GDC 2010: We've Arrived, iPhone Games a Major Focus
We've arrived in San Francisco for the 2010 Game Developer's Conference. This year's event includes a two day iPhone summit which should attract many iPhone developers from around the world. GDC also includes the usual other game related activities, booths and announcements. The IGF mobile finalists will be on demo with a final award ceremony later this week. One interesting pre...

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'The Hero' Lands in App Store
Chillingo's The Hero launched into the App Store on Monday. We briefly previewed the game back in February. The game is beautifully illustrated and animated super hero game. You control your hero by using a virtual joystick in the bottom right corner, and can speed up by mashing the on-screen button on the bottom right corner. The controls work well enough, although making precise movement...

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Upcoming ‘Super Feed Me’ – Eat and Swing your way to Safety
Nitrome, a flash game developer, is planning to release one of their popular flash games called Feed Me, on the iPhone. The new version will be called ‘Super Feed Me’ since it will have updated graphics and not be a direct port of the original. Details about the new game are extremely limited. At the moment all we have is a blog post on Nitrome’s website and a trailer you saw above. If you...

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Coming Soon: ‘The Red Star’ – Both a Top Down Shooter and Beat ‘Em Up Game
XS Games, a New York based publisher, announced Friday that they plan to release an iPhone and PSPgo port of “The Red Star” early this spring. The Red Star was a popular shooter/action game for the Playstation 2 that was based off the graphic novel of the same name. The game was a blend of top down shooting and side scrolling beat ’em levels. It also had some RPG elements, with characters be...

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Best iPhone Games February 2010
Our February game ratings are in place now, and here are the top of the heap. Our monthly "best of" round-up summarizes the top rated games that we looked at in the previous month. Each game reviewed receives a 1-5 star rating relative to the other games from that month. Generally, a 3 or higher is considered a "good" rating. Our final scores are not the product of any traditio...

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'Mole – Quest for the Terracore Gem' Sparkles
Do you have what it takes to help Mark the mole locate the elusive Terracore gem?  That's the question, really, in Roo Games' recent release Mole - Quest for the Terracore Gem! [App Store]. Mole is a game that, on the surface resembles classic Dig Dug, but is really a deeper game (sorry) that's much more about scoring up in order to better equip your character than simple arcade a...

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Coming Soon: ‘ZombieSmash!’ – A Zombie Castle Defender
When you look at the lineup of iPhone games in the App Store you will notice a few genres that seem a little crowded. One of these is castle defense type games, so I was kind of surprised to see a developer working on one to join the ranks of the many other castle defenders such as the highly detailed 2D Knights Onrush [99¢] and Gameloft's 3D Castle Frenzy [99¢]. Gamedoctors, an independent...

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Coming Soon: 'Ice Hockey Nations 2010' – The First Full Hockey Game on the iPhone
With the NHL playoffs quickly approaching and after an amazing gold medal game at this year’s Winter Olympics a lot of people (and not just Canadians) are excited about all things hockey. I am one of those people, so when I found out that a new hockey game was coming out of the iPhone I just had to share it with you all. Ice Hockey Nations 2010 is the first full hockey game to come to the iPhon...