Gamertell

FROM APPLETELL - Hard core sim players will be put off by its simplicity, while hard core action gamers will grow bored with all the sailing and dancing. But for all of us in the middle, Pirates is a fantastic blend of genres, requiring just enough strategy and skill to keep it challenging while providing just enough adventure to keep the game moving… MORE »

FROM APPLETELL - With the release of The Movies: Stunts and Effects, your films can now be even cooler. Well, provided you feel that stunts and effects are cool to begin with. The romantic comedy types may not need this, but those who share my belief that every single movie ever made could’ve been enhanced with a prolonged sword fighting skeleton scene (especially all those Jennifer Lopez movies that weren’t called The Cell) will find plenty to enjoy here… MORE »

I’m not sure what is going on, but according to Forbes reporter Brian Caulfield, that Apple products may kill the Nintendo DS with applications that may turn cellular phones into a portable gaming system.

Caulfield wrote:

“Unlike Nintendo, which has created a gaming console with a motion-sensitive controller and a touch-sensitive handheld gaming system, Apple has crammed both capabilities into its iPhone and iPod Touch… The ability to pour fresh software into the iPhone, wirelessly, at the touch of a button already has game developers interested. ... The worst sign: Sophisticated games such as Electronic Arts’ ambitious new god-game, Spore, are already slated to be released for the iPhone at the same time it goes on sale for PCs, Macs and the Nintendo DS. ... Looks like the handheld gaming business, so long dominated by Nintendo, could be about to undergo a little evolution too.“

The iPhone could never replace a good old fashion handheld gaming system like the Nintendo DS…

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FROM APPLETELL - Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software announced two games for the iPhone at the WWDC keynote today. Already favorites on the Mac, Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally will both be available for $9.99 each.
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Apple has finally decided to release an iPhone software development kit (SDK), allowing companies to create applications for the phone. The beta version of the SDK is already in developer’s hands and the full version is expected to be released June 2008.

After Apple made the SDK’s announcement at a press conference last week (March 6, 2008), Apple’s VP for iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, demonstrated a space game (Touch Fighter) developed in only two weeks (“and only 10,000 lines of code”), promising touch controls and tilt-sensitive steering.

Perhaps an effort to help the expensive hardware more attractive to a larger audience, game companies have already been…

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Prepare yourself Macaddicts, Electronic Arts Inc. is finally showing you a bit of proper videogame respect.

The ginormous game maker is releasing its first ever batch of EA-published games available for the Mac: Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars. Games cost $29.95-$39.95.

Mac users can either order the OS X (ver. 10.4) compatible games now from Apple.com or wait until they hit store shelves either August 21 (for Need for Speed and Harry Potter) or August 28, 2007 (Battlefield and C&C). I know, you can actually hold an EA mac game in your hands, hug it and squeeze it and call it George if you really want to.

Future EA-produced games for the Mac will include…

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