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Here in the UK the American election race doesn’t seem to be bothering anyone. We have the classically relaxed view of, “let’s just wait and see what happens”. In America however, everyone is going a bit batty over Obama, McCain and the “pitbull” Palin. And what better way to capitalise on this entire furore? An iPhone election race game, of course.

The Guitar Hero franchise has been going strong for a couple of years now, and the success of Guitar Hero III Mobile has brought the announcement of Guitar Hero World Tour (mobile), from publisher Activison.

The game that’s had PC users panties in a twist for a couple of days now has finally been released on the Apple App Store, four days later than expected, but it will still ride on the wave of last Fridays PC version launch.
The iPhone version costs a rather enticing £5.99, and like the mobile [...]

Not to long ago, Sony announced they were putting together a keyboard peripheral for its PSP, but as time has gone by and there is still no sign, bored modders have fashioned a working keyboard from Xbox 360’s chatpad.
Web browsing on the PSP sounded awesome when it was fist announced but – and I’m going [...]

You would have hoped this was on Sony’s cards for a while, but its taken till now to announce a new direct access online shop for the PSP.
Although it’s not a direct rip-off of the iPhone App Store, it’s fair to presume it was influenced by the idea.
So what’s new? Well the main selling point [...]

Cesc Fabregas was signed last week…by Gameloft to promote their new game Real Football 2009.
Details of the game have finally been released and it’s looking rather promising. You can choose from over 200 clubs to play including national teams, in six different leagues, in six different stadiums including the San Siro in Italy, and Old [...]

The iPhone, all things considered, has become a pretty solid gaming platform. With the recent release of the ambitious title Spore, TouchArcade has decided to look in to the hardware side of the device and unearthed a very familiar looking peripheral from Belkin.
It looks like a PSP. I’m just putting it out there. The JoyPod [...]

Developers Staffan and Thomas Kjellberg have scooped one of the top prizes in Google’s Android Developer Challenge, with their innovative game: Softrace.
The competition was launched to stimulate application development for the new platform. Ten prizes of $275,000 were awarded, and ten further ‘runner-up’ $100,000 prizes were won.
Softrace was the only game in the first category. [...]