You’re probably well aware of the new iPhone 3.0 software that will be available in a few months. This update brings tons of promising features that will help to make the iPhone that much better than the competition. However, a few of the major updates for this new software offer promising features that game developers can use to make their games even better. Some of these features were expected to be announced by Apple, but other ones come as a great surprise in my opinion, and I can’t wait for them to be available.

The App Store comes out in about a week and promises to awe iPhone users with a library of awesome, Apple supported applications. Whether Apple’s idea to include this came from enraged consumers or the rush they were seeing towards jailbreaking is not known. However, in the end, Apple is still going to have to compete with Installer.app to provide the same user experience. The question is, will you still jailbreak your iPhone when the App Store is knocking at your door?

Reasons for both after the break.

A community of Mac OS X game developers over at iDevGames has opened a message board to talk about iPod Touch and iPhone game development. The goal is to get developers together in a place where they can ask questions, get answers, and just talk about ideas for this sort of game development. Editor-in-Chief Carlos more »