iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video)
Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there’s no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don’t offer the best gaming ergonomics. A modding project gone horribly right, however, might just fix that right up for all of us. Shane Wighton set out to build a robot to try and beat his favorite iPhone game, replete with a webcam and an Arduino setup, but in the process of doing so he “just realized that [he'd] made a mechanism to play tilt based phone games with a joystick.” Yes indeedy, one of the most awesome DIY gaming accessories was built by fluke as much as design. See it revolutionizing mobile gaming just after the break.
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Sprint TV brodcasting 30 college bowl games, including entire BCS
Quick: can you name 30 college football bowl games? Well, if you keep your face glued to your Sprint phone's screen for the next couple weeks, you'll be able to, thanks largely to the partnership Sprint inked with ESPN earlier this ear to bring ESPN Mobile TV to its devices. You'll be able to get to the games on your phone through either Sprint TV or the dedicated Sprint Football Live app, which are available on "most" models in Sprint's lineup and cost you nothing as long as you're signed up for unlimited data
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: being-televised, bowls, dedicated, espnmobiletv, football-live, games, inked, models, partnership, sprint, sprint tv, the-partnership, weeks
Infinity Blade takes a slice out of US iTunes store
New Zealanders have been enjoying Epic Games' visual stunner for a few hours now, as per usual, but the past has caught up with the present, so to speak.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-iphone, blade, drop-the-gun, games, infinity-blade, infinityblade, present, zealanders
PlayStation Phone ‘Zeus Z1′ caught on video again, this time you can actually see it (update)
Wow guys, we just spotted a new video of the PlayStation Phone , codenamed Zeus Z1, and this time we get a long, loving look at the entire device -- a refreshing contrast to last time's blurry tease . In addition to appreciating just how fat this phone is, and just how real it is, you can clearly see a "PlayStation" icon, which should hopefully put to rest any doubts that this phone will actually play PlayStation games. Check out a close-up of the icon after the break.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: actually-see, breakingnews, caught-on-video, contrast, doubts, entry, games, gingerbread, hopefully-put, playstation phone, psp phone, pspphone, sony playstation phone, zeus
id’s Carmack talks Rage HD, iPad’s power, and future iOS games
Rage HD for iOS is a seriously gorgeous game -- well worth the $2 , if you ask us.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: commander, game, games, interview, nintendowii, psp, tweaks, wizard
Rage HD review (iPhone)
The iOS App Store might already have its fair share of addictive and compelling games on offer, but when John Carmack comes calling with his latest megatextured shoot-em-up, you've got to sit up and pay attention . Rage HD: Mutant Bash TV isn't so much a full-fledged game in its own right as it is a teaser for the forthcoming Rage FPS for the PC, and yet even in its pretty limited running time, it managed to woo and thrill us with its visceral gameplay and arresting visuals. It's easily the best-looking game we've yet seen on a mobile device and provides a fine demonstration of just how far Apple's hardware -- on the iPhone 4, iPad, and fourth-gen iPod touch -- can be pushed when some appropriately adroit hands are at the graphical controls
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appreview, carmack, Demonstration, engadget, games, iphone, john carmack, limited-running, mobile, mutant, rage hd, rage mobile, rail shooter, running
Hasbro’s $30 My3D goggle accessory brings 3D to iPhone, iPod touch
Truth be told, it's exactly what the world needed. More 3D gimmickry ... on the iPhone and iPod touch, no less
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accessory, apple, browse-the-app, dreamworks, games, iphone, ipodtouch, result, touch, viewmaster
Sony Ericsson Z-System: the PlayStation Phone’s gaming platform?
A bumper crop of circumstantial evidence surrounding the Android-based PlayStation Phone is starting to come together today -- when it rains, it pours, as they say -- and one particularly interesting thread suggests that the ecosystem surrounding the device might be called "Z-System." An astute tipster notes that the term appears in the upper left of one of our shots, which maps to a domain -- z-system.com, naturally -- that's owned by Sony Ericsson. Turns out the company also holds trademarks for Z-System in the US and Benelux trademark offices (among others, presumably) that were filed (and approved) this year, and the filing category includes "software for interacting or playing with electronic or video games," not hardware, so that strongly suggests we're looking at a platform here. We suppose it's possible that this specific device will be called Z-System, but we're going to float the theory that its actually underlying gaming platform that'll bear that name -- possibly a premium game store and set of software libraries that together will earn a device the Z-System badge.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: circumstantial, ecosystem, filing-category, games, gaming, phone, playstationphone, rumor, sony, theory, video
RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers’ woes, says ‘we’re so there’
There's no question that the BlackBerry App World hasn't been quite the runaway success RIM hoped it would be, but the company is far from ready to throw in the towel, and it's now promising some new measures to woo new developers and make the lives of current ones a bit easier. Some of those initiatives have already been rolled out -- like new payment options -- while others including a free analytics service will become available to developers in the coming weeks and months. As RIM's head of application development, Alan Brenner, explains to The Wall Street Journal , RIM has been working for the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer friendly, and he now says that "we're so there." They may not be quite as close as they think, however, as the WSJ also spoke to a number of developers who used words like "horrible" to describe the current state of things, while leading mobile game developer PopCap Games even went so far as to say that "RIM today is not really on our radar." RIM promises to soothe BlackBerry app developers' woes, says 'we're so there' originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:12:00 EST
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: application, blackberryappworld, brenner, current, games, journal, make-the-lives, result, rim, state, street
Electronic Arts ready to embrace Android, but wishes it had an App Store
Thought EA had no love for Android or Windows Phone 7 ? Not quite -- it's just the existing market opportunities that the company doesn't seem to enjoy.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app-stores, business, deployment, deutche-bank, electronic-arts, engadget, games, market, mobile, mobile gaming, mysterious, operating, technology, wishes-it-had