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Tapni.Ru posts some screenshots from another upcoming Gameloft game Real Tennis 2009.
The translated bullet point features include:
- 8 players who have performed with the help of a detailed 3D-graphics. - From Paris to New York or Stockholm, play at 7 different stadiums on the 3 surfaces - clay, grass and synthetics - from each of their impression. - Local Server mode Wi-Fi - Compete with friends in real time! - Office, which takes into account all the features of iPhone / iPod touch - Serve, simply turning your iPhone! - 2 intuitive touch regime that will suit everyone: A digital keyboard for maximum accuracy or joystick to control in the arcade style. - Wide range of strikes: candle smesh and beyond. - Career mode, which allows you to tour as a professional player.
The game is reportedly sent to the App Store and should arrive very soon. Tapni.Ru also seems the likely source of the Rise of Lost Empires screenshots that appeared earlier today.
Another next generation iPhone concept which incorporates the new black bezel has posted online.
Unlike the previous mock up this one pictures an iMac like bottom to the device. The black bezel only covers about 5/6ths of the phone and the earpiece is higher and wider just as depicted in the rumored bezel leak.
EA Mobile has announced that the Mass Effect Galaxy game is coming to the iPhone and iPod touch.
The award-winning Mass Effect game universe has now arrived on your iPhone and iPod touch! Tales of human courage and individual human achievement resound through the galaxy. Here is your opportunity to play the story of Jacob Taylor, a biotic-powered super-soldier who stumbles across a plot to terrorize civilization's greatest beacon of hope, the mighty Citadel space station. Can you prevent a heinous attack that threatens to knock humanity off the galactic stage?
Features: - Gripping storyline that enables you, playing super-soldier Jacob Taylor, to prevent galactic chaos! - Stylish art presentation delivers an animated graphic novel experience! - A blend of nuanced story telling with gripping top-down shooter combat! - Experience the back-story behind some of the main characters in the upcoming Mass Effect 2 game (for Xbox 360 and PC).
Tapni.Ru posts some screenshots from another upcoming Gameloft game Real Tennis 2009.
The translated bullet point features include:
- 8 players who have performed with the help of a detailed 3D-graphics.
- From Paris to New York or Stockholm, play at 7 different stadiums on the 3 surfaces - clay, grass and synthetics - from each of their impression.
- Local Server mode Wi-Fi - Compete with friends in real time!
- Office, which takes into account all the features of iPhone / iPod touch
- Serve, simply turning your iPhone!
- 2 intuitive touch regime that will suit everyone: A digital keyboard for maximum accuracy or joystick to control in the arcade style.
- Wide range of strikes: candle smesh and beyond.
- Career mode, which allows you to tour as a professional player.
The game is reportedly sent to the App Store and should arrive very soon. Tapni.Ru also seems the likely source of the Rise of Lost Empires screenshots that appeared earlier today.
A photo depicting the rumored black matte iPhone casing next to the current iPhone casing has been posted online online by MacRumors.
The image of a matte back iPhone has been circulating online for some time. Some have suggested that this casing may be similar to the one Apple uses for the next generation iPhone.
Have a look below...
[Note: This is likely not an actual image of the next iPhone]
BigBoss has released SBSettings 2.99 and announced more features for the SBSettings 3.0 release.
In addition to the new features mentioned here, the following additions will be made:
- You can now have more than 12 toggles. (On the 3.0 OS). When you have > 12 toggles it will let you scroll like categories app or such.
- There is now an option to put the free memory in the statusbar. See:
- You can now select from several options to customize the behaviors of SBSettings:
--Enable or disable the U/I from lock screen
--Enable or disable the U/I during calls (for those of you that kept having the U/I activate on your cheek).
--Enable or disable the date in status bar.
--Enable or disable the memory free in status bar.
--Enable or disable numeric battery, wifi, or GSM (phone strength).
--Revamped the U/I on the more - extras screen.
Internally, I have made the toggles SDK more extensible enabling direct access to system() calls within the toggles. I expect another small flood of new toggles like safari download, samba, or syslog toggles. These tasks were impossibly difficult on 1.x sbsettings and are now trivially simple.
You can download and install SBSettings from the BigBoss Cydia repository.
Google today demonstrated its Latitude location-based service running on the iPhone, according to a report by TechCrunch.
Google Latitude is a service which allows you to see where your friends are and what they are up to then quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call. The service is already available for Android phones; however, Google is waiting for the iPhone 3.0 OS before launching on the iPhone.
Google has been waiting for the 3.0 software is because it’s not actually creating a native iPhone app for Latitude — as all other location-based services on the iPhone are — instead it’s using the Safari web browser to run Latitude. Thanks to HTML 5, Safari will be able to access a user’s location information and Latitude will be able to access that as well (provided the user gives permission). This will put it on par with what Google is doing in its browser for Android.
A web app doesn't seem like the best solution for Google Latitude on the iPhone but we will have to wait and see what happens.
A research note from RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky suggests that Apple may drop the price of the 8GB iPhone to $99(with contract), according to a Barrons report.
In a research note this morning, he notes that the company is widely expected to unveil updated iPhones at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. Expectations are they will keep price points at $199 and $299, with 16 GB and 32 GB models. Abramsky thinks even an evolutionary upgrade will drive a healthy upgrade cycle; he estimates 20% of the 21 million iPhone installed base will upgrade within the first year.
But he also says that the company could leverage its component and manufacturing efficiencies by offering an 8 GB version of the phone at $99, down from $199 currently. He thinks the result could provide a major lift to unit demand, with 5 million additional iPhones in FY 2009, and 22 million in FY 2010.
Gameloft's latest title, New York Nights: Success in the City [App Store] popped up for sale this evening. As a social simulation game, you play the role of your customized character, fresh off a plane in Manhattan with little more than the clothes you're wearing and an entire city in front of you.
New York is split in to six areas: 5th Avenue, Greenwich, Wall Street, Times Square, Chinatown and Central Park. Each section of the city has its own set of NPC's to talk to and different businesses to explore as you make your way to the top of the nightlife scene
The game starts with a fairly detailed tutorial in which you meet your brother at your new apartment, make friends with someone on the street (who oddly enough quickly becomes your new roommate), work your first job as a dancer at the nearby Club Awesome. New York Nights: Success in the City plays similar to The Sims, only instead of focusing around your house, emphasis is placed on people, activities, and relationships. A focus that I'm enjoying as the decorating/building aspect of The Sims never interested me that much.
The graphics are colorful, the adventures I've had so far have been fairly amusing, and the game as a whole seems to have a good sense of humor. Originally existing on mobile phones, New York Nights: Success in the City is a decent port. The touchscreen interface works well, although it would be nice if there were confirmations on conversation choices since there is nothing you can do but face the consequences of talking about "Car accidents" instead of "Club chicks".
As you work your way through the game, you balance a wide variety of stats. For instance, throughout the day you get tired, increasing "Sleep". Drinking coffee to stay up later decreases your "Sleep", but in turn increases your "Crazy" and "Bathroom" statistics.
New York Nights: Success in the City was well recieved in its original mobile phone release, and having enjoyed what I've seen so far in the game, I expect the iPhone port to see the same praise.
The award-winning Mass Effect game universe has now arrived on your iPhone and iPod touch! Tales of human courage and individual human achievement resound through the galaxy. Here is your opportunity to play the story of Jacob Taylor, a biotic-powered super-soldier who stumbles across a plot to terrorize civilization's greatest beacon of hope, the mighty Citadel space station. Can you prevent a heinous attack that threatens to knock humanity off the galactic stage?
Game features listed include:
Gripping storyline that enables you, playing super-soldier Jacob Taylor, to prevent galactic chaos!
Stylish art presentation delivers an animated graphic novel experience!
A blend of nuanced story telling with gripping top-down shooter combat!
Experience the back-story behind some of the main characters in the upcoming Mass Effect 2 game (for Xbox 360 and PC).
Word of the iPhone version was leaked earlier this month. EA will be giving a sneak peek at Mass Effect at E3 next week, and TouchArcade will be there
Don Bluth's classic arcade game Space Ace has just landed in the App Store for a price of $4.99 [link]. The launch is sure to excite fans of the original arcade game which was released back in 1984.
Space Ace was the follow up title to the popular Dragon's Lair laserdisc game which shared the same style of gameplay.
Meanwhile, Big Albie had a better experience with the controls. The game comes with 3 modes of difficulty: Cadet, Captain and Ace. Cadet offers the additional help of flashing the button you need to press while in the other modes you must rely on the environmental clues. This video shows a brief amount of gameplay from the first couple of scenes in both Cadet and Captain modes:
A new report by iLounge suggests that the next generation iPhone will come in six different versions.
The site has been told that there will be two storage capacities each for: 3G, enhanced 3G ("3.5G/3.75G"), and mainland China versions of the phone.
The phones will have the same size and general design of the current model, but with a less scratchable matte plastic body.
They believe that the telecoms in each country will only receive the version which matches their system capabilities so the option between a “slow iPhone” and “fast iPhone” won't be available.
Football (U.S. Soccer) fans should be pleased to hear that mobile developer Exient is bringing their sport gaming expertise to the iPhone with X2 Football 2009. Exient has been responsible for a number of high profile DS titles including FIFA 09, Madden NFL 09, and PSP/PS2 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09.
Exient sent us this gallery of screenshots (embedded below) while Pocket Gamer managed to get some hands on time with the upcoming title.
The most notable thing when you first pick up the game is the controls, which consist of an onscreen analogue joypad for movement and passing, and three buttons: pass, shoot and through ball. Helping you understand what you're doing is an arrow that shows where you're going to pass the ball, or where your player is going to run to.
Responding to the analog nature of the touch screen's controls, Exient has adjusted the game design to accommodate it with player animations to reflect the non-digital controls.
In balancing the cost of licensing, Exient has chosen not to take on that additional cost for this first release. Realistically, they are looking to build up their reputation on the iPhone side before pursing these expensive deals.
The game is awaiting approval and should appear soon. No pricing has been announced.
We've received a number of interesting new video previews for upcoming iPhone games. Many of the videos are new previews for games we've covered before, while a few are from games we've never talked about. All the videos are worth a look, so check them out.
Games We've Discussed
Star Defense - Ngmoco's long anticipated 3D Tower Defense game appears to be getting closer to release. A new hands on video from Ngmoco shows more of the game's controls.
Return to Mysterious Island - Inspired by the Jules Verne novel, this 3d adventure game offers over 15 hours of gameplay. TetraEdge Games and Chillingo have released this new trailer video showing off more of the game and controls.
Blimp - The Flying Adventures - Craneball Studios has released an actual "hands on" gameplay video of their upcoming Blimp game which we previewed in April. The video should address questions and concerns about the control system the game uses.
Circuit Strike One - One we've been keeping an eye on since January, Circuit Strike One also appears to be near release. Chillingo has released a number of new gameplay videos today: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
Monster Pinball - A stylistic pinball game with 6 interconnected tables. The graphics and animations were poorly captured in the previous gameplay video, so the developers released a much higher quality gameplay video recorded off the computer.
Back in March we previewed Virtway's upcoming Graviton, an iPhone gravity game in the vein of classic Thrust. The game has just arrived in the App Store [link], published by Chillingo.
After devastating the largest cities of Earth and extracting all of its natural resources, the Xugg'zak left behind a planet buried in debris.
As the pilot of the Graviton ship, your mission is to salvage the scarce energy spheres that the Xugg'zak have left behind, and take them to a safe place where will be processed to rebuild what's left from the human race.
In Graviton, the player is given tilt-based control of a ship equipped with a magnetic grappling hook. The mission is to pick up a metal orb with the hook and carry it through a series of five different post-apocalyptic environments filled with a variety of obstacles, some of which are interactive (drop the orb into a moving cart, charge the orb to unlock doors, etc).
The game features "2.5D" graphics and a realistic physics model that delivers gravity, inertia, and momentum, adding to the challenge of completing the objective. In-game tutorials explain the action, three levels of difficulty help tune the game to the player's particular skill level, and on-line leaderboards add to the competitive value of the game.
I've played through several of the game's environments and find it to be a worthy take on the Thrust formula, with particularly clever obstacles. My only real complaint with the game is to do with its hovering mechanic. While most gravity games require constant triggering of downward thrust to remain aloft (which can be very challenging in close quarters), Graviton's ship will remain safely pinned in mid-air if the device is held at the proper angle. It's a control mechanic that I find a bit too forgiving for my taste, but isn't reason enough for me to recommend that gravity fans pass on this challenging title.
BigBoss has announced that he will release SBSettings 3.0 soon since most functions will work for those on the 2.x firmware as well.
Below you can find a changelog for the improvements made...
3.0 Changelog - DYLIB: Modified for all the changes required to work on 3.0 (with proper patched jailbreak, not working with public jailbreak on 3.0). - DYLIB: Added status bar date. This will put the date in your statusbar right by your clock. This defaults off and you must enable it in the more app. See screenshot of statusbar with this enabled:
- DYLIB: Massively reworked SSH and EDGE toggles. Solved the low memory freeze ups previously seen when hitting refresh or trying to toggle EDGE or SSH. This was a major issue on current versions of SBSettings. It seems totally solved. - DYLIB: Massively reworked WiFi toggle since it didn’t work on 3.0. It toggles very quickly now. - DYLIB: Massively reworked phone toggle (airplane) since it didnt work on 3.0. Phone toggle is also instant. - DYLIB: Added a single tap status bar to close the SBSettings window in 3.0 only. This is because home button brings up the search and there was some interference (enough that I felt annoyed). So you can swipe to open the window, tap to close. - Both: Added ability to move toggle order around. - More app: Added mobile substrate extensions manager. You can now troubleshoot a poorly performing device by disabling and enabling various installed mobile substrate extensions. (Requires respring after toggling). - More app: Added numeric wifi, numeric GMS (phone) to extras menu. (Note: the 3.0 version of numeric battery looks different. Remember this is just enabled by SBSettings. It’s a feature of springboard). - More app: Added statusbar date toggle button in extras menu to enable or disable statusbar date. - Revved version to 3.0 since this version works with iPhone OS 3.0. It should work with 2.0-3.0. - Reworked how root requiring toggles work. As such, we can now system out to processes as root. This enables Safari download and other toggles! (Expect them soon).
These are instructions on how to downgrade your baseband to 2.28 for iPhone 3Gs with the 5.8 bootloader using Fuzzyband. This will allow you to unlock your iPhone 3G using YellowSn0w.
Fuzzyband is the preferred application for downgrading your baseband since it does version checking, downgrades all versions of baseband from 2.30.03 to 4.26.08 (3.0 beta5), and it reports the current bootloader version on screen.
Step One Press to launch Cydia from your SpringBoard.
Step Two Press to select the Sections tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step Three Press to select System from the list of sections
Step Four Press to select 3G Fuzzyband Downgrader from the list of packages
Step Five Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.
Step Six Press the Confirm button at the top right of the screen to begin installation.
Step Seven Once installation has completed successfully press the large Return to Cydia button.
Step Eight Press the Home button to return to your SpringBoard. Notice there is a new application icon titled Fuzzyband. Press to launch the application.
Step Nine Immediately upon launching the application you will be shown a message stating that Fuzzyband is querying your modem.
Once it completes you will be displayed your Bootloader Version, your Baseband Version and your iPhone OS version.
If you have a bootloader version higher then 5.08 you will not be able to downgrade your baseband and a Not Supported message will be displayed.
If you have the 5.08 bootloader you will be able to downgrade from baseband 2.30 or higher. Press the Downgrade button to begin downgrading your baseband.
Step Ten Once the downgrade has completed successfully you will be displayed a Done! message saying, "I Haz Downgrade!" and you will be on the 2.28 baseband.
