Michael Jackson was in a few classic video games, dontchaknow? With the help of an emulator on iPhone, you can get your moonwalk on and blow up some monsters while you’re at it. Bad, Beat It, Smooth Criminal, Billie Jean, and Another Part of Me are all featured in their original MIDI glory. NES v3…
Bplay $0.99 Sale on Now Through June 28th
Received word from Bplay the other day that they’re having a sale. A pretty good one at that. Select BlackBerry games and themes are on offer for only $0.99 cents. Yowza. Bplay always has solid games and themes for the BlackBerry, so it’s certainly worth a look. Notable games going for a buck include Breeders’…
Nintendo DS and PlayStation Emulators Run on iPhone 3GS
Why have outside servers handle your gaming graphics when the iPhone 3GS’s 600 MHz OpenGL-enabled processor can do the job just fine? To prove it, here’s one of two demo videos showing off Pokemon and Final Fantasy VII running hunky-dory on the iPhone 3GS through beta emulators. psx4iphone will cost you $10 to try out…
SNesoid brings SNES games to Android
SNesoid is the Android app that will bring back the memories for many of us. Playing old game systems’ games on a mobile phone is nothing new, but it’s the first time we see the SNES emulator released for the Android platform. It’s readily available in the Android Market, and from what we’ve heard it…
Samsung Omnia Plays Crysis on Video
You know how Opera and other browsers have their remote rendering setup to offload the heavy lifting from the handset? Well, what if that technique was used for something a little less mundane, like gaming? Then you’d get burgeoning startup OTOY, who have managed to make Crysis playable on on a Samsung Omnia with a…
Finger Marathon II Gets Your Fingers-a-Runnin’
You may (or may not) have noticed that I wasn’t around IntoMobile much this past weekend. As we do every year, my lady and I put on our volunteering hats to help run the signage crew at the Manitoba Marathon. The gig involves an all-nighter, driving around town, putting signs up all over the 26.2…
Flick Your Way to Fun: Paper Toss for the iPhone from Backflip Studios
Often times I can’t resist the free app. You know, as long as the concept is intriguing, the graphics look half decent, and reviews are solid… I’ll almost give them a whirl. One of my favorite freebies for the iPhone lately is ‘Paper Toss’ from the folks at Backflip Studios. The object of the game…
iPhone 3GS is fast, just ask the iPhone 3G and Palm Pre
We knew the iPhone 3GS was fast – just a couple minutes with the iPhone 3GS in-hand is enough to prove as much – but now we have a more applicable idea of the iPhone 3GS’s speed. Anandtech ran a series of speed-tests on the iPhone 3GS, comparing it against the iPhone 3G, Palm Pre,…
Chillingo’s Defender Chronicles hits the AppStore
Chillingo is out with a new title in the Apple’s AppStore. It’s Gimka Entertainment’s Defender Chronicles: Legend of the Desert King, an RPG action game. You could think of it as a classic arcade beat-’em-up with RPG elements that includes fantastical heroes and monsters, all packed in a tower defence “kind of game.” Other game…
The Challenge: 30 iPhone Apps in 30 Days!
What do you do when you’re a talented iPhone App Developer that’s a little strapped for cash? Well, you develop 30 apps in 30 days of course! From my point of view I’d rather focus all of my time and attention into developing 1 killer app, but developer Dave (known as BahamutZaero) is trying to…