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Article: iPhone Gems: Zombies, Price is Right, Adventure, Racing + More
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — As the App Store continues to mature, the number of bona fide good and great games will hopefully keep on growing. This week, rather than rounding up a variety of bad, okay, and worthwhile games in one genre, we tried to seek out some really great ones in a wide collection of genres, and partially succeeded. Though we cover nine different genres in today’s nine games, the vast majority of them are actually worth checking out. [image] Our big picks of the week are Burning Monkey Casino, The Price is Right, and Zombie Attack!, but you’ll find a lot of interesting new titles here clamoring for your dollars. A few good free titles are also included, as well. [image] ...

First Look: Fastlane Street Racing
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, iPod touchWhen I showed this to my brother he remarked that it looked almost as good as any PSP game. Featuring a ton of cars, tracks and simple gameplay, Fastlane Street Racing (App Store link) is the best racer I've played on the iPhone. Each track is incredibly detailed and appears very large to boot. If there's only one weak point it's the audio. While passable, the engine noises could possibly be better. That said, they are dynamic (and change if you go into a tunnel or change speed, etc.) and it's likely this was the only way to make them so. The key to the game is drifting -- either turning ...

The Second Generation of iPhone Gaming Is Here
Touch Podium — It’s a given that any new platform goes though its initial stage of growing pains.  Developers, new to the platform, struggle not only with learning to program on it, but ultimately with learning the finer points of programming on it — the little tips, tricks and secrets that can turn a mediocre project into a fantastic one.  The iPhone SDK debuted at the end of March of this year to great fanfare, and experienced developers like Pangea, Sega, and others, were able to churn out some pretty good stuff — oh hell, let’s face it, we were all looking for the drool bibs before the App Store opened for business. But with time and ...