Saturday, May 09, 2009 – 12:37 PM EDT

“Apple announced recently that iPhone and iPod users had downloaded an impressive one billion programs from the company’s online App Store in a mere nine months. Meanwhile, 15 of the 20 most popular paid downloads since the service opened have been games,” Seth Schiesel reports for The New York Times.

“These two facts are not unrelated. Apple hasn’t been this relevant in video games — and video games have not been so relevant to Apple — since the early 1980s, when the Apple II was a major platform for computer games,” Schiesel reports.

“What the iPhone offers that the DS and PSP lack is its huge library of downloadable games among the more than 35,000 total programs available on the App Store,” Schiesel reports. “Most of the top games on the iPhone cost (more…)

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Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:43 pm

Apple’s iPhone has sprung up as a serious video game platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to traditional handheld gaming consoles.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has sold around 30 million devices on the market — 17 million iPhones and 13 million iPod Touches — and consumers are buying and playing games by the tens of millions.

Meanwhile, game designers are diving headlong into the market, churning out offerings at a furious pace.

Some say the iPhone’s GPS, connectivity and touch screen gives it an edge over the (more…)

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