iPhone Hacks

Native iPhone Game: Raging Thunder - Accelerometer Controlled Racing game for the iPhone

Folks at Polarbit are giving us a glimpse of their gut-churning, tire burning racing game called Raging Thunder for the iPhone by making the demo version available as a native iPhone application via the Installer.

Even though it is not completely ready, the demo version of the iPhone game is very promising.

iPhone Games - Quake 3 Arena Ported to iPhone

I have some exciting news! Folks at HermitWorks are claiming to have ported Quake 3 Arena, one of the most popular and my favorite first-person-shooter game to the iPod Touch (and so should be possible even on the iPhone).

If you don't believe it, you can checkout the impressive video of Quake 3 being played in networking mode on 2 iPod Touches and other details after the jump.

NES App: First Native iPhone Application for iPhone firmware 1.2 "Aspen" Released

I had reported last week about how iPhone hacking genius Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski had figured out a way to get the unofficial native iPhone applications to work with iPhone firmware 1.2 "Aspen" with minimal code changes and by modifying the headers.

As a proof of concept, Zdziarski had also got one of the unofficial native iPhone application Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator (NES app) running on the iPhone firmware 1.2 to demonstrate it. He has just made the NES app publicly available along with source code making it the first native iPhone application to be released for unreleased iPhone firmware 1.2.

Native iPhone Game: DOOM gets an Update

One of the most exciting news on the gaming front since the iPhone launch was to see stepwhite, an iPhone hacking guru get DOOM running on the iPhone.

psychochromatic, an iPhone hacking genius and a friend of stepwhite has picked up from where stepwhite had left by taking control of the project and he has recently released a new version of Doom with on-screen touch controls.

iPhone Hack: PlayStation Emulator for the iPhone released

One of the popular categories here at iPhone Hacks since the launch has been games for the iPhone. The reason for this has not been because Apple has been rolling out terrific games for their revolutionary gadget but due to the hard work put in by iPhone hacking geniuses who have brought us the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, the Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator and more recently ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play popular LucasArts and Sierra games on the iPhone.

The good news on the native iPhone games continues as MacNN has reported recently that one of the independent software developer, ZodTTD, has released the first public version of the Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

iPhone Hackers release ScummVM: Emulation Engine brings LucasArts and Sierra Games to iPhone

Some of the most popular native applications for the iPhone have been native iPhone games, they have generated a great deal of interest. We have already seen Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator and recently the Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator for the iPhone.

The latest emulation engine to be ported to run on the iPhone as a native application is ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play popular LucasArts and Sierra games.

iPhone Games: iPhone Hackers Release Game Boy Advance Emulator

Though we have seen a good amount of activity from the iPhone hacking community with respect to the release of native iPhone applications, we haven't seen much or any activity in the iPhone games after the release of Nintendo Emulator for the iPhone.

In fact, I just realized that it has been almost two months since I had written any article on iPhone games so the release of gpSPhone by the iPhone Hacking community is indeed welcome news to take us away (for a bit) from the series of news with regards to iPhone firmware v1.1.2 which was officially released by Apple earlier in the week.

iBlackjack: First Native Casino Game for the iPhone

If you are a game-loving iPhone owner you might have been quite disappointed to see that games did not show up in iPhone's feature list. Maybe not anymore if you like playing Blackjack as iPhone hacker McCarron has just released Alpha Release 3 of his native iPhone game aptly called "iBlackjack".

iBlackjack is the first unauthorized native casino game for the iPhone.

iPhone Games: Freeverse brings Bing Bang Sudoku to iPhone

If you are one of those casual gamers who has been addicted to Sudoku, you now have one more reason to smile for buying the iPhone.

Freeverse, the leading developer and publisher of causual game for the Mac has announced the Big Bang Sudoku for the iPhone; a month since PopCap Games, another leading developer of casual games had announced a custom version of their flagship game "Bejeweled" for iPhone.

Release Candidate 1 of Nintendo emulator for the iPhone released

The iPhone hacking community had brought the Nintendo emulator to the iPhone couple of weeks back, however, it was still early days for the iPhone hack. Nervegas has been working on enhancing it and the iPhone hacking genius who had taken stepwhite's iPhoneNES program and rewritten to make it to make it run fast has just released 0.99.00 version of the release, ready for prime-time or to put it more appropriately, Release Candidate 1 for NES emulator is now available.