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Dexter On The iPhone

Everyone’s favourite sociopathic killer is coming to an iPhone near you. Hopefully the game will let you do everything that happens in the show: examine crime scenes, eviscerate serial killer and speak with a creepy monotone.

Quite how the game play will work is a mystery to me. Does Dexter chop off different parts of his victim according to your touch screen gestures? If it’s anything as bloody as the TV show, you certainly wouldn’t want to play it on public, bus journeys are annoying enough without having to glimpse graphic violence on a fellow passenger’s iPhone.

Here’s the clip, courtesy of  IGN

Metal Gear Solid Touch For The iPhone Screenshots

Metal Gear Solid Touch will be available from the App store from March the 19th. Surely this is one of the most anticipated games since Super Monkey Ball. As you can see from the screen shots however, the game is a first person shooter a world apart from the 3rd person stealth game that made MGS so popular. Although it is still part of the popular franchise, many MGS fans may be disappointed as it really just a standard shoot-em-up but with MGS characters and locations. Here’s what MGS fans would ideally want to see on an iPhone:

Unfortunately here’s the reality:

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Card Counting App Lets You Beat The House

The Blackjack Card Counter may be the latest down loadable iPhone app but that’s hasn’t stopped it being controversial.

Shuffle analysis and card counting techniques have been around for as long as there have been casinos but what is illegal is using technology to assist you.

The card counter technology lets the user illegally up their chances of beating the house in a game of Blackjack by predicting when a winning hand will come up.

The software was developed by Webtopia, an Australian development company based in Cairns.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board were first warned about the new app from Californian gambling regulators and have since issue a memo to all casinos in the state.

However, the app first came to the attention of casinos when croupiers in India spotted someone using the software.

So, if you fancy your chances at the gaming tables, there’s a YouTube video detailing how the app works.

[Source - Sydney Morning Herald]

Most Ambitious iPhone App Yet?

ICS Mobile, the pioneers in ad-funded mobile applications, are releasing their location-based iTag Live game on the iPhone next week.

iTag lets you use the iPhone’s GPS to find opponents, your camera to tag them and conference calls to chat to your team mates. Up to eight people can play at once and the game is 3G and Wi-Fi enabled – this is tag but not as we know it.

The game’s developer has uploaded a whole load of Youtube tutorials showing iPhone users how to play the game. If you’re still a little unclear as to how it works, pay a visit to the iTag Nation website; it’s fast becoming the focal point for the game’s growing community of followers.

The game is set to be free to download but, as is usually the case with these things, there’s the option of upgrading to a premium paid service.

We can look forward to Facebook integration, personal team rankings, “accelerometer activated grenade throws”, and game formats including a “free for all” mode.

Casino cash games on the Android

Groundbreaking new casino software that’s Android compatible takes our expectations of mobile gaming and blows them out of the water. A bit like Arnie, Sly or Van Damme.

The games, from gaming solutions company Spin3, are fully interactive and powered by Micro Gaming software. Favourites like Blackjack, Rouletter and 3 Card Poker all operate on web-based applications. So there’s no awkward software downloading.

These new interactive games are Android G1 compatible, another first. The better picture quality on Google’s mobile internet along with the touch-screen capabilites of the G1 make for a gaming experience that’s second to none.

The games range from the Java formats; used to run the roulette and 3 card poker table games.

The casino experience is made all the more authentic by the inclusion of slot machine games. The Treasure Nile game for instance lets you play for real money on your handset. The first development of its kind. The starting jackpot of £40,000 is accumulated from player deposits.

The  play for money button, inherent with this new breed of casino games, has an obvious danger. You could get carried away whilst in the gambling zone and run up a steep set of  bills.  Kids, unaware of the real money involved, could inadvertently gamble away all of mummy and daddy’s money at the roulette table.

Remember folks, the house always wins.

Check out the Spin3 website for full video footage of the gambling action.