games

Now that the iPhone has bested the cellphone industry in the US, they've set their sights on a new target: handheld gaming devices. Apple CEO Steve Jobs commented in an interview with the Wall Street Journal recently that the popularity of games on the device could make it a more convincing gift option.

It looks like it wasn't enough that US President-Elect Barack Obama was the first candidate to get his own iPhone app. Sure, that may have been enough while he was just a candidate, but now that he's won the election he'll be getting his own interactive iPhone game, too.

Several months ago, we saw Quake 3 running on a pair of iPod touches, and then later ZodTTD got Quake running on the iPhone. Since then, Cameron and Marcia Tofer of Hermitworks, the duo responsible for the Quake 3 port, announced that the project wasn't to be released. Unlike them, however, ZodTTD is now attempting to submit his Quake port over to the iPhone to the App Store for approval.

Those of you hoping to win United Lemur's Puzzllotto competition might be out of luck. The company announced over Twitter that someone may have solved their puzzle game, winning the competition and the cash prize. At the time of the unofficial announcement, the prize was worth $8,000 USD, which, pending third-party verification, will be awarded to championship winner Dave H.

Lemonade Stand, a classic economics computer game from the Apple II days, is currently being remade for the iPhone by Maverick Software's Glenda Adams. She says she's keeping the original gameplay and economics, but decided to ditch the original lo-fi graphics (shown to the side) for something a little more up to date.

To celebrate the release of their first iPhone application, United Lemur, the iPhone development company headed up by former Tapulous man Mike Lee, has announced that the first user to successfully solve their puzzle game Puzzllotto [App Store] for the iPhone and iPod touch will be awarded a cash prize of up to $30,000.

Want to build your own iPhone game, but don't know any code? U.S. startup Gendai Games may have just what you're looking for. They recently released a public alpha version of Game Salad, a drag-and-drop game creator for the Mac. While it seems to be focused on making games for embedding to your blog or sharing on social networks like Facebook, they say it can also make games to be published to the App Store for iPhones.

Kroll, the 3D adventure game from Digital Legend that was demoed at WWDC '08, has finally been released to the App Store. Its debut at the keynote was impressive, with stunning 3D graphics, but word has it that gameplay leaves a little to be desired and it's been getting mixed reviews. Still, if your interested you can check it out in the App Store for $7.99. There's a demo video after the break.

ZodTTD has just released mame4iphone v0.5.0, a MAME arcade emulator for the iPhone available to jailbroken iPhones through Cydia. The emulator is a port of the mame4all emulator from ZodTTD user Franxis. The emulator allows users to play ROMs of some of the most popular classic arcade games from the early days.

inXile Entertainment recently confirmed rumors by announcing that they are porting their popular web game Line Rider to the iPhone and iPod touch some time this month. The game will follow the same format as the massively popular web version at linerider.com.