ZodTTD is a name that will sound familiar to those accustomed to playing emulated games on their handsets. This hacker was among the first to port SNES, Genesis, N64 and Playstation games on the iPhone, also finding time to create a VLC media player version for Apple’s phone. Now, he’s moved on to Android.
The hacker is creating a yet unnamed...
As we informed you previously in this article, Gameloft was getting ready to release a couple of games for the Android platform and now this happened. They unveiled the titles yesterday, but what you might not know is that they’re doing it for the second time, since at first the games had a bunch of issues.
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Boy, do we have a scoop for Android fans! By making a tiny URL modification in this link (we replaced “selected_platform=iphone” with “selected_platform=android”) we’ve found out that Gameloft is prepping no less than 8 games for Android. These titles have already been announced, with 3D games included among them, but at...
Want to play a popular shooter on your Android handset? You can now give Quake III a go on Motorola Droid, by following the guide in the following lines. It was first published by Android Central and you need a handset with Android 1.6 or higher to run the game, in case you’re wondering.
This is the kwaak3 project enabling the game to work on...
Microsoft has got a pair of 3D games running on its fresh Windows Phone 7 platform and they’re not afraid to demo them on the same ASUS prototype phone we’ve been seeing a lot of lately. The titles were built with XNA Game Studio 4.0 and the games we’re re talking about are The Harvest, pictured below and Battle Punks.
The Harvest...
Quake 3 has been finally ported over to the Android platform and it looks pretty good, as you can see in the video demo at the end of the article. This project bears the name of “kwaak3″ and it’s based on Quake 3 ports on the Nokia N900 and the iPhone. The game is running on a Motorola Milestone unit right now.
The FPS makes good...
Get ready to take iPhone gaming to a new level, thanks to the iControlPad game controller accessory. This product has gone into mass production and we know that it’s compatible with jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch units.
We know that two versions of the controller are coming, one complete with an internal battery, doubling the iPhone’s...
If you’re a fan of augmented reality AND remote control helicopters plus other such gizmos, you’ll surely love the Parrot AR.Drone. This is basically a helicopter packing a bunch of cameras, WiFi connectivity and a cool system that allows the user to control it via iPhone or iPod Touch, also including a taste of augmented reality:
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DOOM was already available on Palm Pre and the iPhone, with a bunch of hacking around and emulating to do, but we weren’t completely satisfied with the gaming experience, till now. A couple of folks from WebOS-Internals managed to mess with the code and take advantage of webOS 1.3.5, allowing the game to function, based on hardware acceleration.
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The iPhone is already a very fearsome rival for the PSP and Nintendo DS, considering the love it gets from both gamers and game developers these days. Now, it turns out that Epic Games has ported the Unreal Engine 3 on the handset, the same engine that powers superb titles like BioShock, Gears of War 2 and Mirror’s Edge.
Of course, you shouldn’t...