Is the game afoot at Apple?
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And it’s yet another foray into the exciting world of Apple and gaming. A couple of game-related stories came out this week, but don’t go putting your Wii or Xbox 360 up on eBay just yet.
First, last Thursday, Download Squad broke a story point out that iTunes contains strings that mention game support for the iPhone.
Whilst we admittedly couldn’t find any strings directly related to the implementation of a U.K. iTunes Video store, two strings certainly caught our eyes:/* ===== iPhone Game Item Strings ===== */
“4329.001″ = “Are you sure you want to remove the selected game from your iPhone?”;
“4329.002″ = “Are you sure you want to remove the selected games from your iPhone?”;
Maybe this sounds awfully familiar—and it should. Back in March, when the Apple TV shipped, some sites dug through the same strings to find “evidence” of Apple TV games. Which have not yet materialized.
Now, it would be unparalleled idiocy to argue that games will never come to the Apple TV or the iPhone: that’s a bet that’s pretty much impossible to win. And indeed, the iPhone would seem like a great potential platform for games, or at least third-party developers seem to think.
Fortunately, this leads directly into our next gaming story.
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