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Epic’s Unreal SDK for iOS brings mobile game graphics to new heights
Epic Games will be taking mobile games to a whole new level as they prepare to ship out the Unreal software development kit to iOS developers very soon. The Unreal engine will enable iPhone/iPad developers to design games with cutting-edge graphics that can rival today’s consoles. With games like RAGE and the Citadel demo already on the iPhone, and many more games utilizing this new technology coming out soon, the days of “oh it’s just a phone, it won’t look as good as a dedicated gaming console” are coming to an end. This doesn’t mean that simple games like Angry Birds and Cut The Rope won’t continue to do well- after all, a game is first and foremost meant to be fun and engaging- it just means that there’s no longer an excuse for mobile games to have inferior graphics anymore. Head here for more info about the Unreal engine.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.