Florent Tournade, a French developer who worked on Alone in the Dark and WALL•E for the next-gen consoles, is now working on his first iPhone and iPod Touch game. Kerosen 3D is a combat flight simulator that gives users the opportunity to navigate through space and pick a point on the planet where they want to start their combat flight. The 3D engine of the game renders around one million pollygons per second, it sounds like a lot and it is a lot too. Via WiFi users can compete against each other and it’s possible that Kerosen 3D will be updated with an online multiplayer mode as well.
The latest addition in the App Store is Digital Chocolate’s time managing game Chocolate Shop Frenzy, selling for . Just like in Diner Dash, also available in the App Store, the gamer’s task is to take orders, deliver the food and to make sure that everything is running smooth in the Chocolate Shop. Other similar games like Daycare Nightmare and Sally’s Salon have proven that time management games on the iPhone are very addictive. If you’re not convinced about the game, then you should definitely try out the free Lite version of the game.
EA Mobile has moved into the final stages of production of Sim City, which should release later this month. Kotaku managed to get their hands on an early copy, so head over there to see what the guys thought. Despite a few bugs and minor setbacks from having to use your fingers to place the buildings it seems like Sim City will be a solid, fully functional (not trimmed down from the PC version) launch.
Two days ago Gameloft released a new video of Hero of Sparta, and today they released the game in the App Store. The game is available for iPhone and iPod Touch and uses the touch-screen of both systems to move your hero with the virtual analogue stick and to unleash his power by performing combos on the screen. Use your sword, axe, bow or twin blades to get rid of the enemies that guard the 8 levels of this full 3D game. The game contains mythical creatures like Cerberus, the Cyclops and many other foes. Get Hero of Sparta now for $9.99 in the App Store.
Ngmoco’s latest iPhone and iPod Touch game called Dr. Awesome is now available in the App Store for $1.99. You need to perform microsurgery to isolate and eradicate the mutagens that have infected your friends personalized from your iPhone or iPod Touch contact list. Cut and trap the offending viruses by guiding the micro scalpel on your screen with the accelerometer. Here’s a list of features in the game:
Use your Tilt-guided micro scalpel to perform microsurgery
Isolate 16 types of viruses and bacteria to save your patients
Collect power-ups to help give you an edge in the ER
Save your friends, personalized from your contact list
Enjoy the powerful visual styles from Escalation Studios, i-am-8-bit Productions and Lord Mesa
Yoot Saito, the developer of Seaman and Odama for consoles, has announced that they’re working on Gabo!, a game in which you get to play god. You get to play with Gabo, a Peking Man who influeces his environment to grow. The game will be controlled via the touch-screen and it’s due to come out on the Japanese market next month.
X-Plane is one of the finest games out for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but Laminar Research keeps updating it to make it even more fun than it already is. Version 9.02 of this flight simulator puts more airports in the game, with a little RMI at the bottom of the HUD points. It’ll also feature a map in the location screen. The propellers of your planes will look better and the lateral accelerometer calibration is now vertical as well. Along with some other smaller updates this new version of X-Plane will be launched soon.
Not too long ago Laminar Research launched an update for its iPhone- and iPod Touch-game X-Plane 9 and now they already have a new update with some fixes and improvements. The framerate of the game will be improved by 25%, you’ll be able to calibrate the position of your device, the contrast interface will be higher, the computer will set your power and flaps for your final approach and there are some changes to the interface settings. Definitely check out the X-Plane 9 story to see how they started developing this game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Earlier this month Rocking Pocket Games’ released Blue Skies for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and not too long after that they dropped the game in price to just $5.99. Today they placed a free demo version of blue Skies: Air Force Academy in the App Store. The Lite version of this top-down 2D helicopter shooter contains 7 of the levels from the full game. The coming 2.0 version of the game will contain a few interesting new features, a list can be found after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Laminar Research has published on its forum that X-Plane for the iPhone and iPod Touch will be receiving an update in the coming days. “DUDE.. you have only seen the START.”, that’s what the developer of X-Plane says on the forum and then he sums up a nice list of new features for this $9.99 App Store game:
We are going to have airliners, helicopters, gliders… this is only the BEGINNING.
Also (and there is no way I should mention this) X-Plane AUTOMOTIVE is SCREAMING fun.. I will be ready to release it, hopefully, within 7 days.
When you see me issue a post about how I am morally opposed (or something) to an automotive version of x-plane with ferraris and corvettes and KRAZY tracks, you will know that we are within about 48 hours of release.
