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TUAW's Daily App: Pokerbot

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

We posted about another poker app back at WWDC, and the developer of Pokerbot got in touch with us to show off his app as well. Pokerbot is a little bit different than your standard hold'em poker game. It's a straight up one-on-one battle, so the game is really built for learning how to play poker ...

OpenFeint coming to Android

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2010)

I've often wondered why, instead of creating their own social gaming platform with Game Center, Apple didn't just swallow up a successful third-party platform like OpenFeint. Now, it seems that Apple may have lost its chance: OpenFeint announced this morning, after another multi-million dollar round ...

OpenFeint hits 25 million users, announces 2.5 beta release

by Mike Schramm (May 27th, 2010)

OpenFeint has announced that they've reached 25 million users on their social networking service for apps on the App Store. That's an astounding number, and not only does it represent an amazing achievement by the folks at Aurora Feint, but it hints at just how big Apple's official Game Center ...

TUAW's Daily App: Space Storm

by Mike Schramm (May 26th, 2010)

Space Storm is about as conventional as space shooters get; enemies come into the screen from the right, and your ship flies from the left, blowing things out of the sky with a few different weapons and picking up health or power-ups along the way. In this case, though, conventional is good. The ...

App of the Day: Subatomic for iPhone and iPad

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2010)

App of the Day is TUAW's new App Store spotlight. One great app, every single day. Subatomic is a game that's available for the iPhone and the iPad. The premise is that you push molecules of different colors around a field with gravity. Portals sit on the gamefield full of molecules, and as they ...

360iDev: The future of Jason Citron's OpenFeint

by Mike Schramm (Apr 14th, 2010)

OpenFeint's VP of Engineering, Jakob Wilkerson, took the stage here at 360iDev in San Jose to talk about something most people might not have expected: Game Center. Ever since Apple's official social gaming network was announced last week, the question's been in the air about what will happen to ...

OpenFeint's Jason Citron talks Game Center and Aurora Feint 3

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2010)

The first thought on everyone's minds as we heard during the event yesterday that Apple would be forming their own social gaming network on the iPhone called Game Center, was probably, "What about OpenFeint?" Since almost the very beginning of the App Store, OpenFeint founder Jason Citron has been ...

Current game network developers comment on Apple's Game Center

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

Way back in February at Macworld, one of my questions to Eros Remini of OpenFeint was pretty blunt: "Why," I asked a representative from the biggest third-party social gaming network on the iPhone, "haven't we seen an official platform-wide network?" Remini didn't have a good answer for Apple, but ...

iPhone OS 4.0: Apple announces Game Center, a social gaming network for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

This is huge -- Apple has announced Game Center, an official social gaming network for the iPhone, coming to the device along with OS 4.0 this summer. So far, there have been a few social networks vying for an audience in the form of OpenFeint and Ngmoco's Plus+ system, but Apple's going official, ...

Battle of Puppets brings the fight to the marionette stage

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2010)

Battle of Puppets fell through the cracks here when it was first released, and that was unfortunate -- it's a 2D real-time strategy game for the iPhone with a distinctive art style and a plethora of cool features that definitely deserves a look. The team has been updating the app often, and the ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW talks to OpenFeint

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2010)

On the day before Macworld last week, I got a chance to sit down with Eros Remini, VP of Marketing for OpenFeint, to talk about his social gaming network for iPhone apps. He shared with me that the network has claimed a gigantic 12 million users total, with about a million of them active in iPhone ...

Review: Bankshot delivers a quick hit of fun

by Mike Schramm (Jan 29th, 2010)

The other week I said a lot of good things about Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, but one of the great things about games on the iPhone is that they don't all have to be epic masterpieces. Such is the case with the free Bankshot [iTunes link], which is a simple and fun one-hit game that was ...

OpenFeint announces version 2.4, now in Fieldrunners

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2010)

The guys over at OpenFeint have released version 2.4 of their social gaming platform, and they've also corralled one of the biggest games on the App Store into using it: you can find the brand new version in the popular Fieldrunners app. New features of the software include a simplified UI, a ...

Fieldrunners updated to 1.3, offers two new maps as in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2009)

Touch Arcade has word that one of 2008's best iPhone games (our 2009 list is coming out this week), Fieldrunners [iTunes link, $2.99], has released an update (1.3), in which they've released two new maps available as in-app purchases, and they've included OpenFeint 2.4 functionality, with ...

Chillingo officially launches Crystal SDK for iPhone game developers

by Mike Schramm (Nov 24th, 2009)

Chillingo recently announced that it would be launching Crystal SDK, a service joining the increasingly crowded social network market for iPhone games. Xbox Live on the Xbox is an official social network, but the iPhone has no such official service. A crowd of contenders, from the popular OpenFeint ...