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GameSalad is a Game Creation Tool for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

If you’re not impressed with the games at this week’s E3, why not make your own? TUAW reports that GameSalad gives anyone the ability to create games for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. If you’ve ever wanted to create the platform adventure of your dreams, this is your chance. Though TUAW admits,

“Apparently, lots of people have that know-how, because there are already over 700 games that have used GameSalad’s development kit to bring their titles to the App Store. Herring showed me a few of them, and while they were playable, none of them really intrigued me. It’s tough to blame GameSalad for that, though; most of the fault on the games that I played came from the creators, not the tools.”

Hopefully we’ll see someone put these tools to good use, and in the meantime you can check it out for yourself here.

[via TUAW]

OnLive Reveals Launch Titles, Macs and iPad to Get Console Gaming

Cloud based gaming is about to become a reality with the launch of OnLive on June 17th. This week is going to be huge for the video game industry, and OnLive hopes to bring gaming to everyone (on any platform) with their unique approach to gaming. As Macworld reports,

“For the unfamiliar, OnLive is a cloud computing based service that places the burden of processing on OnLive’s servers, not on your computer. This new technology effectively allows OnLive to use any Intel-based Mac as a high-end gaming machine.

The OnLive Game Service is available in two different forms—either through a “MicroConsole”—only about the size of a deck of playing cards—that plugs into your TV and uses your broadband Internet connection, or through your Mac or a PC connected to the Internet and configured with a small browser plug-in available for download from OnLive’s Web site. (source)”

The 1MB client available for the Mac (That’s right - 1MB) allows users to connect to OnLive to try out demos for free, with full titles ranging from $5 to $59 in price.

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The New All Aluminum Mac mini with HDMI

While all of us expected to awaken to iPhone 4 pre-orders, none of us expected a rather serious Mac mini update that’s available online and in stores this morning. Their smallest Mac now features HDMI out and an SD Card Slot - big upgrades for the tiny desktop that make it suitable for hooking up to the big screen. Also included is our usual Nvidia 320M integrated graphics, and the choice of a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor, making it 2x faster than the previous model. Firewire 800 also stays on the Mac Mini, but it has lost a USB port with the feature updates - which is fine by me.

But Mac fans such as myself are most excited with Apple’s amazing visual refresh, which casts the Mac mini in an 1.4-inch-thin unibody all-aluminum enclosure over a round rubber panel that allows customer access to replacing RAM. The Apple team completely reinvented the guts by including a new green, space saving power supply which completely eliminates the need for the brick - all you need now is a single straight cable. A powerhouse that only consumes 10 Watts of energy when idle (85W when active), the Mac mini is also Apple’s most energy friendly Mac yet. Cupertino, this is a job well done.

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iPhone 4: Unlocked, SIM-free, Expensive In the UK

If you don’t want to commit to a provider for 2 years with the iPhone and you happen to live in Britain, well this is your lucky day. Sort of.

Apple has announced the pricing of the new unlocked and SIM-free models, and as you can guess they’re not cheap. £499 for the 16GB version, £599 for 32GB - with the current conversion rates it’s around $730 for 16GB and $883 for 32GB.

Are you sure you don’t want to commit? [via TechCrunch]

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iPhone 4 Takes Down Apple.com

It seems like the iPhone 4 killed Apple’s website. Since Apple started pre-orders on its new device earlier today, many people reported that the website was slow, unresponsive and that they had to click multiple times to confirms their choices and try to get the order through.

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Apple Releases New Mac Mini

We didn’t see this coming, but this morning Apple has released the beautiful and powerful new Mac Mini. Starting at $699, the new Mac Mini features up to 2 times faster graphics, an all new sleek aluminum design, built in power supply, HDMI port, built in SD reader and many, many other stuff. Check out all the details and pictures after the break.

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