For just $0.99, TightWire provides endless entertainment and a fair share of heart-pounding moments. Your goal is to help the character cross the wire (strung between skyscrapers) and avoid plummeting him to the ground. The game is accelerometer-based and tests just how steady your hands are. Not only is the concept fun and original, but the graphics have also garnered quite a bit of praise. TightWire proves to be the perfect balance of thrill-seeking, humor, and solid gameplay.
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Until I started using an iPhone, I was never a fan of mobile gaming. The graphics were bad and there were no games that really grabbed my interest. Since the iPhone launched I spend a good bit of time playing games on the device.

Handmark has announced a new game for the iPhone called Astraware Casino that is actually more like 11 games in one. The app has 11 of the most popular casino games around in one place for a limited time price of 99 cents.

The app also allows the player to choose tracks from their own playlist to use as background music. Among the games offered in the app are Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit and Limit Poker, Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Slots, Baccarat, 3 Card Poker, Video Derby, and Keno. Players start the game with $1,000 virtual dollars and must win to keep playing.

[via Astraware]

Back when the original iPhone first launched I bought a case for my phone to keep it from being scratched up. I was beyond mad three weeks later when I took the case off to clean the iPhone and found that the case had caused scratches that I expected it to prevent.

Speck has announced a new line of cases that are hard on the outside and have a soft rubberized coating on the inside to prevent scratches called the CandyShell cases. The case is available in black, blue, purple, white, and pink colors with the cases having a two-tone design.

The outer shell is glossy and the cases ship with a screen protector film and a cleaning cloth. Speck promises that the wide openings in the case make the iPhone ports and controls accessible and the phone can be docked without removing it from the case. The cases retail for $34.95.

[via Speck]

Nothing, repeat nothing has frustrated me more than the famous \'Rubik\'s Cube\', rotating each of the layers in the classic 3 x 3 x 3 coloured cube. At one point I\'d worked out how to do it - in 10 minutes, only to find videos of people solving the cube in 20 seconds. xCube threatens to bring the same gameplay - and frustrations - to your iPhone. Whether this is good or bad is, of course, dependent on your point of view and state of mind!

Before going any further, it should be noted that the classic 3 x 3 x 3 cube is NOT included here, for legal reasons, a great shame. However, any existing spatial skills from the real cube are still useful, since much the same general techniques are needed here, solving 2 x 2 x 2, 4 x 4 x 4, 5 x 5 x 5 and 6 x 6 x 6 cubes. Oddly, each cube starts fully solved by default, leaving it to you to 'mess up' and then solve. This oddity becomes a little clearer when you flick the 'Timed' switch on and watch the cube become far more scrambled than if you'd been left to switch it around yourself.

Then it's into cube solving, with each layer easily draggable using the touchscreen. You can even rotate the whole cube using the iPhone's multi-touch by using two fingers to drag - it's a very intuitive 3D system. Using 'Settings', you can customise the game to suit your preferences, with replacement cube face 'stickers' and replacement background themes.

xCube continues its mature interface with unlimited undo and redo of moves (using the arrow icons at the top of the screen) and with full saving of each game state when your game session gets interrupted. The lack of the classic 3 x 3 x 3 cube is very disappointing, but perhaps enough people will buy xCube to enable to developers to pay Mr Rubik and his lawyers the appropriate license fee? I do hope so, this is otherwise a beautifully put together little game.

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Less than a year after T-Mobile and HTC released the first smart phone using Google's Android operating system, the wireless operator and the handset maker are back with a sleeker device that takes advantage of recent software updates.

We just tested Bluetooth tethering on our 3.0.1 updated iPhone and were still able to surf the Internet with no problem.

Now we're safe from MMS attacks and AT&T's inability to deliver features.

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Remember the photograph of that black bezel that was rumored to be a component in the next iPhone? When we saw that the 3GS was going to look the same as the previous model, one of the first things we wondered was what all of those new components were from. Now we know: the black bezel was actually the bezel component for an iPhone clone, the Creative Zii Egg. The device will be similar to the iPod touch, as discovered by Cnet Asia.