If you want to know about all the old features the iPhone is finally getting around to implementing with the OS 3.0 release this summer, head here.
But if you’re a gamer through and through, then you may very well be smiling like the logo above after reading the headline to this article. Basically, the team that brought you the fancifully fantastic Rolando is working on a multiplayer shooter dubbed LiveFire that also boasts in-game voice-chat.
Here are Engadget’s quick impressions from their live blog of the event: “This is pretty impressive, a fairly smooth FPS with in game chat. Graphics aren’t too shabby, if a bit basic. The controls don’t look super easy…”
This looks to be huge news for gaming on the iPhone platform, so what’s the catch? Unfortunately, ngmoco is planning to go all micro-transaction on us and charge separately for each weapon, with a 99 cent rocket launcher being their lone example.
I wouldn’t expect a Bad Company style flip-flop to take place either; the iPhone crowd is already used to the nickel-and-dime method of payment. Something tells me it might be worth the investment though, for what appears to be the first hardcore online game on the iPhone.
I think they said that 99 cents was just an example price, but this is the kind of crap that pisses gamers off and Apple should shut down. I used to like ngmoco, too.