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Six Ngmoco iPad titles revealed

In his panel at GDC last week, Ngmoco's Neil Young dropped the news that his company was going all out with their freemium business model -- not only are they releasing twenty iPhone titles by the end of this year, but they're planning on having six iPad titles ready to go right away at launch. Touch Arcade has done a little digging, and they've come up with what they think the six iPad titles will be. Here we go: As you may have noticed, two of those are Ngmoco originals, and four of those are Freeverse titles that were either planned for the iPad or are being remade for the new platform; again, presumably free-to-play, along with microtransactions and freemium resources in the Ngmoco mold. That's definitely a sizeable library going into the new platform, and if Ngmoco really does have these ready to go on April 3rd (and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't -- even if they haven't gotten one of those test iPads from Apple, their model is designed to release early and make updates quickly if needed), then they'll be positioned to grab iPad app space very early on.

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Tom

And, who in the world is going to be flicking their iPad?

March 20 2010 at 11:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

I hope Warpgate is not a freemium title. I so want this one to be released. It's been so long in development that I'm beginning to fear it's become vaporware.

March 20 2010 at 10:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin

Warpgate is one word... Not two! :-)

March 20 2010 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noah

NewToy (Chess with Friends/Words with Friends) actually developed We Rule, it's just published by NgMoco.

I assume all of these titles will be free to download, with premium upgrade options once you're in the game. It seems the best way (and the smartest) to get people to download your game.

We Rule currently has ads in-game, so I would love to see a $2.99 version with those ads removed.

March 20 2010 at 1:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr Angry

FFS stop putting suffix '~craft' after any MMO type game, it's amateurish in the extreme... I hope Ngmoco revisits this decision and builds an app worthy of it's own name.

March 20 2010 at 11:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Freak Mojo

I'm wondering if developers are going to charge us extra to get the iPad versions of their games if we've already purchased them, or if it's just a matter of an update.

March 20 2010 at 10:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Simplicated

Probably they have to charge us again.

March 20 2010 at 11:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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