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| 05-30-10 / 12:18 PM : iPhone Assault Squadron (cjed) |
| Assault Squadron is available at the AppStore (2,99$). It seems the best shoot them up (besides the great Sky Force Reloaded) for iPhone, notably thanks to dynamic landscape effects, as we can see on that video. |
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| 05-28-10 / 04:35 PM : iPhone : Prince of Persia retro available (cjed) |
| Prince of Persia retro is available at the AppStore, priced 0,99$ only. We can find useful instructions about controls here (samples principles as with the original version). It also seems we can start at any level. |
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| 05-28-10 / 04:19 PM : Half Life 2 available on mac / performance (cjed) |
| Half Life 2 is available for mac through Steam. The two extensions (Episode 1 and Episode 2) are also listed. All are provided at 30 percent discount prices (6,29 euros for HL2 and 4,89 for each extension). Settings advices are to disable vertical synchro and colors optimizing, and to perfer anisotropic filter over FFSA. |
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| 05-19-10 / 12:42 AM : Prince of Persia Retro for iPhone (cjed) |
| Ubisoft announced Prince of Persia Retro (the first game, that was out on Apple II and Atari/Amiga) for iPhone. |
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| 05-17-10 / 11:55 PM : Lugaru / Penumbra : code/engine open sourced (cjed) |
| Wolfire provides Lugaru source code under GPL licence. Game resources are also included. Frictional Games also released Penumbra:Overture source code, and its HPL1 engine, under GPL, however resources are not provided. |
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| 05-16-10 / 11:17 PM : iPhone : Aqua Forest 2, ... free (cjed) |
| Among free games today at the AppStore we can find "..." (from ustwo) and Aqua Forest 2. |
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| 05-13-10 / 12:46 AM : Console games : challenges of porting to Intel (cjed) |
On the The GameAgent blog we can find an article about porting Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition on mac, from the console version code : dispatching on a fewer number of threads, rewriting of code based on permute (not available on Intel SSE), in order to use more common vector instructions.
Indeed, contrary to G4's Altivec, that manages permute since 1999 (PS3's Cell processors also include Altivec), Intel won't provide similar vector unit until next processors generation (Sandy Bridge), that will bring AVX.
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| 05-13-10 / 12:16 AM : Steam available / Portal free (cjed) |
| To celebrate the release of Steam on Mac, Portal is downloadable for free until May, 24 (an Intel mac is required). |
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| 05-12-10 / 12:14 AM : Dragon's Lair : price drop (cjed) |
| Dragon's Lair is now priced 0,99$ at the AppStore (down from 4,99$). We hope a price drop on Space Ace will follow. |
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| 05-06-10 / 12:25 AM : The Humble Indie Bundle : Gish/Lugaru/Penumbra (cjed) |
| A new games bundle, The Humble Indie Bundle, includes 5 famous games : Gish, Lugaru (HD), Aquaria, Penumbra Overture and World of Goo. The total price would be 80$, however the bundle price is left at customer choice (through Paypal). The average price is about 8$, that is balanced by large amount of contributing (more than 36 000). The games are available for OSX, Windows and Linux. |
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| 05-03-10 / 11:06 PM : Valve : writer interview (cjed) |
| The site themacgamer provides an interview of Marc Laidlaw, one of Valve's writers. |
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