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    Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone

    iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?

    Commodore 64, Now On iPhone

    12% Of Americans Buy Digital Goods

    Watchmen Artist Working On New Beneath A Steel Sky

    Madden, FIFA Coming To iPhone

    Monkey Island, Now On Your iPhone

    The Nintendo Download: My Life As A Darklord

    Streets Of Rage, Now On iPhone

    Some Guys Get "Portal" Running On The iPhone
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    Image of gique gique
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    DAMN that looks rough! #rtype
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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Um...I live in Uh-MER-ica, wtf is a cheque? #rtype
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    11/10/09

    @Dr Durdon: Sound it out. #rtype
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    Image of RicoTheSaboteur RicoTheSaboteur
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Apple must have sponsored that. About 50% of the people buying these games will need to buy a new iPhone after their fits of destructive rage. #rtype
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    Image of GunFlame GunFlame
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Its pretty impressive the amount of games that are currently being ported to the iPhone. It is getting quite alot of interest from big IP's.

    But still, I do not and never will see it as a gaming platform. The same way I don't see any phone as a gaming platform.

    Call me close minded if you like. #rtype
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Ha! So Apple products do get spyware... #iphone
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/06/09

    @Xagest: all it took was a platform with a respectable piece of marketshare... their phone. #iphone
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    My friend was asking me the other day why he was all of a sudden gettting 10-20 text messages a day that are spam. he's had his iphone for 2 weeks and has Vampires Live and iMobsters. It could be a coincidence, but it seems like they may have sold his number.

    Thanks for the info Kotaku, as I will be watching this very closely (pulls out magnifying glass) #iphone
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    But the iPhone! It's clearly the best handheld platform ever with its millions of apps!

    Hey Apple, how about some quality control on iPhone apps instead of spending all your time touting how you have the most apps ever and therefore it's the best handheld ever?

    *incoherent grumbling* #iphone
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aren't Apples verification processes supposed to catch crap like this? Me thinks someone there was slacking when they let this slip through. #iphone
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    Image of Spoony Bard Spoony Bard
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aww crap. I have those games on my iPhone.

    Damn you, storm8! Damn you to the depths of Hades! #iphone
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    Image of Cojo21 Cojo21
    11/06/09

    @Spoony Bard: Ban 'em! Ban 'em! #iphone
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    Image of MechaTama31 MechaTama31
    11/06/09

    @Spoony Bard: You realize you could have just damned them to heaven, right? Hades is the entire Greek underworld, including the good parts (Elysium). Next time damn them to Tartarus if you really can't bring yourself to just say hell. #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @MechaTama31:

    storm8 Employee1: Woah, dude? Where are we?

    storm8 Employee2: Not sure, it looks... like a Japanese High School or something?

    storm8 Employee3: Hey Guys! Thank God I found someone normal! I just saw a bunch of kids being attacked by giant gloves... The poor kids shot themselves in the head to escape... Then these Even Bigger monsters appeared and attacked the first... It's some messed up shit here...

    storm8 Employee1: Hey Guys, look out this window!

    storm8 Employee2: ... What are all those coffins doing in the street? #iphone
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    11/06/09

    @MechaTama31: Well, even Elysium wasn't exactly great. It was heaven in comparison to poetic tortures for all time, or the middle ground of complete boredom, but at best it was shadowy ashey pantomimes of the better parts of your life. Consistent with most mythologies at the time of what you could at most hope for by being a good person (ie not rewards, just no punishments). #iphone
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    Spoony Bard promoted this comment houser was starred houser was unstarred
    Image of Muzzled Muzzled
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    "iPhone is a veritable wild west for developers"

    .... . really? #iphone
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    hot_heart promoted this comment Muzzled was starred Muzzled was unstarred
    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Muzzled: Darn tootin'! #iphone
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    Image of chadbeckwith chadbeckwith
    11/06/09

    @Muzzled: Personally, I take every opportunity to combine the words "veritable" and "wild west" whenever I can.

    This comments section is a veritable wild west for burgeoning internet meme creation.

    See? Fun for all ages. #iphone
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    Image of Klyco Klyco
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    By stealing, was it actually preventing people from using their phone number? #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @Klyco: Unless they sold Really Poorly, I doubt it, since I think people would have picked up on it pretty sharpish overwise... #iphone
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    Image of Klyco Klyco
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): So then did he get a bunch of calls? I'm baffled by this because if my number was stolen by buying a game, I probably wouldnt even realize it was the game that did it, just "oh fuck who did I give my number too?" #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    This Michael Turner chap seems to be awesome to be still using the term "Poppycock".

    We should have a #Poppycock tag! #iphone
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Balderdash! #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: My Word, you Rapscallion ! #iphone
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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): I can't believe cheek of these bounders! #iphone
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    Image of D-K, a burning sensation D-K, a burning sensation
    11/06/09

    @ThursdayNext: Bosh! Flimshaw!

    "Is everybody having a bully day?"
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    Image of Scuzgob Scuzgob
    11/06/09

    @D-K, a burning sensation: Scallywag! #iphone
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    Image of Hardcore Hardcore
    11/06/09

    @Scuzgob: Shenanigans! #iphone
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    Image of Bobzination11 Bobzination11
    11/06/09

    @Scuzgob: oh fiddlesticks, i think a silly scoundrel has stolen my numbah 8( #iphone
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    Image of staySICK staySICK
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Screw nominating comments, can I nominate a whole thread? #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @staySICK: Alas, I don't think that is the point really... But some of us now save such threads for all time at a forum we now also frequent.
    [talkamongstyourselves.freeforums.org]
    For there are often times threads evolve from one simple joke or statement into something... wonderous... #iphone
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    Image of linkthe2nd linkthe2nd
    11/06/09

    @D-K, a burning sensation: Thank god we live in this time. #iphone
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    11/06/09


    @Hardcore: Did someone say shenanigans? #iphone
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    Image of Asbestos_Underwear Asbestos_Underwear
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    It's not a feature, it's a bug!

    The silliest excuse I heard in a long time AND an inverted proverb. Fool me twice shame on Bush. #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @Asbestos_Underwear: Now now, let's give them the benefit of the doubt here...

    Maybe they used some virus/illegal software as the basis for their software as they were so poor at programming it themselves?

    Maybe they outsourced to teenage hackers?

    Maybe they're just complete idiots, who managed to program their software to do this by complete chance? #iphone
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): MAYBE SOMEONE HACKED THEIR MAINFRAME AND REROUTED ALL THEIR FIREWALLS THROUGH THE GIGACHIP.

    I'll admit, I don't know 'technology', but that's possible, right? #iphone
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    Image of BGSS BGSS
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: It's very possible, gigachips have poor security. #iphone
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    Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) promoted this comment BGSS was starred BGSS was unstarred
    Image of ThatGuyOverThere ThatGuyOverThere
    11/06/09

    @BGSS: They should have gotten a Gibson. They're much harder to hack, unless your name is Joey. Or Dade. Or Emanual. Or Kate. Or... you know what? Never mind. Just shoot these bastards for mining personal data. #iphone
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    11/06/09

    @ThatGuyOverThere: +1 for Hackers reference!! #iphone
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    Image of FeatherNET - Live in Canada FeatherNET - Live in Canada
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: Oh god, you're awesome. +1 #iphone
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    Image of nipsen nipsen
    09/08/09

    In reply to Commodore 64, Now On iPhone
    Meanwhile, UIQ and S60 owners have been able to play c64 games for several years. SCUMM, that runs on various systems, can emulate all the LucasArts games - Day of the Tentacle, for example, with full voice over - as well as games like Beneath a Steel Sky.

    Of course. This doesn't get front page treatment.. due to no official looking press- releases turning up to declare this a grand new retro- wave in mobile gaming history, I guess?

    Shame, isn't it.
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    Image of Retroman Retroman
    09/08/09

    @nipsen:
    Ah yes, Scumm. One of the reasons i jailbroke my iphone 3gs was so i could run scumm on it. I was playing simon the sorceror before they re-released it on the app store.
    Ah Simon, i remember you on the CD32, happy happy days.
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    Image of ISD ISD
    09/08/09

    @nipsen: SCUMM means instant victory on whichever device it works with :)
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    nipsen promoted this comment ISD was starred ISD was unstarred
    Image of nipsen nipsen
    09/10/09

    @ISD: Agreed.

    (..though specially if there is money and drm involved, apparently. For anyone who happens not to know what ScummVM is, it is an emulation engine of the Scumm scripting language over documented and free system- libraries. Thus allowing it to be easily ported across just about any platform.

    But, due to "restrictions", this brilliant piece of software cannot actually be installed legally on quite a number of mobile devices, including the psp and the iPhone.

    This naturally is the case for numerous retro- platforms not in sale any longer. But thanks to this, even in the case of ScummVM, where the copy-right holders are indeed assisting the ScummVM- teams by for example giving out brilliant games like Beneath a Steel Sky for free - it remains an obscurity.

    Of course, this is naturally of no consequence to corporate gaming lovers eager to start their own portable application store - out of charity to their customers. And obviously love for gaming. Since changing software policies slightly is in fact, evil. As corporate HQ will be happy to tell you.

    This unfortunate story glimmers in it's absence on the frontpages of major gaming news sites - although we are of course always happy to read about how someone makes a profit off other community projects - such as with the iPhone c64 packaging. Warms my heart indeed. Surely, this is the dawn of a new gaming platform. Jolly good).
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    Image of HoldenCaballa HoldenCaballa
    09/08/09

    In reply to Commodore 64, Now On iPhone
    It's been pulled again.
    Read here:

    http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/08/apple-pulls-c64-app-after-manomio-shenanigans-revealed.../
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