Atomicon, in association with the Iconfactory and DS Media Labs, has released the original soundtrack for the hit iPhone game “Ramp Champ”, representing a new source of music for gamers, and a new source of revenue for musicians and composers. As a digital-only release, and available through the iTunes music store, the album fits neatly within the iTunes ecosystem, enabling game and music fans to easily purchase the soundtrack directly though the game. “We’re very excited about the possibility of accessing music fans from right inside the game. The ability to have in-game purchasing, or even just a link directly to the iTunes store, which downloads straight to the user’s music library, all within the same device, is really pretty cool,” says David Weiner, executive producer and composer at Atomicon, which released the album.

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Back in late January we posted a story about Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi demonstrating the iPhone version of his creation at an Apple store in Tokyo. This week, the fruits of his labor will be hitting the App store with a number of enhanced features designed specifically for the iPhone.

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Driver, originally released in 1999 for the Playstation, has been ported to the iPhone by the folks at Gameloft. In Driver, you play an undercover cop trying to infiltrate the criminal underground. Ironically, the majority of the game is spent engaging in all sorts of illegal activities.

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In case you haven’t heard already, Final Fantasy I and II are heading for the iPhone. Originally released in Japan in 1987 and 1988, respectively, for the NES, it took a while for the now legendary RPGs to go America, but they did (on various platforms). And now Square Enix is planning special versions for the iPhone/iPod touch, both in Japanese and English.

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There’s a new iPhone game available from the makers of Tap Tap Revenge and it’s got that boom, boom, boom.

In Riddim Ribbon featuring The Black Eyed Peas, you direct a spinning ball along a weaving ribbon to the tune of the band’s music including eight remixes of their hits I Gotta Feeling, Boom Boom Pow and Meet Me Halfway.

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When the going gets tough in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, cheat. After all, raising hell in the game — out now for the iPhone — is more fun when you’ve got unlimited ammo, full armor and every weapon. And while many modern games have abandoned cheats or turned them into unlockable perks, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the iPhone continues the series’ tradition of letting you plug codes into the game for a bounty of forbidden items.

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Apple’s finicky about emulators in the App Store, but most of the candidates have been unofficial, and dubiously legal. Sega’s Ultimate Genesis, though, is official, and looks like a full virtual console for your iPhone.

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LOS ANGELES, BERLIN and HONG KONG, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-Asia/—Artificial Life, Inc., (OTC BB: ALIF), (http://www.artificial-life.com ), today revealed its current iPhone title sales, download numbers and key ranking statistics.

The Company announced that as of December 31st, 2009, it has produced and released 24 games for the iPhone and iPod touch. So far, the top title was downloaded for close to 2.1 million times, the second most for over 1.5 million times and the third, which was launched in early December, 2009, achieved over 1 million downloads in just one month. The average number of downloads per game was about 0.28 million. Paid iPhone games were sold at between USD 0.99 to USD 4.99 with an average price per game of USD 2.14.

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A new trailer for Chillingo’s upcoming dual-stick shooter Guerrilla Bob was released today. We’ve already posted about the game in the past, but this new trailer reveals a new gameplay detail which may not be too surprising…

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“A Gladiator does not fear death. He embraces it.”

New York / Los Angeles / Berlin / Hong Kong, January 18, 2010 - Artificial Life, Inc., (OTC BB: ALIF ), (http://www.artificial-life.com

) and Starz Digital Media, today announced the launch of the official mobile game for the Starz Entertainment TV series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand”, which premieres on Jan. 22, 2010. The Artificial Life game, for the iPhone and iPod touch platform, will retail at USD 4.99 on the Apple App Store. This is the second iPhone game collaboration between Artificial Life and Starz Media following PANDORUM, the official movie mobile game first released in September 2009.

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EA announced Thursday that your Sims are going on vacation. That’s right, The Sims 3 World Adventures is coming to the iPhone. Though no release date or price have been set, the game is expected to hit the App Store soon.

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ALIFE and Starz Media are presenting Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the official iPhone game for the upcoming TV series. It’s now live on the App Store.

Lawless is cast as Lucretia, who along with her husband Batiatus (John Hannah), own the slave Spartacus and the Ludus (a gladiator camp) where the former soldier learns the ways of the arena fighter. The couple has fallen on hard times financially and has bought Spartacus hoping his fighting prowess will help them regain their status in the brutal world of gladiatorial contests. Among her many roles, Lawless is best known for portraying “Xena: Warrior Princess” in the long-running global hit series, and has appeared in Syfy’s critically acclaimed “Battlestar Galactica.”

Much to our surprise, Assassin’s Creed II Discovery [App Store] popped up for sale on the App Store this evening, following a mysterious development cycle leaving everyone in the dark regarding the game’s progress following the initial announcement at an Apple keynote in September of last year.

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What’s up ya’ll, I have some news for you today coming from Com2Us and Homerun Battle 3D for the Android App Store and will offer cross platform iPhone vs Android online multi-player. It’s always a good thing when you can play a game online with a friend that doesn’t have the same platform that your using, but still get to play online with your friend(s) no matter what gaming platform you choose to play on.

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Gameloft announced this morning that it has sold 10 million paid app downloads for iPhone and iPod touch since the App Store’s launch in July 2008. the company also announced that sales for the 2009 holiday season were pretty brisk, driven by N.O.V.A-Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance and James Cameron’s Avatar.

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Chillingo is about to release a great new title called Guerrilla Bob. Bogdan from Angry Mob Studios has done a terrific job talking about the game. The game is almost ready and will be published in coming weeks, its going through the polishing stage now.

Make sure you check this one out!

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Big news out of Japan on the first day of the new year: Hironobu Sakaguchi, famed creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, is working on an iPhone game.

Offering best wishes for the new year on the Mistwalker company blog, Sakaguchi nonchalantly states that he’s in the midst of developing a game for iPhone and iPod touch.

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If you’re looking for some extra motivation to take photos this year, how about turning it into a game? Noticings is a clever location-based photo game built around the popular photo-sharing site Flickr. Noticings has a lot in common with another well-known location-based game, Foursquare. The difference is that you score points in Noticings by taking a photo of something interesting at a location, instead of just checking in there.

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For a brief period last night, iPhone owners without jailbroken phones had access to a fully-functional Nintendo emulator. I’m kicking myself for not spotting 9 to 5 Mac’s story sooner, but it looks like the app got pulled very shortly, maybe a couple hours, after the news broke.

The app was called Nescaline, and its creator is Jonathan Zdziarski, who wrote iPhone Forensics. The $7 app included several homebrew games, but also allowed users to download more games by pointing the app to the URLs of ROM files.

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Daytona Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 18, 2009—PosiMotion is pleased to announce the Helix Gaming Grip accessory for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Helix will be making its first debut at CES 2010. Helix is a revolutionary gaming grip that vastly improves accelerometer-based gameplay. Both extremely light and portable, Helix offers a sleek aesthetic and ergonomic design for enhanced playing comfort and control.

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