http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/features/oh_the_games_youll_play/ Daily news, opinions, editorials, reviews, tips, forums, comments, and podcasts all relating to the iPod, the iPhone, Apple, and the surrounding industry. en webmaster@ipodobserver.com Copyright 2009 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:47:06 -0400 http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/chillingo_co-founder_chris_byatte_sees_great_potential_in_iphone_gaming/ http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/chillingo_co-founder_chris_byatte_sees_great_potential_in_iphone_gaming/ Chillingo co-founder Chris Byatte originally saw the iPhone as "a huge disruptive force" and responded during the first year of the App Store's existence with 30 games released and a download total approaching 30 million. As the App Store matures and Apple becomes a dominant force in mobile gaming, Mr. Byatte sees big changes in store. iPO Reports, Games, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Columns and Opinions, Oh the Games You'll Play Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:05:57 -0400 http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/qa_with_digital_chocolate_founder_trip_hawkins/ http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/qa_with_digital_chocolate_founder_trip_hawkins/ If you're a gamer, Trip Hawkins likely needs no introduction: He founded venerable third party publisher Electronic Arts and was instrumental in convincing John Madden that the ex-Oakland Raiders coach should lend his name to a brand new football game. Mr. Hawkins later founded the ill-fated 3DO Company, which went out of business in 2003. Then he started Digital Chocolate, which develops games for mobile devices and has become a star player at the App Store. It's a circular turn of events, given the fact that Mr. Hawkins served as Apple's Director of Strategy and Marketing until 1982. iPO Reports, Games, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Columns and Opinions, Oh the Games You'll Play Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:40:30 -0400 http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/iphone_gaming_something_big_is_going_on/ http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/iphone_gaming_something_big_is_going_on/ As this year's Game Developers Conference gets underway in San Francisco, it's clear that "something big is going on," as ex-Apple executive and Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins said of the sales of iPhone games by his new company, Digital Chocolate. Recent developments have also pointed to the possibility that the iPhone is the Wii of handheld gaming devices, as Glenda Adams, Aspyr Media's director of internal development, told me last fall. Columns and Opinions, Oh the Games You'll Play Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:30:36 -0400 http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/the_app_store_day_of_the_indie_developer/ http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/the_app_store_day_of_the_indie_developer/ It's long been assumed that the days of independent game developers being able to compete with companies like Electronic Arts or Activision are long gone: videogames have grown so complex, the thinking goes, that the little guys simply can't put in the same resources. iShoot and Trism, however, are among several App Store games that have proven small developers can still compete, especially when the playing field is level. Columns and Opinions, Oh the Games You'll Play Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:15:28 -0500 http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/MacBook_Expands_Mac_Gaming_Apple_Goes_After_Gamers_with_iPhone/ http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/MacBook_Expands_Mac_Gaming_Apple_Goes_After_Gamers_with_iPhone/ Mac game developers are thrilled with the graphics capabilities of the new MacBooks, and three of them offer their thoughts. Gaming on the Mac has been in a rut for a while, but iPhone games have taken off. Oh the Games You'll Play Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:00:00 -0400