Macgamestore.com is now accepting pre-orders for UbiSoft’s upcoming strategy game, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom (http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=1421) for Mac OS X. It costs US$49.95.
As a bonus, Macgamestore.com is offering a free copy of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence when you pre-order The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom before the game ships on March 23, 2010.
Read MoreSaying a liver transplant saved his life, Apple CEO Steve Jobs helped convince California lawmakers to draft organ donation legislation, unveiled at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s hospital Friday morning, reports the “Silicon Valley Mercury News” (http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14710378).
His decision to go public with his transplant to help others was applauded by the Governor, Arnold Schwarznegger, who is advocating for passage of the bill.
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If you’re a developer planning an iPad app and want it to be available on April 3 (when the iPad hits stores), you need to have it to Apple by March 27, 5 pm (Pacific).
Apple is encouraging developers to “submit your iPad app now for an initial review by the App Review Team and receive feedback on its readiness for the grand opening.” Developers should build and test their iPad app using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 available on the iPhone Dev Center (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action). Only iPad apps built with iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 will be accepted for this initial review.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Tessera Design has announced World Builder 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. It’s an US$3.99 suite of tools that enables game masters of pen-and-paper role playing games “to build, map, and explore worlds like never before.” You can create locales, non-player characters and maps, as well as customize locale and NPC characteristics.
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The odds are stacked against the iPad reaching sales of one million as quickly as the iPhone did, YouWager.com, an online bookmaker says.
The iPhone, which went on sale in June 2007, took 74 days to get to the one million mark. The iPad, a tablet device that debuts on April 3, has a 72 percent probability of taking longer than that, according to YouWager.com, which began taking bets on the topic this week.
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