Can iPhone Become a Gaming Platform?

July 31st, 2007

It’s a smartphone. It’s an iPod. It’s Apple’s iPhone — and its making room on deck for video games. One of the top casual-game publishers just stepped aboard the iPhone express, and analysts are saying the move might lead to other developers climbing on board.On Monday, PopCap Games launched a custom version of its flagship game Bejeweled for the iPhone. If that’s not enough to excite iPhone-toting gamers, perhaps the price tag will turn some heads: Bejeweled is available at no cost.

“We’re excited to be providing the most popular puzzle game of the 21st century to users of the most advanced mobile device yet created,” Andrew Stein, director of mobile platforms at PopCap, said in a statement. “We wanted to give the hundreds of thousands of iPhone users a fun, fast gaming fix — and at no cost, no less.”

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