So you've got your iPhone 3G, time to get gamin' in style
July 18th 2008 21:11
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From: # Keith Stuart
# The Guardian,
# Thursday July 17, 2008
iPhone users spend up to 60% of their phone time on activities other than phone calls - they want to download stuff.
Also, there's a major mobile gaming bugbear that the iPhone addresses and N-Gage never did - the interface. The Apple product boasts motion sensing capabilities and a multitouch screen; it couldn't be more tuned into the zeitgeist if it changed its name to Wii phone and started offering fitness games.
Developers are also getting hassle-free access to the camera and GPS functionalities, which should finally lead to the development of mainstream location-based and augmented reality games.
And then, of course, iPhone is ... well, the iPhone, the latest wrap of indefatigable Apple crack; a semi-religious artifact crafted by industrial design demi-gods. When Steve Jobs says iPhone is going to be a games platform, it bloody well is going to be a games platform. When some suit in Nokia with an unpronounceable Finnish surname says N-Gage might be quite good, frankly who gives a damn?
Anyway, if you have succumbed, check out EA's Scrabble and Tetris conversions or Gameloft's Brain Challenge and Platinum Sudoku, or wait for the much-vaunted physics-based platformer, Rolando (rolandogame.com), which iPhone enthusiasts are calling innovative and groundbreaking, but the rest of us see as just a stylish take on some well-used ideas.
With many thanks to the author of this article. No doubt he has an iPhone and time on his hands. (time on hands comes free with the iPhone)
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