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Group votes Apple biggest influence on game industry

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 4th, 2011)

You're having a run of bad luck there, aren't you, Mario? First, your company might be posting its first annual loss in more than 30 years, and now a group of video game professionals claim that neither you nor Zelda (or the PlayStation and Internet either) made the biggest impact on video ...

Daily iPhone App: Dragon Fantasy

by Mike Schramm (Sep 16th, 2011)

Dragon Fantasy is basically a love letter to the early age of console RPGs, when Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy ruled the land. It's got classic 8-bit tile-based graphics, random encounters, silly villains and a nice chunk of content to explore and level up through. There's a nice, original ...

Daily Update for Sept. 15, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 15th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Nintendo: iOS apps "absolutely not under consideration"

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 15th, 2011)

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed to a Japanese news organization that the games maker will not develop games for iOS. When asked about Nintendo creating games for iOS, the Nintendo head said, "This is absolutely not under consideration." This comment follows months of discussion ...

Nintendo shareholders revolt, demand Mario & Co. on iPhones

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 11th, 2011)

Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo shareholders are growing irate with the company and its president, Satoru Iwata, after shares of the company hit a six-year low. Nintendo has seen slouching profits in recent years as mobile phones like the iPhone and other devices like the iPod touch have ...

Make your iPad 2 look like a Gameboy with this retro gaming case

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 2nd, 2011)

Lootiful has a line of snap-on iPWN cases that protect your iPhone in style by making it look like a Nintendo Gameboy. The business, run by a single graphics designer, has now extended its retro gaming cases to the iPad 2. The iPad 2 version is identical to the iPhone 4 and 3G/3GS version. ...

Nintendo's Pokemon getting an iOS app

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2011)

Nintendo has been careful not to support Apple at all with its iOS initiative -- though mobile devices are huge in Japan (and a lot of Japanese companies have found success even on the North American App Store), the general feeling out of the video gaming giant seems to be that Apple's iPhone and ...

iOS devs appear in new Develop 100 listing

by Mike Schramm (Jun 3rd, 2011)

The Develop 100 is a list put together every year of the top video game developers in the world, and this year there's a surprising trend showing up: a lot of iPhone and iOS developers are starting to make the grade. Touch Arcade spotted around 50 iPhone and iPad developers in the list, which ...

Mario clone in App Store, place your bets for how long (Update: It's gone)

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 28th, 2011)

UPDATE: Yeah, as tipster Matt told us, this app has been pulled. That only took a few hours. You gotta be kidding. I am dying to know who, exactly, at Apple is unfamiliar with Mario the plumber. An intern born in the 90s, maybe? At any rate, go grab this platformer featuring Monino, whose ...

Nintendo 3DS sales affected by iPod touch and iPad, says IHS iSuppli

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 11th, 2011)

Nintendo recently launched the 3DS, and the portable gaming device is selling strongly. Despite this burst of early sales, IHS iSuppli predicts the 3DS will not reach the high sales numbers of its predecessor, the Nintendo DS. iSuppli predicts Nintendo will sell 70 million 3DS gaming systems by ...

Apple nabs Nintendo and Activision executives for iOS gaming roles

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 9th, 2011)

MVC reports that Apple has hired away gaming PR executives from both Nintendo and Activision. According to the gaming site, Nintendo UK comms boss Rob Saunders is jumping ship from Nintendo, where he oversaw PR for devices like the Wii and DS, to Apple. He will head the newly created role ...

RoboTouch brings NES controller to iPad

by Dana Franklin (Mar 16th, 2011)

Mix a handful of micro servos, an old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller, a pinch of open-source Arduino magic, an iPad running Reckless Racing, a few pounds of ingenuity and elbow grease, and what do you get? Most of us would probably end up with an iPad and a small yard sale. But ...

Handheld gamers leaving DS and PSP for their phones

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2010)

A new report on the digital media industry from a firm named Interpret says that mobile phone gaming is rising at an incredible rate, even while traditional handheld gaming (such as games on handheld consoles like Nintendo's DS or Sony's PSP) is falling off. 43.8 percent of the gaming market plays ...

SNES controller and N64 console turned into iPad docks

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Etsy user Geekunique sent along some links to these great pictures of old school Nintendo gaming units turned into iPad and iPhone docks. Above, you can see a Super Nintendo controller fashioned into a working iPhone 4 dock, and he's also got a Nintendo 64 console (though unfortunately it's the ...

Nintendo sees Apple as bigger threat than Microsoft and Sony

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 27th, 2010)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made a point in recent keynotes to mention the fact that the iPhone and iPod touch are the world's best selling portable gaming devices, well ahead of longtime champion Nintendo. Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime has acknowledged the threat and sees Apple as a ...