Mecho Wars Micro-Review: Landians Versus Wingians… Really? [Review]

Mecho Wars brings to the iPhone and iPod Touch a solid turn-based strategy title in the vein of Intelligent Systems’ Advance Wars, delivering the game with a flashy art style and interesting time twist. But loaded down with absurd design decisions that have you playing as a commander of the Wingians taking on an army of the Landians, can Mecho Wars solid design make up for its silly aesthetic?
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PlayStation Meets Apple In The Best iPhone Case We’ve Ever Seen [IPhone]

Nearly every single one of us owns an iPhone. So we see our fair share of iPhone cases
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iDive300 Waterproof Case For The iPod & iPhone
July 1, 2009 by Finster
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By Andrew Liszewski I always thought that diving itself was supposed to be an enjoyable activity, so I’m scratching my head as to why anyone would need to bring along some other form of entertainment while down there. But that’s exactly what the iDive300 deep dive waterproof case is for. It’s designed for the iPod, iPod Touch and the iPhone and allows you to watch movies or listen to music (with an included pair of over the ear speakers) at a depth of up to 300 feet underwater
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Edifier iF500 iPod/iPhone Speaker
July 1, 2009 by James
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By Andrew Liszewski My eyes usually glaze over when I come across yet another iPod/iPhone speaker dock, but there’s just something about the iF500 from Edifier that managed to pique my curiosity, and I think it might have something to do with the massive bulbous speaker clearly designed to mock subtlety. The iF500 supports various models of the iPod and iPhone via a built-in dock, but an aux input also allows you to connect anything featuring an audio output like cellphones or other MP3 players that clearly aren’t worth mentioning by name.
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Doom Resurrection: The iPhone Game That Nearly Wasn’t [Id Software]

With the rail-shooter Doom Resurrection for the iPhone hitting the App Store at any moment, Kotaku spoke to John Carmack about design decisions, multiplayer, and why the game was nearly canceled months into development. id Software ’s John Carmack is one of the masterminds behind some of the greatest first-person shooters of all time, often referred to as a father of the entire genre for his work on games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Lately, however, John has been taking id’s properties in different directions, creating a roleplaying game version of Doom and now this title, Doom Resurrection for the iPhone and iPod Touch .
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Rolando Being Pulled From App Store [Update] [IPhone]

Rolando is, at the moment anyways, the perfect example of how to an iPhone game right . Anyone who hasn’t yet sampled its delights may want to hurry, though, as the game’s about to be yanked from the App Store
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Mili Pro Is A Pocket Projector For Your iPhone
June 29, 2009 by reez
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By Chris Scott Barr iPhones and iPods can be great for watching videos, but only if a single person is trying to view them.
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Notebook Dump: Layton, Samurai Showdown, RE5 3D [Extras]

There comes a time in the week when to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? New Professor Layton : I played Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box on Monday evening during those Nintendo demos I couldn’t stop writing about in the middle of the week.
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Announcement: There Will Be No Mass Effect DLC Announcement [Mass Effect]

Earlier this week, Evil Chris on the Mass Effect Twitter channel told us to expect some ME1 DLC news by Friday. Well, Friday happened, so what’s the word? Tweeted Evil Chris yesterday : “Due to circumstances beyond my control (me being stupid on timing), any news of more ME1 DLC will have to wait
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3G Versus 3GS Game Comparison: Slooooooow Load Times [Clips]
Here’s a quick look at the load times of the iPhone 3G versus the iPhone 3GS .
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