Epic Games, creator of the Unreal 3 game engine , has been working on getting Unreal Engine 3 running in iOS for a while now. They showed off some of their efforts with a demo of “Project Sword” at Apple’s iPod event , and Mike Capps of Epic Games talked about the direction he saw gaming on iOS devices taking in the future. The fact that the Unreal 3 engine now runs seamlessly on iOS devices is a huge deal.

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Epic Citadel shows the bright promise of iOS gaming’s future

This past week, Apple had a host of new patents officially approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. From streamlining the way images are rendered to preventing the accidental opening of applications, a large chunk of the patents seem to relate to the ways that a user interacts with a device. Macsimum News has a synopsis of all the patents awarded

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Apple awarded new patents

Why does Apple dominate all aspects of the digital music market — hardware, software and content deals? For example, more than two-thirds of every media player sold in the world is an Apple product

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How to Succeed Like Apple

Steve Jobs’ quest for porn-free Apple devices led to a ban of strip poker games for the iPhone.

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No Nudity in Apple Apps? Try Apple II Strip Poker Game

Apple’s mobile platform, iOS, is the third most-popular on the Internet, behind only Windows and Mac OS, one Internet usage research firm announced. The news is just the latest indication of the growing trend toward mobile computing

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Report: iOS ‘Totally Dominates the Web’ and Android

In the latest in a long string of murders over iPods, a 16-year-old in Salt Lake City is now being charged as an adult after the alleged stabbing of a classmate over an Apple device.

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Kill for an iPod? Here’s What the Judge May Give You

Here’s a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven’t mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That’s not new — you could get a closer look at the art in previous versions of iTunes

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iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget

Talk of iPad shortages may be history if reports of Apple’s new marching orders for suppliers are true. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, after doubling iPads built to 2 million, recently ordered 3 million iPads for the fourth quarter of 2010, according to one analyst. The figure puts Apple on track to ship 36 million iPads

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Apple To Suppliers: Give Us 3M iPads Per Month

As soon as the official Twitter app for iPad (free) hit the App Store , you could tell that it was going to be a controversial app. Immediately, the twitterverse was filled with people either commenting on how much they loved the innovative and unique user interface, and others ranting about how much they despised the UI.

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TUAW Review: Twitter for iPad

First Google launched a rival smart phone, now the Mountain View, Calif. Internet giant reportedly plans to assault Apple’s other revenue pillar – iTunes

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Report: Google to Launch iTunes Rival for Christmas

Since today, the Best Bar Jokes is available for your iPhone and iPod touch. iComedian developed by Renkara Media Group includes Best Bar Jokes with Audio. Best Bar Jokes is the first in iComedian(TM) joke series with professionally recorded audio presentations of each joke

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Renkara Media Group Launches iComedian with Best Bar Jokes

Usually, we like to use this space to highlight developers and apps that could use a little more exposure, not call out big-budget titles from developers like Electronic Arts. But this one’s worth it — Mirror’s Edge is a pretty terrific, completely original translation of the plaforming game that arrived on consoles last year

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TUAW’s Daily App: Mirror’s Edge

LaCie’s latest, the MosKeyTo thumb drive — get it?

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LaCie MosKeyTo Flash Drive Is Barely Bigger Than Your Mac’s USB Port