Game On!
Game Center – I’d get used to hearing those 2 words as this is undoubtedly one of the biggest new features of the Apple iOS operating system. We have seen snippets of Game Center floating in the 4.0 BETA’s and a few other places but now it looks like Apple have flicked the switch and we are almost good to go. Carry on reading for the Game Center update.
Just a few short hours ago Apple reset their Game Center server, what does this mean? Well, If you are a developer or you have already managed to get iOS 4.1 installed on your iDevice you may have already have Game Center all set up and ready to go, as I did. Unfortunately Game Center was still in testing mode and as of this morning Apple have reset the Game Center server ready for this weeks public release of iOS 4.1. This means you will need to re-add all those people you had ready in your friends list waiting to play.
The unmistakeable trumpet tone and pop up will tell you that you have a new Game Center friend request.
Friend Request
Currently there are no Game Center compatible games but no doubt as of this week onwards they will start trickling in. Hitting the “Find Game Center Games” screen in the App currently takes you to an Apple Game Center web page and we are presuming that once this is all up and running this screen will take you to the App store for compatible Game Center games.
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Game Center Page
If you missed Apple’s keynote last week take a look at the video below to see the quite spectacular things to come in Game Center:
The possibilities really are endless for Game Center and not just for your high end Epic Citadel games. Something as simple as a game of Scrabble suddenly got a lot more interesting.
Pretty much everybody with an iOS device, gamer or not, will be a Game Center user so you will never have a problem finding someone to have a game with.
Not sure who this is...But he is going down!
Let us know all your early thoughts on Game Center, oh and if you feel like a challenge with fellow iPhonewzelanders and the iPhonewzealand staff… Leave your Game Center ID in comments… Let the games (and Trumpet tones) commence.
Apparently the only game currently that is GC approved is MS Pacman!!
(Psychrn has made 131 comments)
“Mr” Pac man and FieldRunners have just been updated.
OMG- Farmville just updated their app to be Gamecenter supported
(Psychrn has made 131 comments)
Just about need a post about GC games that are being updated all the time??
Ones I have found are: MS Pacman, Farmville, Real Racing, Flight Control,Zentomino,Fieldrunners to name a few.
(Psychrn has made 131 comments)
Further to my last post.
Keep an eye out on this page.
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/find-apps-game-center-compatible/
(Psychrn has made 131 comments)
As we suspected and wrote in this post hitting the “find game center games” link in the app now takes you to the app store and a list of game center compatible games.
@ Paul:I downloaded the farm ville app for game centre but how do you get it to work on gamecentre
(lakeview01 has made 198 comments)
I think you need to open the game once it has been updated before it will appear in Game Center.
(Dezroy has made 20 comments)
How do u paly against people on GC
(lakeview01 has made 198 comments)
Add me on GC too… if you dare! Mwaaahahaha
Krus
(oratoris has made 22 comments)