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Quizarium the multiplayer trivia app is nearly ready for prime-time

12 March 2010, 11:00 am by: David Winograd
Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review Quizarium [free], a multiplayer iPhone/iPod touch trivia game, arrived in the App Store today. I got a chance to look at a pre-release copy and I found some problems with the interface an...

GDC 2010: Fallen Earth comes to the Mac, brings an iPhone app

12 March 2010, 10:00 am by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Macworld, Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store Fallen Earth is a respectable postapocalyptic MMO -- I've never played it (one MMO is enough for me, and the gigantic World of Warcraft is still claiming my time), but it's grown p...

GDC 2010: Hands-on with Faraway

12 March 2010, 5:00 am by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPad Steph Thirion's first iPhone game was Eliss, a touchscreen-based arcade game that had you combining and maneuvering planets around one another, and trying to size-match them up with bl...

More suggestions of multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

11 March 2010, 11:00 am by: Dave Caolo
Filed under: OS, Software, Developer, iPhoneDevelopers have found further evidence of multitasking support for 3rd party iPhone apps in the latest beta (3.2 beta 4) of the iPhone SDK, and suggest that it will become a reality this summer. 9to5 Mac r...

Review: Knights of Charlemagne card game is simply simple, and we like it like that

11 March 2010, 8:00 am by: Sebastian Blanco
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review The clever 2006 card game Knights of Charlemagne has made it to the iPhone and iPod touch as a simple little number placing app [$1.99, iTunes link]. We don't mean simple in that it's easy to beat or unint...

GDC 2010: Canabalt postmortem

11 March 2010, 7:00 am by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Other Events, iPhone, App Store "What kinds of games do you like?" Adam "Atomic" Saltsman asked of his panel audience at the Canabalt postmortem during the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. "Role-playing" wa...

Poynt for iPhone is a mixed bag

11 March 2010, 6:00 am by: Mel Martin
Filed under: Freeware, iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewPoynt has come to the iPhone, after having been a very popular free app on BlackBerry phones. Poynt provides local searches of individuals and businesses. It also shares a database with Open Table,...

GDC 2010: How to develop an app with EA Mobile

11 March 2010, 5:00 am by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store For the first panel of day two here at the 2010 Game Developers Conference's iPhone gaming track, Oliver Miao of Centerscore Studios took the stage to talk about working on Surviving High School for t...

Count The Beats: Inspiration... two apps for the musician on the move

10 March 2010, 3:00 pm by: Matt Tinsley
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, iPhone, App Store, MusicRecently I've been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I'...

GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

10 March 2010, 2:00 pm by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Retail, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was on...

GDC 2010: Interview with Street Fighter IV producer Takeshi Tazuka

10 March 2010, 1:00 pm by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPad We stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here at GDC 2010 last night, and in addition to playing the new game, we also got to talk to producer Takeshi Tazuka. Actually, we got to talk to his tr...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model

10 March 2010, 12:00 pm by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store As popular as Ngmoco and its games are, whenever we seem to post about them, the subject of their business model seems to rise to the top again. While they have emerged as one of the iPhone'...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco previews We Rule and GodFinger

10 March 2010, 10:00 am by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Freeware, Developer, iPhone We stopped by Ngmoco's suite at GDC 2010 on the afternoon of the first day of the show, and got a chance to preview two upcoming titles they're working on testing and releasing soon. Both of the games...

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

10 March 2010, 8:00 am by: Kelly Guimont
Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Hacks, iPhoneWarning: If you are baffled by people who think dismantling technology is fun, and completely fail to understand the excitement of building robots to battle other robots, this post may not be for you....

Don't trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail

10 March 2010, 7:00 am by: Chris Rawson
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, iPad Ever since the iPad's introduction a month and a half ago, the internet has been awash in criticism of the as-yet-unreleased device. "It's just a big iPod touch," many have said. "No Flash, no multitasking, no...

GDC 2010: Street Fighter IV for the iPhone out now

9 March 2010, 11:30 pm by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, App Store Tonight at GDC 2010, I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV ap...

Black Swan brings Google Voice back to the iPhone without the App Store

9 March 2010, 3:00 pm by: TJ Luoma
Filed under: iPhone, App ReviewGoogle Voice on the iPhone has been something of a sore subject for me. If you need a full-recap of the whole sordid iPhone/Google Voice story see this story from December or more of our coverage. I even started a littl...

Slate comes to the iPhone, along with a lot of advertising

9 March 2010, 1:30 pm by: Mel Martin
Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewI've always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It's sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting -- an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news. Now, Slate has come...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate was built

9 March 2010, 1:00 pm by: Mike Schramm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Other Events, Developer, iPhone The 2010 Game Developers Conference kicks off today in San Francisco, and TUAW is in attendance to check out the latest and greatest in iPhone game development. The conference boasts a wh...

Tekken bound for the iPhone

9 March 2010, 12:00 pm by: Megan Lavey
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App StoreNamco is bringing the popular Tekken franchise to the iPhone. It's not confirmed whether it's a port of the original game -- released back in 1994 in arcades, then on the PlayStation -- or the current Tekken 6....

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