You have to hand it to Gameloft. They have quickly become one of the premiere game developers for the iPhone. Their latest entry into the iPhone game market is Hero of Sparta [App Store] which is best described as a God of War knock-off.

In this $9.99 title, you play King Argos, a Spartan hero, who must battle his way through this epic action-adventure. Your character is controlled in 3rd person perspective with an on-screen analog stick and Block and Attack buttons. The graphics and 3D environment a ... Read more »

Agharta Studio's interactive adventure 1112 Episode 01 [App Store] has just gone live on the App Store.

We previously highlighted this new game, which appears to be a very ambitious interactive adventure.

Take a journey to explore this intriguing mystery and discover the reasons behind his constant headaches and strange dreams. Meet a bunch of colorful characters, dive into bizarre situations until an u ... Read more »

Agharta Studio has posted screenshots and info about their upcoming interactive adventure game called 1112.

The game is an interactive adventure which claims to have a deep and rich story full of surprises and twists. The game will be delivered in a series of six episodes. The first episode is expected in the App Store "soon".

The game features hand drawn artwork for the scenes. Players can utilize the iPhone's touch interface to interact with all visible objects (open ... Read more »

For one day only–today, September 30–Artur Ostapenko's hidden-object adventure game The Stone of Destiny [App Store] is available through the iTunes App Store for $0.99–that's one-tenth it's usual price of $9.99.

If you want to travel to the most beautiful places of the world without leaving your room, then The Stone of Destiny is for you. This fascinating hidden-object game is just made for those who crave for riddles and adventures. Mysterious disappearance of your uncle is only the beginning of a thrilling journey, during which you will explore pyramids, heart o ... Read more »

Interactive Fiction (IF) fans will be pleased to hear that Craig Smith has released Frotz [App Store] for the iPhone through the iTunes App Store as a free download.

Interactive Fiction, better known as "text adventures" was a popular game genre in the '70s and '80s when computers were text-based or offered, at best, very limited graphical capabilities.  The first text adventure, Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT due to a six-letter filename restriction on the PDP-10 for which it was originally written and available [ ... Read more »

One of the games we spoke of in our recent WWDC games coverage was Kroll from Barcelona, Spain-based Digital Legends.  A side-scrolling, 3D fantasy adventure game, Kroll takes full advantage of the iPhone's unique control system; players jump with a jerk of the iPhone, thanks to its accelerometer, and use touchscreen controls to activate weapons and otherwise move about the game world.

While Digital Legends is an award winning development house with PC, console, and smartphone games under its belt, the iPhone was a new platfrom for the team.  Impressively, the demo shown during the WWDC keynote was put together in under two weeks.

With this first iPhone outing, the company is being particularly sensitive to its gaming audienc ... Read more »

The latest in 3D iPhone gaming comes from developer Marco Giorgini. He has released a pre-alpha version of Kingdom Lores, a 3D fantasy adventure game based on an OpenGL ES rendering engine of his own design.

The game presents an over-the-shoulder view of the player's avatar in the 3D game world.  On-screen controls are used to negotiate the terrain, do battle with enemies, collect treasure, etc.  Both portrait and landscape orientations are supported and on-screen indicators keep the player aware of current health levels, selected weapons, etc.

The author indicates that Kingom Lores is and will remain a free game but he is uncertain as to whether it will appear in the iTunes App Store due to the fact that he has no Mac and, as s ... Read more »

Adventure gamers of old will surely recall that some of the best adventures available were SCUMM titles.  No, not a slanderous term, SCUMM (or Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) is a LucasArts scripting engine that was used for the creation of interactive graphical adventure games. And very good adventures, as it turned out.

Modern computers can play these games thanks to the ScummVM interpreter, and happily ScummVM has been ported to the jailbroken iPhone / iPod touch.  As Gizmodo points out, the arrival of ScummVM to Apple's new mobile platform is really a marraige made in hea ... Read more »