Filed under: Gaming , Developer , iPhone , App Store , iPad We stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here at GDC 2010 last night, and in addition to playing the new game , we also got to talk to producer Takeshi Tazuka. Actually, we got to talk to his translator — Tazuka only speaks Japanese, and I only speak English, so the interview was done with a middleman in between. But even with the language barrier, we did get some good chat in about the new game, Capcom’s future plans for the iPhone, and what Tazuka thinks about making a game like this for the iPad.

“What? I have to follow another long tutorial just to play a game? Ugh…I don’t have time for that.” If you’re thinking along those lines, then you should look into ReignDesign’s new platform game: Pig Rush.

Filed under: Apple App Store clutter remains an ongoing issue. In addition to “business card” applications that offer little or no functionality beyond a simple web page [1] , there are lite editions, demo editions, full editions, and even in the case of Tweetie 2, completely new applications providing upgraded functionality . Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth.

Filed under: iPhone , App Store Several weeks back, we noted that Google had acquired reMail , and had placed founder Gabor Cselle and others from the reMail team on other Google projects. The reMail app distinguished itself from the iPhone’s built-in Mail.app in several ways: It could download all of your emails in a way that takes up a much smaller footprint than in Mail.app on the iPhone. Its search feature is much faster than Mail.app, and is accompanied with niceties such as autocompleting the names of your contacts, remembering your past searches, and text mark up matches in your search results.

Space Miner from Venan entertainment is a slick 3-D arcade shooter game for the iPhone with a continuously building plot, shiny original graphics, and state-of-the-art space flying action. The basic idea behind space minor is to hunt down precious ore hidden inside asteroids and space. The controls use a directional pad for rotating your [continue reading...]

Alice in Wonderland, is the new Disney Interactive iPhone game made for the upcoming Tim Burton film of the same name. Featuring Alice in a puzzle based strategy game, the virtual controls are provided for moving Alice left to right using directional buttons and jump with a jump button, as you encounter magical objects [continue reading...]

Do you love Tower Defense games? Color Stone LTD has created Tower Defense EVO, a full featured TD game for the iPhone with tons of exciting lotions, machinery, weaponry, and upgrades

If you’re in need of some inspiration or wisdom–or maybe just a couple chuckles–then Jedrzej Jakubowski’s Quote Portal is perfect for you. With 13 categories to choose from, there will definitely be a quote for nearly every occasion; they range from Wisdom to Travel to Art.

It’s hard to resist the excitement surrounding the Winter Olympics and if just watching athletes rush down a snowy incline isn’t enough to get your adrenaline going, you may be looking for other mediums for vicarious living. With that probably in mind, Vivid Games has recently released their mobile game Ski Jumping 2010 for [continue reading...]

Initially released by caweb.de under the name ‘Biplane Duel’, Airplane Duel is a neat little Bluetooth-enabled biplane shooter. The name change is presumably to avoid any copyright infringement from the original Biplanes game that this one is pretty much directly modeled from

Most people think that being a ninja consists of melting into the shadows, never catching attention. Sometimes, though, a ninja will find him- or herself right in the thick of it–like running opposite of the flow of traffic in the middle of a busy street. Steve Hoffman’s Traffic Ninja game app challenges you [continue reading...]

Filed under: iPhone We were all pretty gobsmacked last night with the news that iPhone gaming developer Ngmoco had purchased longtime Mac game developer Freeverse , so we went hunting for answers. Fortunately, Freeverse CEO and founder Ian Lynch Smith was nice enough to sit down and take our questions this morning, and he provided a little more background and insight on the deal.

Are you a snowboard fanatic or maybe just curious after watching the Winter Olympics? If you’ve ever wondered how in the world you can do a frontside 720 Shifty on your snowboard, take a look at the Learn to Ride app from Addicted to Snow. Watch and learn using 10 simple and short video [continue reading...]