Chaos Rings: Square-Enix's new RPG for the iPhone

Five pairs of warriors are forced to participate in a tournament where they will fight to the death. You'll play through multiple scenarios focused on each pair, and only by clearing each scenario will you be able to see the full story. The battle system lets you attack enemies on your own, or in "pair" mode. In pair, you'll cause greater damage, but you'll also make both warriors more susceptible to damage. There is no release date, yet.

Every iPhone 4G rumor in one simple image

Epic shows Unreal Engine 3 running on the iPhone/iPod Touch!

Mirror's Edge runs to the App Store in January

Review: World Series of Poker - Hold'em Legend

World Series of Poker - Hold'em Legend
System: iPhone/iPod Touch
Date: October 31, 2009
MSRP: $4.99

There's not really a lot to do to a poker game. So what has Glu Games done with their version of Texas Hold'em? Check out my full review here!

Review: Super K.O Boxing 2

Super K.O Boxing 2
System: iPhone/iPod Touch
MSRP: $4.99
Release Date: October 1, 2009

Super K.O Boxing 2 is like Punchout, except with more flair. But, has Glu Games created an interesting boxing game that isn't just shiny? Check out the full review here.

I am T-Pain Auto-Tune iPhone app is sick!

This app only costs $3 and from the videos below, it looks like it is well worth it.

Resident Evil 4 iPhone gameplay video

Interesting Japanese iPhone 3GS commercial

Doom Resurrection for the iPhone trailer

WWDC 09 Coverage!

NEW 15-inch MacBook Pro

- 7 hours of battery life
- Non-replaceable lithium polymer battery
- SD slot
- You can get up to 3.06 GHz Dual Core 6MB Level 2 Cache
- Up to 8GB of memory
- 500GB hard drive. Or 256GB SSD
- $1699 for the introductory 15-inch MacBook Pro
- Shipping today

13-inch MacBook Pro

- The 13-inch also has the same built-in battery (non-removable). And the new display.
- SD Card slot too
- Up to 8GB
- Also a 500GB hard drive or 256GB SSD
- FireWire 800
- $1199

MacBook Air

- $1499 for base Air.
- $1799 with a 256GB SSD. $700 cheaper than before.
All meetsthe stringent EP Gold standard

OS X Snow Leopard

- 45% faster
- Recover 6GB of HDD Space after install
- 3D Rendering for the dock
- Crash resistance
- 64-bit JavaScript performance up by 50%
- New UI for Quicktime
- Many new features
- Safari is claimed to be the fastest browser out!
- Quicktime has been built from the ground up

- SL can run all major Mac Apps at 64bit
- No threads, it Grand Central Dispatch
- Wants to use this power for everything, OpenCl
- Exchange support is now built into Mail, iCal and Address book
- Free exchange support for Mac users only
- SL available on all Intel Macs, past and present
- Snow Leopard will only cost $29, $49 Family Pack
- Available in September

iPhone OS 3.0

- 100+ new features
- Cut, copy and paste for all apps… finally…
- MMS gets announced… finally… well, sometime this summer…
- Spotlight. You can search calendars, music, notes, etc…
- Rent and Buy movies over 3G
o Supports iTunes U
- Tethering
o This works on Macs or PCs, over USB or Bluetooth
- Safari
- The Old OS ran the bench in 126 seconds. JavaScript is now almost 3 times faster
- Support for HTTP streaming audio and video. Bitrate and data quality adjust to connection speed
- Better language support, 30+
- Find My iPhone feature = service available to Mobile Me customers
- Through mobileme, any web browser will show you, on a map, where your phone is.
o Features a remote wipe, too
- Peer to peer support

Games/Apps

- Asphalt 5 - You race 27 licensed cars and 4 motorcycles “around the world”


o You can play your iTunes music in-game, too
- Airstrip Technologies - They allow healthcare providers to monitor information on mobiles


- ScrollMotion – does stuff with digital books
o There are 50 major magazines, 170 daily newspapers and 1 million books on the app store
- TomTom - This is the first navigational turn-by-turn on the app store. They’re bringing both applications and accessory integration to the iPhone
- ngmoco:) - Star Defense is a tower defense game
o out now @ $5.99


- PASCO – Spark - people can connect PASCO sensors to computers to record/input data
o The Spark app should drop this Fall
- zipcar – is the leading car borrowing service – you can find a list of available cars nearby for rent
o comes with a car horn and unlock function, too
- Line 6 and Planet Waves – Chord Master - the app connects the iPhone to an amp and to a guitar and adds a load of amp effects
o Demonstration was messed up, so not much info
o You can change your string’s tuning through the app and not in the physical world!

June 17th - iPhone OS 3.0 will be free for all iPhone customers. $9.95 for iPod touch.

iPhone 3GS (Speed)

- Launching messaging is 2.1x faster, loading SimCity is 2.4x faster, viewing Excel 3.6x faster, loading NY Times 2.9x faster
- SunSpider JavaScript graph - iPhone 2.0 126 seconds. 3G 43 seconds. 3GS 15 seconds
- The 3GS now supports OpenGL|ES. It also supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA!
- The new 3GS includes a 3MP autofocus camera.
o Everything about the camera has been improved
- We can now capture video!
o 30FPS VGA with auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure
o Can share video, too
- Voice Control – calling people, play album, etc…
o Ask “What’s Playing Now?”


- Built-in digital compass
- Built-in support for Nike+
- Hardware Encryption
- Better battery life
o The 3G got 6hrs on Wi-Fi, 7 on Video, 24 on Audio, 10 on 2G talk and 5 on 3G talk. 3gS gets 9 on Wi-Fi, 10 on video, 30 on audio, 12 on 2g talk and 5 on 3g talk
- No front camera :(


iPhone 3GS: $199 16GB version, $299 32GB version June, 19th (available in 80+ countries by the 26th)

iPhone 3G (8GB) will stay in the market for $99, starting today!

hExistentialism ver. 1.1 - Review

hExistentialism ver. 1.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch App/Game)

Since this is an iPhone app, it is hard to individually justify the scores for individual categories, so I’m going to discuss everything beforehand and given my scores at the end of the review.

This will be my first iPhone app review, too! It is hExistentialism (hEx), a very unique puzzle game. Developed by Ayumusoft, hEx offers a very unique and addictive take on the puzzle genre. It’s similar to bejeweled, yet, it is completely different. First, I would like to say that you should definitely check out the included tutorial before playing the actual game. You are given a layout with 21 tiles. Each tile has a background color, design, shading (all, half or no color) and position (up or down).


The object is to score points and clear out the tiles by matching either a tile with a single design to a tile with a similar, double design, to a tile with a similar triple design; or you could match up three tiles with the same design or same color or position… etc.; there’s actually quite a few ways to match up the various tiles. The tutorial went over 8+ different ways to match up the tiles. As you clear out the tiles, you’ll gain points and you can add random tiles into the newly created blank spaces to help further drive up your score. The tiles don’t have to be touching one another either. You just touch the tile with your finger and continue on.


In the beginning this game can be really frustrating, but after awhile you’ll find that you can’t put it down. You’ll absolutely have to use logic and think ahead to do well at hEx. The graphics are very smooth and the game loads very quickly. Really, my only complaint is that there is no music or sound FX in the game. I think either a smooth techno track or maybe an orchestral score could help liven the game up a bit.


Graphics: 18/20

Sound: N/A (since nothing was present)

Story: N/A (since nothing was present)

Gameplay: 18/20

Replayability: 20/20

Final Conclusion: If you’re looking for a challenging puzzle game for your iPhone/iPod Touch, then you should definitely check out hExistentialism. At only, $2.99 you should get more than your monies worth!

Final Score: 54/60 = 93/100