Of all the trends to close out 2011, I couldn’t be happier with the emergence of Animals Playing Games On Gadgets. First came the agile-bearded dragon, then the vicious African Bullfrog, and now, in perhaps the most impressive display yet: a cat that is very, very good at Fruit Ninja.
This is awesome. Brisbane band Hey Geronimo has recreated a heap of classic iOS games for the video clip to their single Why Don’t We Do Something? It looks amazing. Watch:
Kinect is about six months old now, and despite selling by the truckload, there’s still not too much in the way of truly engaging games available for the platform. But with the news that the Aussie-developed mobile masterpiece Fruit Ninja might be coming to the controller-less console, it raises the question: Could Kinect be the perfect mobile gaming port machine?
Your Fruit Ninja high score is irrelevant. In fact, no game of Fruit Ninja that you’ve played in your life so far matters anymore, not now that a motion-tracking system, 5.1 surround sound and a Wiimote have given the popular mobile game this insane virtual reality iteration.
Fruit Ninja, by Aussie developers Halfbrick, is one of the best touchscreen smartphone games out there. But as you can see from these videos, the game doesn’t translate too well over to real life…
It’s a good sign to see very popular iOS games – Fruit Ninja and Pocket God – get ported to Windows Phone 7. These games, and the previous games that got ported, means developers are able to make the transition from iOS/Android to Windows Phone rather easily, unlike the transition from iOS to Android, which seems to be taking longer. Good for you Windows Phone users.
We weren’t going to include Fruit Ninja in iAppalooza. Not because we didn’t like it – on the contrary, it’s one of the best games ever invented for a touchscreen device, and it’s Aussie made as well. No, we weren’t going to include it because, at over two million sales worldwide, you’ve probably already got it installed on your phone anyway. What changed our minds was the multiplayer mode that came when Halfbrick added Game Center support.
Fruit Ninja, an iPhone favourite, is coming to the iPad this week, the bigger dojo allowing for more luxurious, eight-finger, multitouch slashing and head-to-head competition against other players. Bigger, riper fruits and craftier ninjas? Sounds good to me. [TouchArcade]
