Atinco America has announced the release of Domino Touch HD 1.1, an update to their classic dominoes game exclusively for the iPad. Featuring detailed, high definition graphics, Domino Touch HD is an iPad-only version of their best-selling Domino Touch for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game supports play against 1 – 3 virtual players whose tiles are hidden. Graphical refinements include animated dealing of tiles, marble tiles with inlaid pips, green felt domino table, and autorotation. Other gameplay refinements are sound effects, automatic scoring at the end of each round, score displays for each player, and game limits of 100, 250 or 500 points.

Popular throughout the world, and especially in Latin America, dominoes is played at the professional level in official tournaments and championship matches. Dominoes is a blocking game, where the goal is to play as many tiles as possible Read the full story

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Patently Apple has sniffed out the latest, and most comprehensive, trademark registration acquired by Apple on the subject of the iPhone and we thought we’d have a peek. Already entitled to use the brand name under international categories 9 (mobile phone and digital audio player) and 38 (electronic data-transmitting device), Apple has now added category 28, which reads shortly and sweetly as a ‘handheld unit for playing electronic games.’ Before you freak out and start fusing this Read the full story

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Game Developer Research says that Apple is winning the race among handheld game developers: 19 percent write now for the iPhone and iPod touch. That’s more than double the amount of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP developers. Other interesting figures:

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Star Wars: Trench Runfor the iPhone gets you into Luke’s multitouch underpants, so you can blow up the Death Star while Darth Vader and a thousand TIE Fighters chase you. And, apparently, you can play on the Empire’s side:

Looks nice in the screenshots, but remember that the $5Star Wars Trench Run is one of those games that has special graphics features if you run it on the iPhone 3GS. You know, because everybody knows the Force is stronger in that one.

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Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.

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