TouchArcade is reporting that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will be available next week for $4.99 in the App Store. Phoenix Wright is a very popular console game from Capcom which went very well on the Nintendo DS before and, in fact, the iPhone version doesn’t seem to be anything more than a simple porting of that one.

For those of you not familiar with the concept:

“Phoenix Wright games are a strange mixture of a visual adventure game that play a lot like mixture of a hidden object game and a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. The game is segmented in to two portions, the investigation and the trial. While investigating, you visit various location and gather evidence by looking around and interviewing anyone who is around. When you’re finished with that, you go to court where you cross examine witnesses, present evidence, and object to the arguments presented by the prosecuting lawyer.”

Check out the first screenshots after the break.

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Jesse Dodds has created a modified .plist file to add CSS3 properties to the auto-completion feature of CSSEdit from MacRabbit. All you have to do is go download it here and enjoy.

A couple days ago we saw that Apple may decide to make the white iPhone’s faceplate white. While some disagree with the move, I think it’s spectacular. In fact, incredibly classy. At least, I came to my conclusion once I saw some renders that everythingicafe came across from iSpazio.

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This afternoon’s bombshell other than Google TV? Apple, who claims to support “open technologies,” will not be embracing Google’s new VP8 video codec. Jobs, in response to an email, linked to a website that describes VP8 as slower than its H.264 counterpart. While Apple hasn’t officially commented on WebM and the open-sourceness of Google’s latest projects, I don’t think Apple would pursue it for a number of reasons. For one, Apple probably doesn’t want to sleep in the bed of the enemy, and two:

“With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free…”

Be sure to check out The Register for more information. They provide lots of juicy tidbits on the matter, but knowing Apple, the user experience and protecting their relationships with media providers comes first.

Italian blog iPadevice has found out that Apple has started rolling out the international iBookstores, which are slowly filling up with iBooks and books from Project Gutenberg. [Google Translation]

As you can see from the screenshots after the break there aren’t many books already, but the store is really filling up as we speak. Categories, banners and charts are live, but we still haven’t seen anything about prices. We’ll keep you posted about it.

Everything’s almost ready for the official launch.

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We all love Twitterrific for iPad, right? It’s a beautiful app, with all the features that you need, yet it’s simple and user friendly. It turns out that after the launch of the iPad and the App Store grand opening, the Iconfactory (developers of the Twitterrific apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac) realized that Twitterrific for iPad was the iteration people liked most: the Mac version was stuck at somewhere between 2008 and 2009, and the iPhone version had become something they weren’t proud of. They wanted to rewrite the apps starting from the fresh and powerful new codebase of Twitterrific for iPad. And so they started working on Twitterrific 3.0 for iPhone and 4.0 for Mac.

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Is Sony digging their own grave? I kind of think they’re eventually going to eat these words, because they really haven’t made some of the best decisions recently either. Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Executive, Michael Ephraim, claims, “I don’t think we are arrogant anymore.” Says the company who totally shafted people (and the United States Air Force) now that they don’t support Linux on their Playstations.

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This explains a lot. Remember when everyone was bummed because Simplify Media decided to close its doors? Turns out Google acquired the company, who made some excellent (no, brilliant) streaming products for the iPhone and iPod touch. I was upset when I could no longer try out their product, but now there’s something to be really excited about. Android users will now have the ability to push iTunes media onto their handsets, which brings some a wicked complement to already great Android apps like doubleTwist. I’ll be excited to test this feature on my Droid when I can.

[via Engadget]

The iPad App Store wasn’t always available in all parts of the world, but Mashable is reporting that Twitter users are quite excited to have access to the iPad’s App Store in the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand. I’m glad to see the folks down under can finally check out some of the great applications developers have been pumping out a few days early, so folks: be sure to stock up before your iPad pre-orders land at your doorstep. A shameless plug, download Twitterrific first!

[via Mashable]