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Today EA Mobile announced an iPhone version of C&C Red Alert. According to their Facebook profile, the game will be available on October 23rd and will work on all iPhone models as well as the iPod Touch.

Playable factions are limited to Soviet and Allies, with cameo appearances from Tanya and Natasha. There are fifteen levels over two campaigns, and a new “easy-to-use” combat system that is optimized for touch-screen play.

Seamless transition on Wasabi skins

During our visit to E3, we saw a variety of exhibitors whose sole business is to help you customize your portable devices.

With so many people buying handheld systems, the urge to customize and stand out from the crowd is trending upward. People want to skin their devices as a mark of pride, personal expression, or to make a statement.

We saw three standout customization exhibitors on the showfloor, and I’ll highlight all three here. In the interest of full disclosure, I will say that we have affiliate programs for both GelaSkins and MusicSkins; if you purchase through our affiliate links, you will be helping support Icrontic. We don’t engage in affiliate programs for products we don’t personally recommend, and we believe that these products are pretty damned cool.

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Yesterday at WWDC Apple talked about its new iPhone, the updated OS and showed off (or rehashed) some cool iPhone apps and hardware.  There was a lot of big news but very little surprises along the way. We’re getting a 32GB version, the camera has been improved, turn-based GPS from TomTom was announced and the new iPhone OS will let you interface with other accessories via the dock connecter or Bluetooth connections.

It sounds like some cool stuff, but as a gamer and an iPhone enthusiast addict one of the things they didn’t show was almost as interesting as what they did.  While over a billion apps have been installed onto iPhone and iPod Touches and the most significant portion of them being games, Apple still doesn’t seem to have fully embraced the gaming market as much as we had hoped. (more…)

With E3 just beginning to unfold, every gamer wonders what the future will bring. I would classify 2009 as a fairly slow year thus far. The three major consoles and two major handhelds are starting to age and, despite some renewed interest in PC gaming, we have yet to see a truly groundbreaking exclusive PC title. I fear that video gaming may have reached its peak popularity in the past couple of years.

The two major gaming stories in 2009 have been the industry’s resilience in a bad economy, and iPhone’s growth in the gaming sector. These are nice stories, but with the exception of the iPhone, all major gaming platforms seem to have reached their peak, and are starting to head slowly downhill. I think this trend all started with a disappointing E3 2008. We saw some interesting titles, but it was not exactly a year that gamers will look back on with wild fondness.
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