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iPhone 4 Game Sale Extravaganza
Following EA's lead of their massive 99¢ sale, quite a few other developers are slashing prices in hopes of being on the charts for the influx of new iPhone 4 owners powering up their devices for the first time today or tomorrow and checking out this "App Store" they've heard so much about. We're going to be putting together another "So you just got an iPhone…" post similar to the one we did last year for the launch of the 3GS, but in the meantime you might not want to miss some of these sales as there's no telling how long they will last:
- Assassin's Creed™ – Altaïr's Chronicles, $4.99 → 99¢
- Brothers In Arms® 2: Global Front, $4.99 → 99¢
- Build-a-lot, $2.99 → 99¢
- Castle Of Magic, $1.99 → 99¢
- Cooking Dash, $2.99 → 99¢
- Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2, $9.99 → $4.99
- Deer Hunter 3D, $2.99 → 99¢
- Diner Dash, $2.99 → 99¢
- Family Guy: Uncensored, $1.99 → 99¢
- Ferrari GT: Evolution, $1.99 → 99¢
- Gangstar: West Coast Hustle, $4.99 → 99¢
- Geometry Wars™: Touch, $9.99 → $4.99
- Golden Axe, $2.99 → 99¢
- GT Racing: Motor Academy, $4.99 → 99¢
- James Cameron's Avatar, $6.99 → $4.99
- N.O.V.A. – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, $4.99 → 99¢
- Parachute Ninja, $2.99 → 99¢
- Ragdoll Blaster 2, $2.99 → 99¢
- Shrek Kart™, $4.99 → 99¢
- Sigma , $1.99 → 99¢
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2, $5.99 → $3.99
- Super Monkey Ball 2, $5.99 → $3.99
- Streets of Rage, $2.99 → 99¢
- Truckers Delight: Episode 1, $2.99 → 99¢
- UNO™, $4.99 → 99¢
- Vampire Origins, $6.99 → $2.99
Of course there are always tons of sales taking place on the App Store, this is just a short listing of popular games with price drops. Head on over to to see a list of popular games and with recent price drops.
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Gameloft: Raising the Bar in 2009
Amongst the thousands of iPhone developers in 2009, the developer that single-handedly had the most dramatic impact on the App Store gaming scene has to be Gameloft. An international company with thousands of employees scattered throughout the world, Gameloft took an early interest in the iPhone. In March, 2008, three months before the official launch of the App Store, Gameloft pre-announced that they were working on 15 games for the platform. This early interest should have come as little surprise as they have built a business trying to deliver gaming to mobile handsets.
Most of their early 2008 titles ended up being ports of their existing mobile titles, but they must have done well enough during the first six months to decide to dedicate themselves full force into the iPhone scene in the following year. In 2009, Gameloft has released 35 games for the platform and most of those releases were amongst the most ambitious titles we've seen on the iPhone. And we cover Gameloft's releases consistently, not just because they are a large publisher, but because their games are consistently interesting, of high quality, and technically impressive.
N.O.V.A.
There's always some detractors to Gameloft's releases as many of their titles are clearly clones of popular console franchises. Our opinion is that Gameloft is successfully filling popular niches and adding much needed legitimacy to the iPhone/iPod Touch as a gaming platform. We suspect 3rd party interest by companies such as Rockstar and Epic Games is in part due to the massive success Gameloft has had in the iPhone space.
We highlighted N.O.V.A. and Let's Golf in our 2009 Games Roundup but here are a selection of other impressive titles from Gameloft this past year:
- Gangstar (Review, App Store)
- Driver (Review, App Store]
- Castle of Magic (Review, App Store)
- Modern Combat: Sandstorm (Review, App Store)
- Blades of Fury (Review, App Store)
- Dungeon Hunter (Review, App Store)
- James Cameron's Avatar (Review, App Store)
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