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New developer tool will port Xbox 360 games to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2011)

ExEn is a brand new tool for developers that's designed to bridge the gap between XNA, Silverlight and iOS (and eventually Android). XNA stands for "Xbox New Architecture," and is the general API used by developers to create games for Microsoft's Xbox console, and ExEn purports to take those ...

Xenome: Episode 1 is a fully immersive post-apocalyptic RPG on your iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 8th, 2010)

As I kid I burned up an entire summer playing Wasteland on my Apple II. I spent countless hours playing Fallout many years later. Xenome is clearly inspired by these two games, and promises to chew up yet more of my time. You play a lone wanderer in the desert, searching for something and having a ...

Microsoft pays Apple app devs to port to Windows Phone 7

by David Winograd (Jun 15th, 2010)

Who would have thought this would ever happen? Microsoft, according to PocketGamer.biz, is throwing some substantial upfront money at developers of popular iPhone apps to port their products over to Windows Phone 7, which may be their last great hope of getting enough apps on the device to make it ...