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We Farm smells like more than just Farmville for the iPhone
We Rule , the free social networking game, held me -- and therefore Fidgit -- in its thrall for at least a week . Not that there was anything special about it beyond it being a) really charming, b) really convenient since it's for the iPhone, and c) just clever enough with its... »
See pyramids crash into battleships in Civilization V
On one hand, the box art for Civilization V is awfully busy. The same city has built the Sydney Opera House, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and the Pyramids? But on the other hand, it's awfully awesome »
Facebook booted out of fantasy game Highborn
From the latest patch notes for Highborn , a fantasy strategy game for the iPhone that required connecting with someone on Facebook to play a multiplayer game: Removed Facebook-based multiplayer (NOTE: all existing Facebook multiplayer games will be deleted in this update) This patch adapts the game to Open Feint, the current de... »
Farmville breaks out of Facebook, roams freely
First Farmville found its way into your local convenience store. Developer Zynga engineered a tie-in with 7-11. »
100 Rogues for the iPhone is fixed at last
For a while, 100 Rogues seemed to have been so named because you couldn't name your character. So as you played through this fiendishly difficult little dungeon crawler, the high score list was entirely populated by characters named "Another Rogue". »
Highborn shows how not to make an iPhone game
Highborn is a new fantasy strategy game for the iPhone. It's similar to the fantastic Uniwar , which anyone not averse to the word "strategy" should be playing »
9 out of 10 gamers not buying Natal or Playstation Move
So it's a bit premature to be polling gamers to ask if they're going to get Natal or the Playstation Move controllers (pictured!), but that never stopped any market research group. Gamasutra reports one such poll. »
You’ll never guess Left 4 Dead developer’s latest game
Turtle Rock Studios, the developers who made Left 4 Dead for Valve, have released their next game. It's for the iPhone. It's called Leap Sheep! (exclamation point theirs) »
Uh-oh. New iPhone will mean more motion-controlled games.
One of the features of the iPhone 4, which will be released later this month, is a gyroscope. When the feature was revealed, Apple's Steve Jobs demonstrated it by playing a Jenga mock-up that let him look at the game from different sides by spinning in place. And just when I thought we'd... »
Safari 5. Yeah, You Should Trust the Web To These Guys
Apple has now fixed this, but their original advertising page for Safari 5 didn't display correctly in any browser. Including Apple's. Here's how it looked originally in Safari 4 (Windows) »