Transgaming makes deal with Ubisoft

First EA, and now gaming giant Ubisoft has inked a deal with Transgaming to wrap their titles in Cider and port them over to the Mac. Which seems like great news — Ubisoft has a huge number of quality titles, and bringing those to the Mac must be great for gamers who appreciate a better operating system. But not so fast.

First things first, Cider hasn’t exactly proven itself in terms of making great games, or even ports for that matter. And apparently Ubisoft is taking it slow — rather than bring us games like Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed or the great Rainbow Six Vegas series, we’re getting… wait for it… Catz and Dogz. Oh, and CSI: Hard Evidence, which was hardly a blockbuster on game shelves.

It’s definitely good news that Mac gamers are getting more to play, but if this is all we’re going to get, they can keep it. If they wanted to port us Far Cry 2 when it comes out, or maybe even the long-awaited Beyond Good and Evil 2 whenever it’s done, awesome. But if all we’re going to get is years-old bottom-of-the-barrel crapware, we’ll stick with original Mac game developers, thanks.

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StyleTap officially bringing Palm emulator to the iPhone / iPod touch

Way back in February we posted on an experimental Palm emulator for the iPhone & iPod touch from StyleTap. At the time, they insisted that they were making no commitment whatsoever to release it as a product. Well, apparently they’ve gotten over their cold feet as StyleTap has announced their intention to bring StyleTap CrossPlatform to the iPhone and iPod touch. It will be available in “early July 2008″ and more details will be released at that time.

I wonder if they delayed a bit too long. Obviously, they were waiting for iPhone 2.0, but with native software coming at the same time I wonder how much Palm software people will want. That said, there is a huge catalog of Palm software out there and having come from a Treo I can think of several applications (especially finance related) that I would love to have on my iPhone. What do you think; is there any Palm software out there you really want running on your iPhone?

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