Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Hardware, Software, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
The Game Developers Conference is on in San Francisco, and game companies are starting to pull out the major announcements on what's coming to the iPhone in the next year. Here's a roundup of all the titles we've heard mentioned already.- EA announced a huge lineup of ports from their already popular games: everything from Command and Conquer: Red Alert to SSX to FIFA, Madden, and NBA are all coming in some form to the iPhone. They're also working on bringing over the Wolfenstein RPG and Spore Creatures (which was the DS port of Spore), as well as a big list of casual board games (Scrabble is only the beginning), and versions of Need for Speed: Undercover, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. And most amazing? All of these are due out before the end of the year. Someone's lighting a fire under iPhone developers at EA.
- id software announced that they're bringing Wolfenstein 3D Classic to the iPhone in an official form -- that one's already been submitted to the store and should be out soon.
Continue reading GDC09: iPhone gaming roundup
TUAWGDC09: iPhone gaming roundup originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
TomTom Joins the Open Invention Network
According to the following press release, TomTom joined the Open Invention Network, the company formed to enable and protect Linux and the associated technology patents.
This move is most likely linked to the on-going dispute between TomTom and Microsoft around patent infregements, Redmond's giants claiming hte Dutch company used some if its technology, while the latest is now claiming the opposite. With all those legal action around software concept-linked patents, it is quite obvious that this is a juicy market for lawyers but not necessarily for companies...
The Little Brother of NVidia GeForce 9400M
According to VR-Zone, NVidia will launch a new version of its popular GeForce 9400M.
This chips will be a cheaper version, with less features:
- Support for the DDR3 only
- 8 PCI Express lines instead of 20 for the GF 9400M, so one can not add a second GPU on the board.
- 4 SATA ports instead of 6.
- 1 analog and 2 digital display interfaces.
This chips will of course have a lower clock speed than the GF 9400M, so it will also drain less energy. We are currently thinking that this chip might already be in some Apple products, such as he Mac mini as it features 2 digital display interfaces (HDMI + DisplayPort) while the G9400M does not offer 2 digital interfaces. So it might have been developed for the Mac mini, and only becomes available for all PC integrators now.
In addition, we would not be surprised that Apple use such chip in future entry-level MacBook or iMac as it is pin compatible with the current GF 9400M while being cheaper and most probably not affecting seriously the video performance of such models.
GDC09: iPhone gaming roundup
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Hardware, Software, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
The Game Developers Conference is on in San Francisco, and game companies are starting to pull out the major announcements on what's coming to the iPhone in the next year. Here's a roundup of all the titles we've heard mentioned already.- EA announced a huge lineup of ports from their already popular games: everything from Command and Conquer: Red Alert to SSX to FIFA, Madden, and NBA are all coming in some form to the iPhone. They're also working on bringing over the Wolfenstein RPG and Spore Creatures (which was the DS port of Spore), as well as a big list of casual board games (Scrabble is only the beginning), and versions of Need for Speed: Undercover, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. And most amazing? All of these are due out before the end of the year. Someone's lighting a fire under iPhone developers at EA.
- id software announced that they're bringing Wolfenstein 3D Classic to the iPhone in an official form -- that one's already been submitted to the store and should be out soon.
Continue reading GDC09: iPhone gaming roundup
TUAWGDC09: iPhone gaming roundup originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
TomTom Joins the Open Invention Network
According to the following press release, TomTom joined the Open Invention Network, the company formed to enable and protect Linux and the associated technology patents.
This move is most likely linked to the on-going dispute between TomTom and Microsoft around patent infregements, Redmond's giants claiming hte Dutch company used some if its technology, while the latest is now claiming the opposite. With all those legal action around software concept-linked patents, it is quite obvious that this is a juicy market for lawyers but not necessarily for companies...
The Little Brother of NVidia GeForce 9400M
According to VR-Zone, NVidia will launch a new version of its popular GeForce 9400M.
This chips will be a cheaper version, with less features:
- Support for the DDR3 only
- 8 PCI Express lines instead of 20 for the GF 9400M, so one can not add a second GPU on the board.
- 4 SATA ports instead of 6.
- 1 analog and 2 digital display interfaces.
This chips will of course have a lower clock speed than the GF 9400M, so it will also drain less energy. We are currently thinking that this chip might already be in some Apple products, such as he Mac mini as it features 2 digital display interfaces (HDMI + DisplayPort) while the G9400M does not offer 2 digital interfaces. So it might have been developed for the Mac mini, and only becomes available for all PC integrators now.
In addition, we would not be surprised that Apple use such chip in future entry-level MacBook or iMac as it is pin compatible with the current GF 9400M while being cheaper and most probably not affecting seriously the video performance of such models.
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