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Flight Control Rocket sequel out now

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2012)

This game appeared for the first time relatively quietly at GDC, but it's now available on the App Store, so check out the sequel to one of the App Store's most popular games ever, Flight Control. The new one is called Flight Control Rocket, and though I was told that it was put together by the ...

GDC 2011: Firemint's Agent Squeek

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2011)

Australia's Firemint is perhaps one of the most popular developers on the iPhone. Firemint's games, Flight Control, Real Racing and Real Racing 2, can be found in any Apple Store, and likely on most iPhones, too. The company's founder, Rob Murry, and his new acquisition, Infinite ...

Firemint sells 3 million copies of Flight Control

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2011)

Firemint has shared some sales figures about Flight Control over on its blog. The now classic line-drawing game was recently listed in the top paid apps of all time on the App Store, and so Firemint decided to reveal a little bit about how many copies it's sold and when. The grand total is exactly ...

iPhone developer Firemint buys Infinite Interactive, makers of Puzzle Quest

by Mike Schramm (Jan 4th, 2011)

Wow. Color me surprised on this one -- I've been joking around lately about iPhone company acquisitions and buyouts, but here are two companies that never occurred to me. Firemint, creators of the popular Flight Control and Real Racing 2 games on iOS, has outright purchased Infinite Interactive, ...

Review: Flight Control HD for Mac

by Chris Rawson (Nov 24th, 2010)

Firemint's Flight Control has long been one of my favorite iPhone games; it was one of the first apps I bought. When I first heard the game was being ported to the Mac, I wondered how well the game's control scheme would work. Flight Control's gameplay seemed tailor-made for the touchscreens on the ...

Games updated for Game Center (soon)

by Mike Schramm (Sep 8th, 2010)

As you might have noticed if you've added a few friends in Apple's new Game Center service, the backbone social components are working great. But where, exactly, are all of the games? Developers have actually had access to Apple's service for quite a while now -- it was introduced to them under NDA ...

GDC 2010: Real Racing and Flight Control on the iPad with Firemint

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2010)

We got to sit down with Australian developer Firemint here at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco -- it's a mobile game developer who hit it big last year with the very popular iPhone game Flight Control, and while it used to make mobile games for just a handful of larger game ...

Video of games on the iPad, and what developers plan to do with them

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2010)

Unfortunately, we weren't able to attend the event in San Francisco yesterday, but our good friends at Joystiq were, and they've brought back this video of Need for Speed: Shift [iTunes link] and a few other games running on the iPad. Not only can you see how the accelerometer works (exactly the ...

Buyer's Guide: 33 things you don't need if you have an iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Nov 19th, 2009)

Every time I walk through Warehouse Stationery (New Zealand's equivalent to Office Depot) or Dick Smith's Electronics (pretty much Best Buy), I'm struck by how probably half the products in each store are pretty much useless to me since I've got an iPhone. Thanks to the apps that come ...

WWDC Demo: Harbor Master

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 25th, 2009)

I shot some video of a preview build for Harbor Master back at WWDC, and I'll upload that to our Facebook page later, but I also shot a quick video of Harbor Master's gameplay (on the next page). If you play Flight Control -- and those who do find it hard to put down -- you will absolutely love ...

Retiring from Flight Control

by Sang Tang (Jun 25th, 2009)

I just uninstalled it from my iPhone, and am officially retiring from Flight Control (iTunes link). It was a great four month career, I tell ya. I wanted to go out at the top of my game, and on my own terms. Despite its minimal $4.99 price tag (I think that was the price when it first came out), it ...

Think you're good at Flight Control?

by Robert Palmer (Jun 12th, 2009)

Here I was, thinking our fine TUAW readership was pretty great at playing Flight Control. Yesterday, as part of a post about the new game Trains, I asked for everyone's high scores, and I thought we were doing well. Commenter DJ won our informal competition (no prizes, sorry, beyond the ...

Trains for iPhone: For lovers of Flight Control, except with trains

by Robert Palmer (Jun 11th, 2009)

I have a particular affinity for trains. My father and grandfather both worked on the railroad, presumably all the live-long day. When a train rolls by, I'll make a comment about the engine or trucks or what-have-you, and my girlfriend will madly clap her hands together and yell yay twains! in a ...