S3 Games Dev Blog

We have finally released an update of Elevens for the iPhone that addresses the iOS4 issues some customers where having as well as adding some new improvements to the app.

Changes include:-

• Added device rotation ability
• Added quit game option from pause menu
• Reduced memory requirements
• Improved performance
• Updated to latest OpenFeint version
• Fixed iOS4 issues

You can grab your copy now from iTunes or find out more about the game from our website.

Yep, seems our CSS file (Cascading Style Sheet) for our site got corrupted somehow and our site looked kinda ugly. It is now fixed (thankful for regular backups) and the site should not look and navigate properly. Sorry for the ugliness

I apologies for the lack of content and posting here recently. It’s been a fairly crazy time over the last few months with a new project starting up and an existing project getting a re-define (more on that in a future post) so there hasn’t been much time left in the middle for posting and socialising.

One of the benefits of teaming up with a bigger games company is that we have the opportunity to work on bigger projects and put way more work into updating some of our existing titles, but there are also drawbacks too.

One main drawback is because we are working on bigger projects, there isn’t as much to say as often, and add to that any NDA’s or other specifics we cant talk abut yet, we are left with long gaps between posts about what we are all doing here and often find we are not at liberty to share much info.

But all that said, we are working very hard on some very cool things. One of the most important of them is cross platform opportunities for some of our existing and future titles, so a lot of time is being spent on that front. What does cross platform mean? Well consoles might come into play here

We are also starting to sell our games on other game portals, and the first title to hit the gates is StuntMANIA over at GamersGate on both Mac and PC (Excuse the pun). We will be posting more info about other portals soon, so stay tuned.

Stop reading this blog post, get off your computer or mobile device and go spend some time with your family or friends!

I have to be honest and admit I have always been a Sony fan… PS2, PS3, PSP… but when the XBox360 came out I decided to give it a go (well to be honest, I wanted to play GOW) but after setting it up and playing with it once, we were burgled and my 360 was stolen. Funnily, my PS3 was left behind!

When my insurance replaced my 360, I decided to sell it unopened rather than open it and use it. Why? That’s very easy to answer:-

It was LOUD, and it ran REALLY HOT and it was also LOUD…. VERY LOUD!

I swore that day that as much as I would like to play a 360, I would never own one again until MS fixed the LOUD HEAT issues… so I dug in and prepared to wait many years until the XBox 720 (or whatever it will be called) hit the streets, hoping that MS would learn from their nuclear 360 atrocity and make a console that didn’t heat my house at 150dB

So when I was shown the new 360 online today by a colleague and I read on the XBox.com website that it’s WHISPER QUIET… I think deep down inside something went *tick* and now I think I might be going out to get a new Sleek 360… Once I stand next to one running first to see if it is whisper quiet…. what? You think I would just trust MS on a whim? Hahahaha…

This wont mean the end of my PS3 though… My PS3 is the media centre hub of our house… and I am sure it wont mind sharing some cabinet space with my new XBox