If you’re similarly super stoked for Battleheart Legacy’s release this week and the wait until Wednesday was killing you… Guess what, you’re in for a treat. For whatever reason, it’d seem that Mika Mobile decided to launch the game a day earlier than we all expected. It’s available in the New Zealand App Store now, which presumably means it’ll appear in the US market at 11:00 PM Eastern tonight?
It’s totally, totally possible that this is a super-brief soft launch and the game won’t be available everywhere else until the normal time tomorrow… So we’ll just have to see what happens tonight. I grabbed it from the New Zealand store, and plan on playing it this afternoon on Twitch, so keep an eye out for that.
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I feel like I always get excited that Apple will announce a bunch of gaming related stuff at these, and inevitably, I end up disappointed. Hoping there's at least SOMETHING about games at the keynote. Better Game Center, more controller stuff, games on Apple TV, etc
I heard they doing away with Game Center.. :/
From what I've heard, they might get rid of the standalone Game Center app, but I can't imagine they'd get rid of Game Center altogether. GC definitely could use some improvements though!
I have to agree with you Jared. Apple needs a gamer in charge of Game Center. I'm sure that would help getting the improvements that Game Center needs.
Will they talk about MC5:D
Or will that be E5
E3. Why would apple talk about mc5 if they don't own it?
These guys are always some of the most pretentious people on the planet....
why isnt wwdc livestream up yet?
cool, app bundles!
will it kill the reliance on heavy discount sales though?
I was wondering if this'll mean the Humble Bundle finally makes it to iOS.
Anyone know the iOS 8 features?
Off the top of my head:
Third party widgets in notification centre.
Improved notification centre.
Improved spotlight search - with web searches and pictures directly in the search as you type.
3rd party keyboard support.
Continuity - looks really cool if you have a mac. Let's you start a document or email on one device and pick it up on another.
Air drop from iOS to mac.
iCloud now with accessible folder structure.
New super-fast graphics engine.
Improved photo editing.
Probably a bunch of other things I forgot.
And it only took them til IOS 8 to do quick reply to texts.
Everything that Android's had for years.
Wow, that metal graphics engine was pretty amazing.
Does anyone know if Metal affects a7 devices only? I missed the stream...
So as cool as Swift looked and as awesome as it will be for developers, I wish they had talked about some rules with regards to app submission. Something to discourage all of the shit we get assaulted with on the AppStore. With Swift now, I can only see the shit apps increasing.
I can't imagine much of a change from what it is now. Anyone who is willing to learn Swift, probably would have had all the motivation to create a crappy app without it.
Still fewer shit apps than Android...
Yeah, keep holding onto that fanboyism. Everything announced today is what Android has had for years-metal aside.
I didn't realise Android had Application Continuity.
Looking forward to see how Swift and Metal will improve iOS gaming.. all the new updates iOS8 for consumers and developers is exciting
Swift is just a new language, the content is up to the content makers themselves not the programmer. Swift wont change anything for the end user, it'll just simplify the developers work and require less development & debugging time.
If only
a7 devices didn't cost so much.
When is iOS 8 releasing?
This autumn.
Usually in October.
Same old stuff, new iOS for iPads and macs. Nothing that great and yes I am including the metal "crap" since I am not a dedicated gamer and was hoping for more innovations. Guess apple has no more of them...
To be fair, real "innovations" are few and far between on every platform, not just Apple. That buzz word really bugs me since people rarely apply it properly and use it to describe quickly tossed aside gimmicks and useless functions.
This is a gaming site.....
Yeah so? Don't think apple develops any gaming apps and thus my that definition should be removed. I think what I said above is very true. So at least try to add to the conversation than an off the cuff remark.
And with all these others items like Health and Homekit, I have one word. Hackers. When hackers start hacking the code, I don't think people will like their info and/or house to be open to all. They had best make it very security proof (doubtful) before rolling it out. Oh sure everyone will like the ability to turn off items but less so when people can get into the house and take items.
An off the cuff remark that is fairly accurate. This is a gaming site, which will be primarily concerned with the gaming improvements in iOS.
And Metal is a big deal for gamers, just because you think it's crap, doesn't mean everyone does.
I'm more excited about Swift to be honest
Well there's very little to keep customers interested. Of course it's full of developer stuff, but otherwise this was a letdown. No widgets, no splitscreen, no killer features for unhealthy people. And no redisign to the style that was designed to specifically appeal to teenage girls.
And one of the world's smartest companies doesn't care that OS X 10.10 is so not mathematically correct. Steve Jobs would go ballistic if he knew about this. So maybe they'll call it OS X 11, which also makes no sense because X is the Roman numeral for 10. Only versions that start with a ten should have the X in front. Oh, and Steve Jobs would also have a fit that that his glorious dock, which he improved throughout his career, has been changed back to the 2005 version.
But Steve would hate all of iOS 7. Not because it's "modern," I'm sure he would've adapted to the current, flat style. However, iOS 7 and OS X are not fully modern, they still have a ton of skeuomorphism. It's like an ugly mix between everything and it comes out really ugly. That's all I have to say, not the best WWDC for me.
Do have to agree with you. Had very little for consumers, if any. Don't see US as a big health craze nut. Sure their are overweight people but don't think that will sell more apple products. Not one "oh man have to have it" item in the list.
world wide DEVELOPERS conference.
Seriously? You're complaining because you don't understand that 10.10 is a perfectly valid version number because version numbering is nothing to do with maths.
I hate to break it to you, but 10.10.10.10 would e valid too.