Rock.Paper.Shotgun's Alec Meer writes:
"Is the iPhone 3G actually the portable PC?
The question is whether it accompanies PC gaming or threatens it. I rather suspect the former, for the practical issues of squinting and jabbing at a small screen for extended periods if nothing else. In either case, if iPhone gaming does explode over the next few months, does it count as PC gaming? If, say, Dwarf Fortress or Trials 2 came out for it, should RPS post about it? I honestly don't know, and I guess I won't until if and when the ubiquity's sufficient to force us to decide.
Again, in many ways it's a closed platform, the absolute antithesis of what we most love about the PC as a gaming machine – but it nevertheless shares many of the same values and concepts. Sure, PDAs and smartphones have been taking those same values and concepts into truly portable form for some time now, but the prospect of this becoming so much more widely-owned a platform means that much more of the industry will develop for it. Equally though, there's every chance that endless gimmickery, lazy ports and typically harsh Apple restrictions could kill its gaming potential stone dead. Interesting times either way."
GSC Game World has shared a new gorgeous trailer of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, as well as a few screenshots.
Thank you Xbox for saving this game from development Hell.
This is what contributing to gaming looks like.
Keep doing this. THIS is good for competition. *This* is good for all gamers, regardless of platform.
"The Jyväskylä-based (Finland) indie games developer Act Normal Games today announced with great delight and thrill that their isometric post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure “Rauniot“, is now available PC (via Steam, GOG, and GMG." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The game, which has launched in early access, has been in development for years with more than 3,000,000 wishlists on Steam.
I look forward to playing Crysis on this "New PC" rofl. Seriously though why is it that every gadget that comes out automatically gets compared to the PC ? My £70 phone can do pretty much everything the Iphone can do, it just doesn't do it as "prettily" or as "expensively" and I certainly wouldn't consider my phone to be a PC. I dunno call me a radical but I don't think the PC format has anything to worry about with regard to the Iphone. I look forward to the next story which will be "does the board game Monopoly threaten PC gaming".
PC=Piece of Crap
isn't a portable pc now known as a laptop?
want this phone :(
but i got verizon.
This article is extremely stupid. The iPhone isn't a threat to anything other than Palm devices. Nobody buy an iPhone to play games, they buy it to surf the web, gaming is just a secondary function.