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GDC 2011: Sega demos Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2011)

At the 2011 Game Developers Conference, Sega revealed that it has decided to port its Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing game to the iPhone and iPod touch (no iPad announcement yet, but presumably it's coming). Sega then handed us a demo of the game to try out. It was (surprise?) a pretty ...

Real Racing 2 coming to iOS December 16th

by Mike Schramm (Dec 10th, 2010)

After a few weeks of teasing and hints, Firemint has finally revealed all about its upcoming Real Racing 2 game for iOS, and it looks extremely impressive. The first game in the series is still one of the most popular and well done racing games in the App Store, and Firemint is upping the ante high ...

TUAW's Daily App: Solipskier

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2010)

Solipskier is kind of a mix of the growing line drawing genre and the classic Line Rider game. A little headphone wearing skier (at least he wears headphones as long as he can keep them on) travels along a snow ridge that you actually draw with your finger as you play the game; he speeds up or ...

TUAW's Daily App: Raging Thunder 2

by Mike Schramm (May 4th, 2010)

Polarbit released Raging Thunder 2 a while back -- it's the sequel to their App Store launch title that's serving up solid racing on both the iPhone and the iPad. It's not the best pure racing game out there (Real Racing HD has gotten exposure, even in Apple stores, for that), but Raging Thunder ...

WSJ: Hundreds of thousands of iPads sold, Apple scrambling for content deals

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2010)

The Wall Street Journal has written that Apple is scrambling to get everything ready for the iPad's release on April 3rd -- not only has it already "sold hundreds of thousands of the device, [according to] people familiar with the matter," but Apple is also working hard to try and "nail down" ...

TUAW Preview: SlotZ Racer for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2008)

If you're a male who grew up in the 60's or 70's, you probably remember slot cars! You had a plastic race track with electric "rails" running through it, and your car had a little pin on the bottom that rode in a slot on the track for control -- hence the name 'slot car.' I have fond memories of ...

Raging Thunder in the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2008)

We've come full circle on the Thunder that Rages -- after first releasing their game on a jailbroken iPhone, and then switching off to do a Crash Kart game, developer Polarbit has now brought it out onto the official store for release. It rings in at a relatively pricey $7.99, but it does look ...

Preview: GTS World Racing for iPhone / iPod touch

by Steven Sande (Aug 8th, 2008)

If there's one company in the world that is in the business of keeping people happy, it's Astraware. They're a UK-based development firm that excels in writing games for handheld devices. In the past, they've published games like Bejeweled 2, Cubis, and Zuma for Palm and Windows Mobile, and now ...

Polarbit makes Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2008)

Of all the racers we've seen for the iPhone so far (and there are quite a few), this might be the one I'm most interested in -- Polarbit, who've already dipped into the iPhone's racing game capabilities with Raging Thunder, is working on a Crash Bandicoot-branded kart racing game for the iPhone ...

Raging Thunder races onto the iPhone (unofficially for now)

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2008)

The iPhone continues to impress in terms of gaming possibility. Raging Thunder isn't actually done yet on the iPhone (obviously -- judging by this video there are more glitches on this thing than a Matrix full of black cats), but once it gets rolling, the award-winning game, put together by ...

Colin McRae Rally due out Friday

by Mike Schramm (Oct 24th, 2007)

Ian of Feral Interactive kindly dropped us a note that Colin McRae Rally for the Mac has gotten a release date: this Friday, October 26th. I'm not sure if he's aware that he's got a little bit of competition that day (because, as we all know, Dan in Real Life is releasing on Friday, too-- what? ...