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      Catan is coming to the iPhone

      October 10, 2009 /

      Catan on the iPhone.Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! The popular board game has finally been submitted to Apple in iPhone form and now awaits approval. For those of you who don’t know – and have been sorely missing out – Settlers of Catan is a resource based board game with several victory conditions. The game has a huge following and even has a couple expansions.

      Though there’s no word on pricing, you can almost guarantee I’ll be buying this game. The one big failure? There’s no online system (?!?). That really makes no sense. The game is best enjoyed with friends, so why not give support the iPhone has had for several firmware iterations?

      In the ever-increasing deluge of iPhone games, I’m glad to see titles I’ve waited for aren’t slipping past my radar. It’s not so far-fetched to think they might. After all, even major releases can take up to a week to show up in app searches.

      Mobile Gaming, Previews

      C64 Is Off The App Store Again

      September 8, 2009 /

      FAILJust a day after it was approved, C64 is once again off the app store. The developer foolishly left the feature that got the app rejected in the first place, the BASIC interpreter, in the application, just hidden like Yelp’s “monocle” feature. A few keystrokes and the interpreter was back up and running, and, of course, Apple heard about it.

      So the app is back off the App Store until further notice. Why the C64 developer thought he would get away with it is beyond. Yelp got away with “monocle” because it didn’t allow you to do anything prohibited by the developer ToS. This, on the other hand, is strictly forbidden, whether it’s hidden or not. The developer issued the following statement:

      Unfortunately Apple this night pulled the C64 App from the App Store. We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had “go” from Apple.

      Clearly it wasn’t going to be remotely activated. It was activated by the user. Think this one through next time guys. It’s not that complicated.

      Mobile Gaming, News

      Commodore 64 Emulator App Gets Approved

      September 7, 2009 /

      C64 iPhone app.The latest in Apple’s string of backtracking and approving formerly rejected apps comes to us in the form of the officially licensed Commodore 64 emulator app. I’m sure you’ll remember the app making headlines for being initially rejected because it contained its own executable runtimes for the ROMs of classic C64 games.

      Well Apple has given the app another chance, and its already live in the App Store for just $5. The reason for the approval is that the 3.0 SDK makes allowances for in-app purchases, which probably means there’s now an infrastructure in place that keeps the ROMs and the app in the same location, one that doesn’t require access to any other parts of the phone. Purchase of the app includes Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck, and Jack Attack.

      Mobile Gaming, News

      iPhone Gamers Love New Games, Want Them Less Than $2

      July 12, 2009 /

      iPhone app store spread.The folks at PocketGamer.biz recently took a look at the iPhone gaming situation to come away with some cold, hard data about what people are buying and why. I’ll spare you the full report (really I just don’t want to leech all the credit here) and focus instead on some of the more interesting details.

      For standards, PG took a snapshot of the top 100 applications and then broke down the results by price, price by rank, games by publisher, and source (new IP, console port, music, movie, etc.).

      Pricing was actually different than you might think. While most of the top 100 came in the $.99 category (36 titles), second place went to the $4.99 bracket with 20 titles. But that’s just number of games for each price bracket. Obviously since they are top 100 these are games that are getting downloaded a lot, but how much do the games get played after downloading?

      If you look at price by rank, the top 10 games average just $1.89/download. At 11-20, the price drops to $1.19. Of course there are a load of factors that could contribute to the rankings. Are people really playing these cheap games more or are they just deleting them more often and so being prompted to rate more of these games?

      Perhaps the most useful statistic, at least to industry developers, is the rate of new downloads and the desire for new IP. Of the top 100 games, 40 were released in June or July (this likely includes a few updates). Another 22 were April or May releases. As for IP, 52 of the top 100 are fresh content, designed just for the iPhone.

      If you’re downloading games, where does your allegiance lie? Are you a bargain shopper, only buying apps that are cheap or on sale? Or do you look for the best IPs from hot developers, regardless of price?

      Mobile Gaming

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