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Gameloft showed first native iPhone game at GDC 2008?

Categories: Developer, Gaming, iPhone, Rumors
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:47 AM

Gameloft showed first native iPhone game at GDC 2008?

I’m not sure whether this really counts, but during Gameloft boss Michel Guillemot’s keynote GDC Mobile, Apple’s handset was featured in several of his slides.

Now, the image above may just be a work of some Gameloft-hired Photoshop master, but we want to believe it’s the real deal. The user interface seems right (i.e. so iPhone-ish) and considering the fact that Gameloft already has a number of iPod titles, I don’t see a reason why they wouldn’t work on the iPhone games as well. To bring everything on the next level, we could argue (speculate) they are one of the few companies that got the sneak peak of the upcoming SDK. It’s only logical Apple wants high quality games for its shiny handset and signing Gameloft on board is certainly good thing for both consumers and Cupertino boys.

Anyway, while we’re waiting for the SDK-day it’s good to know that Gameloft will (let’s hope, nothing’s confirmed yet) be on board starting from day one. The ball’s on Apple’s court. Please Mr Jobs, release the necessary tools this week so that developers can start doing “their thing” ASAP. :)

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

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  • CelebGurl

    It’s fake… and the easy way to tell is the 9:42am iphone image is the same picture from the Apple website … thus it was doctored… the only company that I know of that has signed with Apple for the SDK is Jirbo.com