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It’s official: the two largest jailbreak app stores for the iOS platform, Cydia and Rock, are getting together.

ModMyi is reporting that Jay Freeman (AKA Saurik) and Mario Ciabarra (AKA psuskeels) have been working through an acquisition of Rock Your Phone, Inc. by SaurikIT, LLC for several months now. That deal became official last night, and over the next 10 days there will be a transition from Rock to Cydia where users can continue to purchase and download apps from the Rock app. After that time, users will need a Cydia store login to continue buying apps. Many of the themes and apps on Rock are already found on Cydia; the remainder will be transferred to Cydia as soon as possible.

According to the post, Ciabarra will continue producing the Intelliborn line of jailbreak apps, which includes such big titles as MyWi, Tlert, MyProfiles, My3G, and Intelliscreen. At a recent “geek lunch” in Denver that Erica Sadun and I attended, Ciabarra noted that Rock Your Phone has been quite successful, with total revenues from startup in March of 2009 accumulating to over US$3 million in August of 2010. Ciabarra’s comments in the post indicate that he prefers doing app development to enhancing platform functionality, so the acquisition will let him get back to doing what he does best and loves the most.

Although the two stores have both had their supporters and detractors, the merging of Cydia and Rock should be a win for the two companies and for the jailbreak community as well.

TUAWAlliance of the jailbreakers: Cydia acquires Rock originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s funny — right in the middle of all of the fervor during the Game Center launch this week, the first company to the fore didn’t happen to be one of these big new startups that’s making headway in iPhone gaming. It turned out to be Namco, as one of the oldest brands around, Ms. Pac-Man, became the first title on the App Store to support Game Center. Now, of course, there are a few more games that support Apple’s service (and more every day), but Macworld has a great look at what’s coming next from Namco.

Turns out Namco’s planning to go all-in on both iPhone and Game Center — in addition to bringing a sequel to the Time Crisis on-rails shooter, it will bring a hidden object, ghost-catching game called Mishap; Gaijin Games’ great Bit Trip HD (already a hit on Nintendo’s WiiWare); and of course Puzzle Quest 2 very soon. There’s no official release dates or prices yet, but all of those should be out in the next few weeks.

With full Game Center integration, there will be plenty of achievement-chasing and leaderboard competition to be had, no doubt. We’ll look forward to all of those releases soon.

TUAWNamco talks Game Center originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s iPhone 4 case program page reminds you that if you haven’t jumped on the free case they’re offering for the Antennagate issue, you’re running out of time. The free case program will expire on September 30th, so if you haven’t yet, run on over there, download the app to your iPhone, and choose a case for Apple to send off to you.

Or, if you are planning to buy an iPhone 4 but haven’t yet, you might want to jump on it before the month ends — some of the cases can sell for up to $30, so essentially you’re getting a nice discount if it was something you would have bought anyway. There are certainly plenty of other cases to buy, and I’ve been using my iPhone for the past week or so without a case at all and it’s worked just fine, but September 30 is the cutoff, so make a decision by then for sure.

A better question might be when we’re actually going to get the cases ordered from the app — of course it’s going to take a while to ship all of these free cases out to all of Apple’s customers, but at this point I’m wondering how long after the program actually expires before Apple has sent out cases to everyone who applied for one.

[via Mac Rumors]

TUAWReminder: Get your free iPhone case by September 30th originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Creating high quality in game user interfaces in OpenGL ES can be a challenge, I’ve even seen things taken so far as to integrate Cocos2D with the SIO2Engine by one developer who was trying to add a sophisticated interface into their game.

A friend of mine pointed out a library that enables the development of user interfaces which has just gone open source, and has also added support for the iOS and MacOSX.  What really makes this library interesting is that it allows you to use HTML/CSS to design your interfaces with a few extras added for real-time interactivity.

The project is known as libRocket and you can visit the homepage with documentation and a support forum here:
http://librocket.com/

The Github project including iOS targets and samples that run on Mac OS X can be found here:
http://github.com/lloydw/libRocket

Overall this looks like an interesting project for those looking to create highly interactive in-game interfaces.

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