Oh Kojima, how you tease us so. Turns out, that cryptic teaser was indeed for a new Metal Gear title, but not on the platform many were thinking of. Konami announced today that the series will make its debut on the iPod Touch and iPhone next year in the aptly titled Metal Gear Solid Touch.
Is Sony already hard at work on a successor to the PSP? According to a recent report from tech site EETimes, Sony has inked a deal with electronics Imagination Technologies to use PowerVR tech in the tentatively named PSP2. The second-generation handheld will reportedly use Imagination’s yet to be officially announced SGX55x graphics processing core. Note that a recent announcement […]
If you are doubtful of the iPhone’s viability as a gaming platform, think again pal. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, SEGA boss Simon Jeffery revealed that sales of its debut iPhone title Super Monkey Ball have totaled 300,000 in a span of twenty days. That’s a substantial business. It gives iPhone a justifiable claim to being a viable gaming […]
At its Worldwide Developers Conference today, Apple announced that the first full-fledged games for iPhone will be released alongside the launch of iPhone App Store this July. SEGA’s Super Monkey Ball will be one of the initial launch titles, featuring a whopping 110 stages spanning five worlds. Pricing is set at $9.99. Other titles shown at the conference include Enigmo, […]
Following the launch of Apple’s iPhone SDK, high-profile game developer and co-founder of id Software John Carmack wrote in a forum post on Slashdot that his company is very interested in developing for the iPhone platform and has already applied to the developer program. We (Id) have put in our application like everyone else, so I don’t have any inside […]
During a meeting held at Apple’s Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, Steve Jobs announced availability of the long-awaited iPhone SDK beta. The SDK itself is free and includes the Xcode IDE, Instruments, iPhone simulator, frameworks and samples, compilers, Shark analysis tool, and more. Developers who wish to test their code on the iPhone and distribute commercial applications will need to […]
From the same developer who brought Game Boy Advance emulation to the iPhone, above is a video clip showing off ZodTTD’s SNES4iPhone. As the name impiles, this is a fully-functional SNES emulator for the iPhone. Currently in its beta stages, ZodTTD promises that performance of the emulator will increase in the future. A release should be ready for public consumption […]
Homebrew developer ZodTTD has unveiled his next project: a port of PSOne emulator PSX4ALL to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Provided that beta testing goes well, the author says we can look forward to memory card support in the initial release, along with full sound emulation. A dynarec is also in the works, to get emulation up to a playable […]