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by Serban Stokker |
14th February 2007 |
While marveling at Apple's presentation of the iPhone from last month, there's no doubt that many of you also thought about how games would play like on the gizmo's touch-screen. And you're not the only ones. Even though Apple hasn't shown any example of games running on the iPhone, and they're still keeping quiet on the matter, other companies are more than willing to break the silence, and gain some early media loving and public awareness.
In a recent story about Apple and casual gaming,
Business Week quotes Mitch Lasky (senior vice-president of EA Mobile, formerly JAMDAT Mobile) as saying that his company is already in talks with Apple about possible iPhone games:
"We have been talking to Apple about games on (the iPhone)," Lasky says. "We see a lot of the technology that we've utilized on the iPod side being incorporated into the iPhone."
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Lasky had been chief executive of JAMDAT Mobile before the takeover. He says EA saw the iPod as an attractive gaming device for a number of reasons. "The requirement for music to cache so you hear a streaming uninterrupted song, that means there's a lot of RAM," he says. "It also has remarkably good graphics."
We sure hope that they'll do more than just port the old iPod games, because the iPhone's touch-screen interface holds a lot of potential. And, if we may be so bold to suggest, it could lend itself to the kind of playful gameplay we're seeing on the Nintendo DS. They could also emulate an on-screen PSP button layout, if they so desire; or simlpy come up with completely new kinds of interfaces. We wouldn't mind either way.
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