iPhone owners will soon have more to look forward to than their standard, day-to-day walking around like they’re better than everyone else. Because psx4all, a PlayStation emulator for the iPhone, will be entering beta testing any day now.

read it here kotaku

Not all games have been optimized for the iPhone equally. In fact, I found quite a few clunkers that seemed to exist only to take your cash, advertise dubious services, or bombard you with cut-rate graphics. Shudder. These five games, added just this month, test your strategy and timing while offering above-average graphics.

read it here download

It may not be planning a 2008 follow up to the Bonk franchise, but Hudson Entertainment CEO John Greiner says in a recent interview that the company is definitely planning on creating games for Apple’s iPhone.

read it here kotaku.com.au

Physics was one of the few subjects in college we didn’t fail (with English, Math, Philosophy, Psychology and Philosophy rounding out the list of ones we did), so we take exceptional interest in this iPhysics game.

read it here (plus video) gizmodo

Every once in a while, iPod owners get word of a new game release for their devices. But some iPod owners are still being denied the ability to play games on their iPods. I’m speaking, of course, about the iPod touch and iPhone, neither of which has the ability to play current iPod games.

read it here arstechnica

In a small bit of programming wizardry that’s sure to make some of Apple’s offerings more interesting, the ScummVM engine has been ported over to both the iPhone and iPod touch. Best known as the engine that ran some of LucasArts’ best old-school adventure games, ScummVM can now be run in teeny-weeny eyestrain-o-vision for those lucky enough to possess the necessary hardware.

read it here insidemacgames

For those of you with hacked Mobile OSX units, your choice of emulators is no longer limited to the NES variety. You may have noticed gpSPhone.app in Installer recently, but it has nothing to do with GPS or calling.

It is actually a Game Boy Advance emulator, and it’s been available for a short time now.

read it here mac.blorge

Coolgorilla has [Edited] unveiled their latest iPhone game, “SMASH” which someone told us is a little like an old arcade classic called “Breakout”.

Using your skill and judgment, control your bat and ball to clear all the blocks and reach the next level. Providing you with hours of finger tapping fun we think this is one of the best iPhone games yet. But then we would say that because we made it.

If you fancy smashing your blocks off using either your iPhone or iPod touch click here or visit coolgorilla

German publisher Ojom has launched its first iPhone game, a conversion of existing mobile puzzler Maya: Temple of Secrets.

The new game is called Maya Deluxe and like all current iPhone games is played through the Safari browser, and is free. It’s a jungle-themed puzzle title that has you flipping and twisting triangles in order to find a mysterious Mayan temple.

read it here pocketgamer.co.uk

Id Software co-founder John Carmack says that Apple doesn’t support game development for the iPhone.

Carmack has some experience developing games for mobile platforms. The company, long-known for landmark games like “Doom” and “Quake,” created “Doom RPG” for mobile handsets, along with Orcs & Elves.

read it here pcworld

Gregory Ray, a lead organizer of LivingArcana.com announced today that he has hired the Brazilian programmer, Gutemberg Ribeiro, of “Conceptus” an open source game engine, to port his engine over to Apple’s iPhone platform. The port of the game engine will remain open source and will be available under LGPL license to allow true 3D game development on the iPhone.

read it here prweb

A group of iPhone hackers has just released version 0.0.5 of gpSPhone. gpSPhone is a GameBoy Advanced emulator for iPhone. As with all first releases, it’s still a bit on the iffy side. Although “many games are playable”, sound output is pretty awful and the GUI and instructions are being worked on. If you feel like giving this a try, here are a few things you really need to know:

read it here tuaw

I recently got an iTouch to dev on. I have my toolchain up and going and am working on a few projects for this very powerful handheld.
iPhone software can be used on the iTouch and vise versa. Not only does this iTouch handheld support a really nice hi-res touchscreen, but also OpenGLES video hardware acceleration, but also a powerful 533MHz ARM11 CPU based on the SAMSUNG S3C6400 SoC!

read it here zodttd

Dr Pepper today released Matchcaps, the first-ever “advergame” designed specifically for Apple’s Safari Web browser on the iPhone. “There’s always more to Dr Pepper.

Consumers want enhanced access to fun and games on their iPhones, and Dr Pepper will be the very first to deliver it to them,” said Andrew Springate, vice president of Dr Pepper marketing.

read it here macnn

Knibble.com, the largest aggregator of online casual games, today launched Knibble iPhone, a unique site offering the most free casual games specifically tailored for the iPhone.

Currently the iPhone offers no pre-loaded games and there are limited games accessible through third party application sites. With the use of Knibble iPhone , users can now play their favorite casual games, including Soduko and more directly from their iPhone with no downloads required. Knibble iPhone will continue to aggregate its continually expanding set of casual games for the iPhone. 

check it out iphone.knibble

The iPhone community welcomes Freeverse Sudoku for the iPhone. It is a very popular game in my part of the world.

It looks nice too and it is probably easy to play with the touchscreen.
Robin.

check it out Freeverse Sudoku iPhone Version

1. Battle Fleet rogerkenny
2. iTrain, your NYC subway buddy rogerkenny

I tried Battle Fleet and I really like it.

give your opinion and credits to Roger!

Raise a cheer, Google coder extraordinaire “kaisersoze” has a little gaming treat in store for us all, MAME—retro, we know, but we love old school gaming and so should you. Hot on the heels of games like Doom and an NES emulator, the Google Code “sdl-mame-project” will let iPhone gamers revisit all of their favorites from decades ago.

read it here engadget

During a speech at his company’s QuakeCon 2007 event, John Carmack, famed lead programmer of genre-defining shoot ‘em ups Doom and Quake, revealed that he has people ‘looking at’ Apple’s iPhone.

read it here pocketpicks.co.uk

Lights Off is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game made even better with iPhone’s touch screen, created by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts.

The objective is to switch all of the lights out. Tapping a light toggles it, along with the four adjacent lights. Once you switch all of the lights out, you’ll advance to the next level!


check it out here deliciousmonster.org

Apple is set to use its iPhone take on Nintendo in the video games sector, according to the latest from the industry’s rumour mill.

Games have been available on the iPhone since its hugely hyped launch last month.

However, a report in the New York Post today suggests that Apple has its sights firmly set on becoming a significant player in the market for “casual games” exploited by Nintendo’s phenomenally successful Wii and DS devices.

read it here business.timesonline.co.uk

The guys at Download Squad seem to have uncovered some serious evidence that games are coming to the iPhone. When checking the localisation strings of iTunes to check on whether iTunes Video Store for the UK could be an option, they discovered a few lines that give us hope games are not too far away for the iPhone.

read it here iphonematters

Thanks to the efforts of Deron Dantzler Nintendo’s classic Duck Hunt game has made its way to the iPhone. Coded in JavaScript, the game recreates the arcade action of the original title on Apple’s new phone.


read it here insidemacgames

A native NES emulator for the iPhone, currently using the InfoNES core. Video of the emulator in action can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=LVh429Dp7r0

My first version can be downloaded from code.google
NerveGas has a fast version (with a busted palette) at iphone.natetrue (His source will be rolled into SVN soon)

Presently there is no sound, and the emulator is a little slow (most likely due to the way I’m drawing onto the screen). And the control is a bit iffy (using an image of an actual controller, while cute, sucks).


check it out here code.google

They have created a collection of games including Solitaire, Sudoku, Word Search, Video Poker and Collapsing Blocks. And they will add more games as well.
check them out here with your iPhone browser;

macmost.com/iphonegames