David Emery OnlineEA Announces SimCity and The Sims 3 for the iPhone
EA has announced that nine new titles are currently in development for the iPhone: Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, Need for Speed Undercover, and The Sims 3.
I am very excited by the prospect of SimCity for the iPhone – if they get it right it could be the perfect iPhone app.
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Mirror’s Edge is a fully first person action game coming soon for the Playstation 3, and it seems to have finally cracked the ‘floating camera with no legs’ problem most first person perspective games seem to suffer from:
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I think video games are becoming an ever more relevant resource for promoting and selling music, although this system sounds a little clumsy. What we be much more interesting would be if you could buy direct in-game and have the track downloaded to your PC automatically. That would probably be a little tricky with Amazon, but Apple handle a pretty similar thing with the iTunes store on the iPhone…
Also, instead of getting an email with a playlist in it would be much better to have Last.fm scrobbling support in game – that would be a very welcome development.
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More good thoughts around the whole video-games-as-art thing.
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