It’s been a busy, busy week on iMore, and this time the iOS headlines have been dominated by news from ostensibly competing conferences — BlackBerry Live and Google I/O. The main conversation topic this week was cross platform messaging from BlackBerry and Google both, though also making the headlines was Google’s answer to Game Center, [...]
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Week in review: Google and BlackBerry go iOS, 50 billion app downloads, and more!
Posted by ryan on May 19th, 2013
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod 
Tags: Cloud Player, Game Center, Google Maps, Google Play 
8 Comments »Google takes on Game Center with Google Play game services
Posted by ryan on May 16th, 2013
A significant announcement for game developers emerged from the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco this morning: Google officially launched Google Play game services, a framework to help facilitate social play, cloud-based storage of saved games and multiplayer gameplay. What’s more, they’re taking it to iOS – a challenge to Apple’s own Game Kit frameworks, [...]
Respawnables update brings weaponry, gadgets and costumes from Men in Black and Ghostbusters
Posted by ryan on May 6th, 2013
Respawnables from Digital Legends by way of Zynga has received a pretty hefty update to version 1.5, that brings with it a bunch of new content including weapons from Men in Black and Ghostbusters. Through partnering with Sony Mobile and Sony Pictures, players can now get their hands on a Noisy Cricket or a Ghostbusters [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Game Center, Noisy Cricket, Proton Gun, Sony Pictures Comments OffForget iOS 7, it's Hollywood Super suits that need a texture intervention
Posted by ryan on April 12th, 2013
While many people are no doubt ecstatic that newly appointed head of all human interface at Apple, Jon Ive, is reportedly walking through iOS 7 with a sandblaster, stripping out overly heavy skins and skeuomorphic design elements, one look at the just-released Man of Steel publicity photo above makes me think it’s really Hollywood that [...]
Mittens for iPhone and iPad review: Meet Disney's new feline-powered puzzler
Posted by ryan on April 11th, 2013
Mittens is a new physics-based puzzle game by Disney where you must help Mittens the cat travel the world to collect milk, balloons, and other gifts to give to Mia, the girl cat he’s in love with you. Collecting these gifts is no easy feat for Mittens; he must fly through the air, slide across [...]
How to recommend games to friends with Game Center
Posted by ryan on March 29th, 2013
For most users, Game Center is all about matching up with friends and competing for rankings and checking out leaderboards. It’s not much fun though if you don’t have anyone to play against. If you’ve found a particularly cool multiplayer game in the App Store that you think a friend would like, Game Center makes [...]
How to initiate a multiplayer game through Game Center on iPhone and iPad
Posted by ryan on March 27th, 2013
The whole point of Game Center is to play online with friends and compete for leaderboard rankings. While you can start multiplayer games and challenge friends from within some games, you can also initiate multiplayer games from within Game Center itself. Here’s how: Launch the Game Center app from the Home screen of your iPhone [...]
How to view leaderboards, achievements, and more with Game Center on iPhone and iPad
Posted by ryan on March 25th, 2013
If you play a lot of multiplayer games on your iPhone or iPad and have a Game Center account, you can easily create matches and play against your friends. Game Center is also great for tracking achievements inside a game as well as leaderboard standings between you and your friends. Not sure how to access [...]
How to accept Game Center friend requests on iPhone and iPad
Posted by ryan on March 24th, 2013
If you have an iPhone or iPad, you’ve got Game Center. Once you log in, you’re ready to start playing games with other opponents. You can share your Game Center ID with others and receive invites to become friends. From there you can view each other’s achievements and challenge each other to games. If you [...]
How to remove a friend from Game Center on iPhone and iPad
Posted by ryan on March 22nd, 2013
If you use Game Center to play a lot of multiplayer games, you may start accumulating a lot of friends. If you start getting too many requests or just want to clean up your Game Center friends list a little, it’s actually a pretty easy task. Here’s how: Launch the Game Center app from the [...]
