Some will cheer, others will groan, but it seems that the love-it-or-hate-it Facebook game, FarmVille, is on its way to iPhone and iPad. A recent search of domains has uncovered both farmvilleiphone.com and farmvilleipad.com, both reserved by the same company currently overseeing Zynga’s official FarmVille website. This means that sooner or later, we’ll probably be seeing official clients for Apple’s mobile devices. Read more…

Developer Tommy Refenes has attracted the attention of a substantial number of his developer peers this weekend. Refenes’ game “Zits & Giggles” was yanked from the App Store a few days ago without the developer receiving any word from Apple as to why the pimple-popping game for the iPhone and iPod Touch was dumped. Read more…

An anonymous source close to Namco told PocketGamer that “the game is being finished up and it plays rather nicely”. Currently, the most valid hypothesis seems to be a port of Tekken 6 available for PSP but has not yet been confirmed.

With competitor Capcom having just announced Street Fighter IV for iPhone, Namco’s move with Tekken is a logical one. While Capcom will present Street Fighter IV for iPhone next week at Game Developers Conference, Namco made it clear that Tekken won’t be shown during GDC. Namco didn’t confirm or deny the existence of the game, they just said they don’t have any plans for Tekken next week.

Renowned illustrator Kyle T. Webster took a detour in 2009 from illustrating for clients like The New Yorker, Time and The Wall Street Journal. He spent ten months designing and developing an iPhone game with the hopes that it would not only be a fun diversion for those who play it, but that it would also help them improve their powers of short term memory. Read more…

Tap Tap Revenge 3 has been updated with many improvements to the quality and stability of the popular game for iPhone and iPod touch.

With more than 15 million downloads, Tap Tap Revenge is by far the most popular game on the iPhone and iPod touch. Tap Tap Revenge 3 is the first major game to tap into the App Store’s new in-app commerce capabilities to offer a catalog of great music from top artists. Read more…

Ask any Sega fan and he or she will tell you – this one is long overdue. The official (and by “official,” we mean sanctioned by the video game maker) Sega emulator is headed for theiPhone next month. Sega’s Ultimate Genesis will take vintage video game lovers on a stroll down memory lane with this new offering that has excited gaming enthusiasts young and old – but mostly old.

From USA Today:

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In what will likely be the first of many Gameloft games released this month, Driver [App Store] appeared out of nowhere this evening. Originally previewed at the Gameloft press event in Paris a few weeks ago, Driver is a nearly complete port of the 1999 PC and Playstation game with only very minor omissions. (Notably the original’s extensive instant replay editing system.) The graphics have been revamped, the interface has been completely re-worked to be finger-friendly, but otherwise the game is the same as the original.

Via toucharcade.com

Gameloft has posted a video trailer for their upcoming iPhone game entitled, Bridge Odyssey.

Join 9 wild characters on a journey so big, they’re going to need all your support! Help the Dodo, Bison, Giraffe and others on their trek to the Lost World by building bridges over ruined passes, bottomless pits and molten volcanoes.

The game is due to be released in December.

FEATURES:
POINT, TOUCH, PLAY!
Use your creativity and skill to build bridges simply by drawing with your finger on the touch screen.

NINE COOL CHARACTERS
A light-hearted atmosphere with a funny and highly stylized animal gang including the Dodo, Fox, Parrot, Mammoth, Squirrel, Bison, Cat, Walrus and Giraffe.

IT’S A WILD WORLD
Discover 48 levels across 6 different environments: Tropical island, volcano, ancient ruins, desert, jungle and an ice cave

IMAGINE ANY SOLUTION
Make full use of the game’s physics and environments to solve puzzles. Use bamboo stalks or vines, and even the sun to succeed!

Via iclarified.com

SEGA has submitted Super Monkey Ball 2, a much improved sequel to the popular iPhone game, to the App Store for approval.

According to IGN, SEGA teamed up with Other Ocean to work on the project. One of the main goals was to improve accelerometer based control which was a major complaint in the first version.
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