fact, I’ve been playing it most of the night while watching less-than-mesmerizing TV shows.

Lexitron uses pretty much the same game concept as Text Twist - with the idea being to make as many words as possible with the 6 letters you’re given within the allowed time - and needing to get at least one six-letter word in order to advance to the next level.

read it here justanotheriphoneblog.com

Who can wait for the iPhone firmware 2.0 to get some native action. Jailbreak your phone now and get all the apps you wanted, games included.

The popular turn-based strategy game Dope Wars is hitting iPhone, big time.






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Whilst other sites may be going crazy over crummy Rubik’s Cube alarm clocks, we’ve found an even better, and geekier version of the ‘70s game. If you see a person stand up on the train and start smashing their iPhone up against the carriage wall, I’ll bet you a fiver it’s because they’re playing the latest Rubik’s Cube game designed specially for Apple’s newest handheld device.

read it here techdigest.tv

More news on the developers working on a version of Quake 3 for the iPhone and iPod touch - they have many more games in the pipeline.

HermitWorks Entertainment has been confirmed as the development team behind the unofficial Quake 3 port.

read it here macworld.co.uk

Wow, people are now speechless. Quake 3 can be played on Apple’s iPhone as well as the iPod Touch. The proof: a Youtube video. Here we you can see someone playing the multiplayer classic in their hand on the iPod touch. The surprise: controlling the shooters is helped through an accelerometer.

read it here (plus video) idealo.co.uk

Super Monkey Ball will soon roll onto the Apple iPhone, Sega announced today. The popular multipplayer party game will get its very own iPhone software demo in the months ahead.

Super Monkey Ball was first displayed running on an iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) at Apple’s iPhone SDK event on March 6.

read it here dailygame.net

And Resident Evil, Pro Evolution Soccer and Spawn: The Eternal. Well, maybe not that last one.

Yes, someone’s cooked up a PlayStation emulator for the iPhone. Coder ZodTTD to be specific, who according to Gamer Cool is also working on SNES and GBA emulators for Apple’s handset.

read it here pocketgamer.co.uk

San Francisco based software development house specializing in games development tools, Unity Technologies announced plans to support the iPhone with their Unity engine. Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates creation of games for the desktop, web, and now the iPhone.

read it here iphoneworld.ca

The buzz over Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone as a potential gaming platform has yet to subside. Ever since the company unveiled it’s SDK in early March, showing off a couple of stellar prototype games in the process, developers have rushed to the platform.

read it here businessweek.com

Gamerworld.ca is pleased to start showcasing decent, free, and most importantly, fun, iPhone (or even playable on your PC/Mac) webapps. Additionally, if any readers have any that they’d like to share (or anything free for that matter, free stuff rocks!) - just post a comment, or submit an email.

read it here gamerworld.ca

France-based mobile game developer Int13 started porting their Crazy Kart 2 game over to the iPhone.

As far as we know, users should expect 320×320 pixels playing area, on-screen virtual steering wheel, 3 vehicle classes (karts, motorbikes, hovercrafts), 6 characters with different vehicles, downloadable content (new vehicles and tracks), and WiFi online multiplayer mode with match making and up to four simultaneous players!

read it here intomobile.com

Handheld gaming has never really worked on non-gaming portables, but this footage showcasing Spore running on an iPhone is enough to give even the most staunch pessimist a bit of faith in the project.

While EA has yet to finalize a release date for the game, they claim to still be committed to a release that would coincide with Spore’s launch on the PC.

read it here wired.com

HONG KONG, March 10, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE)—Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB:ALIF) http://www.artificial-life.com, a leading provider of award-winning mobile games and a full-service mobile application provider, today announced the upcoming release of several new and specially designed games for the iPhone(r) and iPod Touch(r) platforms.

read it here primenewswire.com

Gameloft said it will develop more than 15 game titles for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone in 2008.

A New York-based mobile-gaming developer said it intends to develop mobile game titles built on Apple’s iPhone software-development kit released Thursday.

read it here money.cnn.com

EA’s Travis Boatman certainly caught our attention this morning when he gave a brief demo of an apparently complete version of Spore running on an iPhone.

Boatman’s show and tell took place during Apple’s presentation about the iPhone’s SDK. Boatman said it took EA two days to get CocoaTouch running, after which they could “import the whole game.”

read it here wired.com

This is the iPhone version of my basketball game optimized for the iPhone touch screen.






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A Youtube video of an upcoming puzzle game for the iPhone demonstrates how developers could use the unique capabilities of the iPhone as part of the gaming experience.

Trism is a puzzle game, requiring the player to align the the triangles together in three or more consecutive triangles of the same color.

read it here (plus video) macrumors.com

We’ve tested the NES Emulator for the iPhone. It installs easily and works with all the games we have tried so far. Now, how good it is? The Good • It’s a great start. Not perfect, that’s for sure, but I am not surprised because this is just a first hacked version. • Emulator and games install just fine.

read it here gizmodo.com.au

Tom Hubina, President and CEO of Amplified Games, spoke during the second day of GDC, giving a presentation titled “iPhone and Beyond: A New Hope for Mobile Gaming.” As the head of a new company that is focusing on fatfreegames.com, a community oriented gaming site for the iPhone and other mobile devices, he was well set up to talk about the future of game content on the iPhone.

read it here businessweek.com

First there was the pocket guitar app that turned your iPhone into a guitar, now the iAno iPhone app that turns your cellphone into a piano. It won’t be long before iPhone users will be able to meet up in their mother’s basements and play an actual gig. Check out the video after the jump..

read it here slipperybrick.com

Play this slots game originally developed by Kevin Andersson for the OS X dashboard widget now ported over to an iPhone webapp.




read it here appsafari.com