Last November, when we talked about using the iPad almost exclusively since its debut, we touched on three things that we felt were still missing by the platform. The first was tethering to a computer for backups/updates, which sounds like it will be resolved come the release of iOS 5. The second, APIs, is an [...]
Since 2007′s release of the iPhone, Nintendo has adamantly opposed the device in favor of its own mobile consoles, much as they’ve done with every competitor’s hardware in the past. And Nintendo has a legacy to stand on, with the NES and SNES and even the N64. But things kind of break down after that, [...]
While the Sim City franchise was the flagship for the Sim genre, other Sim games managed to capture an audience as well, offering similar gameplay but in a different setting. One such title was Sim Tower, released in 1994, which resembled Sim City in most aspects, but instead of building a city across a landmass, [...]
When Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore claimed Apple would release a second iPhone model, we considered it just another random claim. After all, people have been saying for years that Apple would release an iPhone variant model, be it smaller than the original, or otherwise watered down. John Gruber weighed in on the claim and considers [...]
We’ve been somewhat critical of the Apple TV as a gaming console, and when we last wrote about the subject, we proferred that the key to Apple’s gaming platform success was already achieved in Apple’s mobile devices: Technologies like AirPlay, or even video-out adapters, may well serve gamers to stream iPhone and iPad gaming to [...]