iPhone garners attention as a potential gaming platform

by moose

Funny how the iPhone SDK event was mostly about “serious” business stuff, but when you look over on the side of gaming sites and blogs, they get all excited by the potential for GAMES.

If, like me, you follow closely the videogames news, you can’t miss the whole buzz generated by the iPhone SDK event. And that’s from a community where the word “Mac” is usually paired with “LOL” and where “Apple” means “iPod”.

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Here’s a quick round of gaming-related iPhone reactions:

Mobile Gaming: Gameloft Has iPhone Fever, 15 Titles Sprinting For 2008 Release

Could the iPhone be the Portable Wii? - OFB.biz: Open for Business

IPhone: Freeverse Talks iPhone Games

Call Me Fishmeal.: Video Game Ideas: iPhone SDK edition

iPhone SDK Event: Games, Enterprise and Free Money*

Seriously: Apple Has Democratized Platform-Specific Game Design

John Carmack: id Has Plans For iPhone Gaming

Breaking: EA Confirms iPhone Spore, Other Games Coming

Apple: SEGA’s First iPhone SDK Title - Super Monkey Ball

Ea: EA’s First iPhone SDK Title - Spore

Spore: coming to an iPhone near you

Cet été on roule les cheveux au vent ! | frenchiPhone

EDITOR’S VIEW: A Great New Games Machine : Next Generation - Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News - Home of Edge Online

Carmack id’s iPhone - News at GameSpot

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One Response to “iPhone garners attention as a potential gaming platform”

  1. HardMac’s Blog » Blog Archive » Unity 3D Game Engine Ported to iPhone Says:

    [...] are taking the iPhone seriously, at least for casual gaming. If you remember, I posted a while ago about the iPhone as a portable gaming platform, and it seems it really is going that way. Let’s just hope we’ll get better stuff than [...]

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