Gaming

Fullpower has amazed me again with another addicting game called MotionX Dice.

This Dice game is by far the coolest game I’ve seen, and it’s got amazing tech inside which takes advantage of the iPhone’s sensors like no other app.

”MotionX-Poker is a breakout success with both customers and critics,” said Arthur Kinsolving, director of technology for Fullpower. “Users love MotionX-Poker. There have been numerous requests to use MotionX dice to play games including Yahtzee, Craps, Liar’s Dice, Backgammon as well as many multi-user dice games. To thank the iPhone community for the success of MotionX, Fullpower is making MotionX-Dice absolutely free for the first 90 days.”

If you haven’t tried it out already, I recommend that you do. You won’t stop playing! MotionX-Dice is immediately available as a free download from the Apple App Store at http://www.itunes.com/appstore/

I haven’t downloaded to many games for iPhone simply because I don’t usually play games on phones. However, over the weekend, I had the chance to play with a game I thought I would never like.

I’m not a poker player, so when I downloaded the app, I was a little confused, but within 5 minutes I became a poker pro. MotionX Poker is a five-card poker game played by rolling five dice. You play against the “dealer” and have three rolls to make the best hand. So how exactly do you roll?

The brains behind MotionX were thoughtful enough to incorporate the accelerometer into the game so all you have to do is give your iPhone (or iPod Touch) a shake. The beautifully rendered dice shake across the screen, even adding vibration to the whole gaming experience.

When the dice come to rest, you drag the ones you wish to keep in your hand to the squares at the bottom of the screen. When you win a hand, your point score is increased by the amount of your bet, with bonuses… more...

I am not much of a gamer, but it is still cool to think that my iPhone will play games beautifully if I ever decide I do want to play a game or two.

Unity Technologies has announced that its multiplatform 3D game development tool, called Unity, will soon be able to create titles that run on the iPhone.

Unity says: “The Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates visually rich, engaging 3D game play, whether it’s on a traditional desktop, or on the Web at major gaming sites like shockwave.com, or now on the world’s leading mobile device - the iPhone. […] With support of the iPhone platform, the Unity engine becomes platform agnostic and significantly expands the reach and capabilities of the tool. As a fully supported deployment platform, developers can now use Unity to drive development of the best games to iPhone’s massive mobile market and beyond.”

I look forward to what is to come and being able to play some amazing looking games on my iPhone may change my mind. To read more, taike a look here. more...

Robota Softwarehouse has released a pretty nifty Chess game for the iPhone. Although the developers admit, it has some limitations, it is well worth the download if you are a chess player. I consider myself a pretty decent chess player and I have only beat the computer once out of 20 or so games. You can download it for free here.

First it was the Nintendo (NES) emulator that got everyone excited about some old skool gaming on the iPhone. Then we got the Game Boy Advance emulator a few months ago. Now we have a PlayStation emulator so you can rock out some Tekken, Gran Turismo, and Crash Bandicoot on your iPhone.

You, of course will need to track down some PlayStation ROMs to get your game on. According to Mac-a-Doodle, this first release is a bit clunky, much like the first releases of the other emulators. Still, it would be cool to kick some Hiehachi butt on my iPhone.

You can download it here or through installer.app.

Not all games have been optimized for the iPhone equally, but I found some that are perfect for your iPhone:

501 Darts is a two-player strategy game. The goal is to roll down your points from 400 to zero by lobbing darts where it counts--in the highest point zones possible. It is pretty fun. Check it out here.

iFreecell changes every day. Each day, tiles of three designs are shuffled into a 64-square grid. Your job is to remove the tiles by clicking the designs. Click here to try it out.

Golf Driving Range is a fun golf games that frustrates me to no end, but you may find it rather enjoyable. Try it out here.

Ther are plenty more games out there, but I thought I’d give you a few I have recently come across. Enjoy! Don’t get too addicted. 

It’s a game of logic and it can be as additive as it is frustrating. It is the iPhone version of the popular Rush Hour puzzle game called Block2Lock.

Move rectangles up or down, left or right and try to work the blue one off the board. Apparently there are 200 levels to this brain teaser. Play it here.

I remember the days when I was back in elementary school. When it was time for recess, my friends and I would play board games instead of playing baseball or soccer. One game that I enjoyed very much was Battleship. I remember pwning anyone who challenged me.

It has been a while since I have hit a battleship and hopefully I still have the skills of my youth, because it looks like I will need them. A new web app for the iPhone has surfaced which allows for peer to peer battleship goodness. Playing against people over the internet is simple, and exciting with the built in chat feature. The one thing that I have found to be true about online board games is that the people who play them are very skilled. If players did not enjoy playing the normal game, why would they play it on their phone? But do not be intimidated, because there is also an option which allows for a friend to play by use of a password. So go ahead, join the NAVY.

To play, hit the link:
Battleship

I haven’t played a game on my iPhone in a while, so stumbling into a game called Frenzic interested me.

The iPhone web-version of Frenzic has been published at http://frenzic.com/iphone/. Frenzic is described as a fast paced puzzle-based game that was originally developed for Mac OS X.

Now you can play on your iPhone too!

Here is how you play:

As colored pie pieces appear in the center, place them in the outer circles to earn points. Pieces can only be placed into circles that have a corresponding open slot. Once all six slots of a circle are filled, the completed pie is cleared from the board. If a piece is not placed before the timer expires, a life is lost

Use the fewest colors possible when forming pies for maximum points as each piece of the same color is worth more than the one before it. Pies completed with a single color also earn an extra life. The speed of the timer gradually accelerates, increasing difficulty. Play ends when all of your lives are lost.

Remember the games that you enjoyed on your iPod not so long ago; Breakout, Music Quiz, and that parachute game? Now I can say that one of them has been reincarnated as a web application for use on the iPhone. Smash, as it is called, is similar to Breakout in style and game play. Same concept, same rules: use your bar at the bottom to hit and clear blocks to advance to the next level. I have only found a few problems. It is not as responsive as I would like it to be and the bar cannot be moved as smoothly, rather it moves into predetermined slots. If you simply must play a game similar to Breakout, Smash is always an option.

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