During his keynote, id Software found John Carmack revealed a tech demo of something he’s been doing as a “side project” - Rage for the iPhone. A working demo showed the game operating at 60 fps using the Rage Engine (complete with megatextures) on an iPhone 4. Carmack assures viewers that it will also work [...]
Hellemental, Reviewed [iPhone]
To be blunt, Hellemental is a time waster and nothing more. The controls aren’t intuitive, the icons are confusing and the instructions are anything but clear. The game looks polished, with more than acceptable 3D graphics and very fun, sparkly particle effects and a wide, well-realized diversity of creature designs. The sound design is actually [...]
Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone and iPod Touch in March 2010
The legendary fighting series Street Fighter gets touchy feely with the release of Street Fighter IV for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Like its console counter-part, SF4 for iPhone is played from a 2D perspective, with additional 3D camera flourishes. Numerous new special moves have been mapped to a unique 4-button control scheme as well [...]
Apple’s iPad: The Nukoda writers’ views
Last week of course saw the unveiling of Apple’s latest ‘must have’ device: the iPad. The device has caused a division amongst those who have heard about it, with some hugely excited for the device, and others not seeing a reason for its existence. At Nukoda, we couldn’t let such an important event pass without comment, and so included are some views of some of the writers for this website…
Square Enix announces Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone via Facebook
Final Fantasy I and II will premiere on the iPhone and iPod touch, according to Square Enix’s Facebook page today. No other details, including price or a release window were provided in the announcement, but a few screens were posted on the page. The timeless “Fight, Magic, Defend, Item, Run” command menu has been replaced with [...]
Grand Theft Auto hits the App Store
With little fanfare or even a press release, Rockstar’s portable GTA hit the App Store yesterday morning. The now twice ported title sells for $9.99, and from what I can tell from my four or so hours in the game, never looked better. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was a bit of a commercial dud [...]
Apple’s App store sells 3 billion Apps to date
Apple Inc., purveyors of the iPhone and iPod touch announced today that more than three billion apps have been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod Touch in less than 18 months. The announcement comes just in time to try and take the sizzle out of Google’s Nexus One Android phone announcement later today. An important [...]
Timbaland’s Beaterator Makes Its Way To iPhone
The first game to come from Rockstar in the App Store, Beaterator, the Timbaland based PSP title from earlier in the year has arrived on iPhone and iPod Touch.
ESRB launches iPhone App to help parents’ holiday shopping
The Entertainment Software Rating Board today released a new App for the iPhone and iPod touch. Targeted at parents, the App allows users to search the ESRB database for information on games while at the store, theoretically allowing them to make proper decisions about games for the children in their lives. In addition to showing [...]
2XL ATV Offroad, Reviewed [iPhone/iPod Touch]
The price of iPhone apps and games has been a hot topic in the games industry of late, those few ‘expensive’ titles on the service gaining praise, or dismissal for their acceptance of the iTunes model. The latest of these is 2XL ATV Offroad is the latest of these titles, near breaking the £5 barrier [...]

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