Apple moves to the cloud (maybe), the iPhone 5 is delayed until all 2011 (maybe), Final Cut coming to NAB (maybe) and this episode goes out a week late (definitely.) Also, a great ad from Apple.
Rovio as a good and bad week, Hobo with a Shotgun brings the 80′s arcade goodness, GameLoft is cloning WoW, Nintendo does or doesn’t hate indie, and Bulletstorm is a redneck supermodel. All on this episode of the Fruitygamer podcast!
The ground shook, Hell froze over and Chip bought an iPad 2. He gives his impressions, including the overall zippiness of the device, the crapitude of the onboard cameras, and the awesomeness that is Flipboard.
We also covered new versions of Infinity Blade and Dead Space for iOS, the arty Sword and Sworcery (due in a week), and gave our impressions of iOS 4.3. A lengthy digression about Twitter and SXSW finally ended up with what we’ve been playing, which ranges from a running app to an over the top sociopathic killfest. Fun!
Technical difficulties nearly felled the podcast this week, but your favourite Mac gaming nerds soldiered on, discussing the new iPad, the potential of Airplay to usurp the console space, why the Sony NGP is “dead on arrival,” and why the iPad might be the best gaming system ever. At least according to one developer at GDC.
After a long absence due to work, moving, and other dull real-life nonsense, Fruitygamer is back in the saddle, now with added Chip from The Two Minute Time Lord. With a third person throwing around opinions and speculating on Apple mysteries the podcast is longer and better and will likely be coming out a whole lot more regularly. We’ve also decided to stick with audio only, as video is (at this point) too much work for too little payoff.
note: I refer to Dead Island as “Undead Island” throughout the podcast. I am dumb.
topics of discussion in this episode:
-New Macbook Pros!
-iPad 2!
-OS X Lion!
-Minecraft for iOS!
Dead (not Undead) Island’s awesome trailer!
Todd is playing Grimm
Chip is playing TG16 Emulator for iPhone
Warren just finished Dead Space 2
Our first episode shot on my new iPhone 4 wherein Todd and Warren discuss media creation, replacing your Xbox 360 with Boot Camp, the Verizon iPhone, and much much more!
note: the sound on this episode could be better, but hey, it was shot on an iPhone 4. 
On a very special FruityGamer, Todd and Warren examine the best and worst of iPhone, iPad and Mac gaming in 2010 and hold forth on the future of Apple gaming come 2011. Come back in 2012 and tell us how wrong we were, but in the meantime, listen to our trenchant observations and savvy insights.
Holiday cheer and general merriment abound as the boys cover World of Goo on the iPad, EA’s iOS fire sale, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the iPhone, the confusing and pointless Playstation app, predictions for 2011, and Doctor Who: Mazes of Time. Neat!
No video this week, due to weak internet capabilities in China. Next week, quite possibly some video.
After a week’s delay, the boys are back to cover Infinity Blade, the iPad 2, Google vs. Apple, the future of publishing, and Angry Birds. Also, achievement whoring.
Note: no video this week, China’s bandwidth is somewhat lacking. Solutions are being looked into by top men.
