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Rumor mill: Nintendo licensing iPhone games

The rumors are flying about gaming giant Nintendo licensing "a limited amount of content" for the iPhone, and the rumors all seem to point back to this post over on a site called No Heat. They name no sources (of course), but they say that these Nintendo games will show up on the iTunes store at $29, and say that the games will "cater to an older audience."

Now, if anyone is going to provide great gaming content on the iPhone, Nintendo would be a good fit-- with the touchscreen, they've already got some great properties set up on the DS (Brain Age would be a great fit, and of course all of their famous licenses). There are lots of great input methods that I'm sure Nintendo would love to take advantage of.

But $29.99 is a steep price for a mobile entertainment game, even if it's Mario. Super Nintendo games are running about $10 on the Wii's Virtual Console, so either a) Nintendo is going to make iPhone owners pay through the nose, b) the games will be DS quality-- because $29 is about what you'd find a new DS game for, or c) No Heat is making it all up, and this is just another product of the iPhone rumor mill.

Found Footage: Possible video taken by iPhone?

Could this possibly be the first video taken by an iPhone? Over at iPhone Matters, Gregory Ng posts that he received a copy of this video from an Apple Store employee in California. In the video, you can see what appears to be an iPhone appearing on the iMac screen as recorded by its iSight. The video is not the highest quality and Ng writes that the sender compressed the video before sending it over email. What do you think? Real or hoax?
Thanks to Hadley Stern

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Fake iPhone unboxing

Okay. This is humor and we all know that humor is not universal. So if you don't find this site as funny as I did, well, that's kind of the breaks. I think this fake unboxing site is hilarious and I loved how they put in all the standard unboxing shots that you'd expect. There's the whole story, starting off with the Amazon two-day delivery, the comparison shots between the iPhone, the quarter, and the SK3. There's even the ceremonial tossing of the now-useless cellphone competitors. They don't even try to hide the tape holding together the iPhone mockup. Brilliant stuff. Absolutely brilliant.

Thanks Stefan.

Fake Friday: The better iPhone

Today's iPhone Phorgery is, in my opinion, simply phabulous. I love the bright colors, the beautiful design and the great way the phakers integrated the phone into the commercial presentation. Today's TUAW forgery score is a 9.5+ out of 10, and even the East German judge is wildly enthusiastic about this entry.

So how do you Rate The Fake? What do you think about this week's mock up? Let us know in the comments

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Yet Another Possibly Faked Apple Tablet Picture

As the minutes tick closer to Apple's Event and the mystery product(s) they will be releasing, the following TUAW-reader-submitted picture is either one of two things:

1) a last-minute faked photo of the MacPad, an Apple Tablet. Made probably by photoshopping a booting MacBook Pro.

or

2) the real deal.

I'm not even going to speculate. I know what I want, but if wanting something made it so, there'd be a whole lot of ponies running around middle America.

iPod video "spy shot" a fake

Well, well, looky here: Turns out that widely-distributed image of the supposed 6G "true video" iPod was a total and utter f-a-k-e fake. MacRumors points to this video (YouTube) that documents the creation of the original image, and this blog post right here shows why the second pic is also a fake.

That's too bad. I really wanted one of those.

Update: Readers are posting links to various sources (link, link) that point out discrepancies in the video vs. the actual image, hinting that the video itself may be the fake. This whole thing is starting to hurt my head. How about you compare them yourselves and make your own judgement -- and then we'll wait to see what Apple actually announces, making all of this speculation pointless anyway.

6G iPod pics (aka Photoshop is fun!)


Reader, bl8ant writes in with this email: "6gen ipod images? hi, dont know if they are real or where they came from (other than on a server connected to a computer at a desk at a certain company that i'm freelancing at), but i can't find this version anywhere on the web, so who knows? anyway, it's a cool idea, real or not. where can i email or upload them to you at? they're 2 jpegs, low res. —bl8ant" So, I emailed him with our address and he sent in the pic here and the second one that can be found after the jump in this post.

They look real to me. Real fake that is. Still cool look and concept, but imagine the lawsuits and scratching complaints that would arise if Apple really did go this route... I'd still probably buy one, but as you know by now, I'll buy anything.

Continue reading 6G iPod pics (aka Photoshop is fun!)

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