Video: Epic demoes Unreal Engine 3 running on the iPhone

The iPhone is already touted for its gaming prowess almost endlessly, but it looks like things are about to take a pretty big leap forward. Epic Games has been crackin’ away at an iPhone port of their Unreal Engine 3 — the engine that powers such jaw-droppingly beautiful games as BioShock, Mirror’s Edge, Gears of [...]

Gears of War: The Gearsiverse Liveblog [Comic-con 09]

All things Gears of War will be discussed at today’s Gears of War: The Gearsiverse panel, featuring Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson, just for starters. We’re in the hall, livebloggin our little hearts out. Dude and Rod will be joined by Gears of War movie scriptwriter Chris Morgan, Gears of War comic book [...]

Half of Next-Gen Console Owners Are Playing on Standard-Def TVs [Gaming]

It’s easy for those of us with HDTVs to forget that not everyone has them yet. And Epic’s Mark Rein’s stat that over half of Gears of War 2 players played it on an SDTV really brings that home. If you’re wondering why Microsoft and Sony are going to drag this current generation of consoles [...]

Microsoft Patents Drop-In Co-Op In Shooters [Patents]

Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned the maker of the Xbox 360 and publisher of Gears of War the feature to offer seamless switching from solo to co-op gaming in squad-based shooters. The patent, #7,559,834 was invented by James York of Austin, Texas and filed back in the original Xbox era [...]

Roundup: VCs more confident, Apple patents future iPhone ideas

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Here’s the latest action:
Confidence is coming back among venture capitalists — So says the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index, which measures the mood among dozens of well-known VCs.
Facebook sued for click fraud — RootZoo says its own analytics show discrepancies over how many Facebook users clicked on RootZoo’s ads.

Gawker says ad revenue up 35 percent [...]

New iPhone patent applications: Object identification, face recognition, messaging tweaks, more

About 50 rungs further down the innovation ladder, some new Apple patent applications revealed this morning are definitely less interesting and complex than the few we covered last week. In fact, considering some of the technology has already existed for quite some time we’re not even sure why Apple is attempting to patent a few [...]