Hardcore console and handheld gamers like to dismiss the validity of Apple’s iDevices as legitimate gaming consoles. And yet, somehow, despite history and conventional wisdom, our movie tie-in games are generally much better than their console counterparts. The latest example of this is The Adventures of Tintin – The Game.

This has been an interesting week for Black Friday deals, and app developers got into the spirit of Black Friday this year by bringing their own mega sales. The biggest titles from the biggest game publishers on the iOS platform are still on sale during this weekend. Gameloft, EA, Telltale, Sega, Chair and others are offering their games are great prices, and you’ve still got time to download your favorites before they get back to their regular price.

Gangstar: Miami Vindication (GMV) is a great idea for a game. In fact, it’s such a good idea that they made it in 2001 as Grand Theft Auto III. But it wouldn’t matter if it was a clone, if it were only a good clone. As it is, GMV is a buggy, jumbled mess. You’ll have conversations with invisible NPCs, drop out of a cut scene to find yourself surrounded by alligators, and end up in gun fights where you have to chase down the thugs who are supposed to be trying to kill you, so you can finish a mission.

Although the Mac version of Eternal Legacy is exactly the same thing as its iDevice predecessor as far as plot and action go, the textures have been improved and the animation is much smoother than on its iOS counterpart. It’s unfortunate that Gameloft didn’t attempt to make other alterations, because although it’s still a solid RPG, Eternal Legacy for OS X is held back by some of the iDevice’s limitations.

Gameloft, a leading global publisher of digital and social games, has announced their upcoming games for iPhone and iPad. The iPhone and iPod touch offerings include Let’s Golf! 3, 9mm and Silent Ops, while the iPad 2 specific titles feature March of Heroes, GreenFarm and BackStab. Check out the full line-up after the break.

Starting Today, Gameloft is giving away one game per day until Christmas. That’s right, you don’t even have to pretend to look for money in your post-Black Friday wallet to get some great games on the App Store. All you have to do is follow Gameloft’s Twitter account for their daily announcement for the next 24 days. It’s a Festivus, er, Christmas miracle.

Fact: In movies, whenever there’s a battle against the devil, the heroes will be Catholic, and a good portion of the confrontation will take place in a beautiful church or some sort of holy ground with all manner of decorative crosses and windows and a life-size corpus with bleeding eyes.

Another Fact: In video games, it’s okay if that same battle takes place in a mansion over a game of pinball, and your religion is irrelevant. Although, considering this game is constantly telling you, “I am the devil,” I wonder if Catholics aren’t maybe better equipped to hit multiple jackpots?

Regardless, pinball fans may get a kick out of Mystery Mansion Pinball, as may iPod owners looking for a quick way to kill some time with a game that fits quite well within the iPod’s capabilities and control scheme.

Apple has finally decided to release an iPhone software development kit (SDK), allowing companies to create applications for the phone. The beta version of the SDK is already in developer’s hands and the full version is expected to be released June 2008. After Apple made the SDK’s announcement at a press conference last week (March more »

The iPhone is Apple’s new gaming platform. Both the iPhone and iPod Touch are powerful devices, capable of playing immersive 3-D games at a decent frame rate. Gameloft is a company known for its previous iPod games on the iTunes store. They have announced that they will bring 15 of their games to the iPhone/iPod more »