Mike Caps, president of Unreal Engine-powered, Infinity Blade swinging Epic Games, thinks that rather than next generation consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, people should be keeping their eyes peeled on iPhone 8 gaming, circa 2015:

“So I think that’s the real challenge for us now, rather than worrying about the difference between a couple consoles and some order of magnitude, whether 3X or 4X. It’s about how do we deal with iPhone 8… if you watch where the gamers are going that’s where they are. Your iPhone 8 will probably plug into your TV, or better yet, wirelessly connect to your television set to give you that big screen gaming experience with good sound. So really, what’s the point of those next-gen consoles? It’s a very interesting situation to be looking at. That’s what we’re starting to think about more… not how do we scale from some Nintendo platform to some other future console,” he concluded.

In a clarification, Epic walked that back a bit, saying mobile won’t be replacing consoles any time soon — nor should they, in our opinion, following the same logic Steve Jobs used to describe mobile as the cars to traditional platform trucks.

But given how much better iPhone 4 is compared to the original iPhone 2G, it’s fair to ask what kind of games and experiences will be able to run on an iPhone 8 in a few years, and wonder if, and for how much of the market, that might just be no only enough, but preferable.

[IndustryGamer via AllThingsD]

TimeSpan, by Partixel, is a productivity app for iPhone and iPad that allows you to keep track of important dates with countdowns.

Never again a sleepless night due to a forgotten milestone.

TimeSpan is a minimalist app that makes it easy and simple to manage all your milestones, deadlines and due dates just on your iPhone.

• Beautiful & elegant user interface – TimeSpan has a beautiful styling to the last pixel. Everything has been designed with incredible attention to detail.
• Intuitive & clean workflow – The workflow is completely self-explanatory. There are no unnecessary paths and everything behaves as expected.
• Repeating Timespans – There are enough events that occur again and again, which should be managed in TimeSpan too. So that no more birthday or wedding anniversary is forgotten.
• Remaining days badge – If you want, the remaining time of one event will be displayed as badge on the app icon. You always keep a very important date in sight, directly on your Springboard.
• Notifications – The program can remind you of every event. Even if TimeSpan is not being started. You can choose between various options when configuring the reminder.
• Universal – Use the same application on your iPad without additional cost. And enjoy all the advantages of a native iPad App.
• Speed – Everything is ready designed for fast operation. Nothing will impede you. Creating and editing a TimeSpan is done in no time.
• Localization – TimeSpan speaks English, German, French, Spanish. If you want to help with a missing language, just contact us.
• Full landscape support – The entire app is also usable in landscape mode. So you can always use TimeSpan in your current most comfortable position.

I’ve played around with TimeSpan and I really like the UI. I love that it not only helps you keep manage important dates, but displays them as a countdown bar so that you have a way to visually see how close or far away a date is.

TimeSpan is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99. Screenshots after the break.

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Extra Innings Mobile Instructor is an iPhone and iPad app that allows baseball coaches to markup a player’s video for instructional purposes.

Improve your baseball and softball player technique with the state of the art mobile video analysis tool, the Extra Innings Mobile Instructor App.

• Analyze Player Video: Mark up your player's video with a full set of professional tools, including scaleable shapes, freehand drawing, ball icons, full screen grid and text notes. You can save the analyzed video and send it to the player, complete with titlecard and summary screen, with customizable voice over.

• Professional Analysis feature: For professional analysis, sumbit your player's videos to the instructors at Extra Innings right from the app. Using in app purchase, you can submit your player's videos and receive a fully analyzed video – from your local Extra Innings instructor within 48 hours.

Extra Innings Mobile Instructor is available on the iPhone and iPad for $4.99. Screenshots after the break.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Beep Beep Coloring Book: A creative collection of coloring books made for iPad, complete with pictures, sounds and lots of vibrant colors. [Free for iPad - iTunes link]

• Tweetbot: Now with an added sleep time for push, an option to receive push mentions only from people you follow, and more. [$2.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

• Marball Odyssey Pack1: Guide the ball to the exit without falling out of bounds, avoiding obstacles or by triggering various mechanisms. [Free for iPhone - iTunes link]

• Super Guide: Modern Warfare 3 (unofficial): The in -depth guide will satisfy weekend to serious gamers. [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

• GinoVsDustbins: Your mission? Clean up the streets from the revolt of the Dustbins. Where? In three different cities. How? That’s up to you. [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Phil, Kevin, Tim, Dan, and Rene talk Google vs. Microsoft patent slap-fight, new BlackBerrys (new BlackBerrys!!), waiting on Pre 3 and the TouchPad 3.0.2 update, and Apple eating all the mobile profits. This is Mobile Nations!

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• Google to Microsoft: ‘We didn’t fall for it’ [updated with Microsoft's retort]
• Google responds to Microsoft and vice-versa
• Research In Motion Introduces New BlackBerry 7 Smartphones
• Hands on with webOS 3.0.2 [video]
• Apple now owns 66% of mobile profits

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With iOS 5 Apple is set to add new app to our iPhone, iPod touch and iPad home screens — Reminders! But… it’s 4 years later and some of us have had to figure out ways to remind ourselves about client meetings, kid pick-ups, and dates with significant others long before now.

We’ve used the built in Clock app and its alarms (on iPhone, where is it for iPad, Apple?!), we’ve used the Calendar App and its events, and we’ve used a bunch of App Store apps from the quick and easy Due to the full featured Todo to the dizzying OmniFocus to help make sure we don’t miss those important people, places, and moments in our lives.

What do you use right now to set reminders on your iPhone or iPad, and will you be ditching it now that Apple’s Reminders have finally joined the party?

Infinity Blade by Epic Games is on sale today for 50% of its original cost. The game was one of the first to use the Unreal Graphics Engine to produce stunning visuals and game play. There is no telling how long the offer will last for, so if you are on the fence about picking up this stunning game, now could be the time to do it.

Currently it has received over 10,000 reviews with an average rating of 4.5 stars out of five. We have done our own review of it too, so check that out if you want to see what it is all about.

Infinity Blade is a universal binary; so looks awesome on the iPhone and iPad and is currently on sale for just $2.99.

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Is August 11 the date when AT&T finally starts forcibly switching Jailbreak users who tether unofficially to limited, tiered plans? We knew AT&T was warning users tethering unofficially with apps like MyWi, and that they were threatening to take away their unlimited plans, but when they would start the process has always been a question.

The August 11 date comes from a 9to5Mac reader.

I was just informed that as of Thursday August 11th 2011, if you use MyWi or any tethering on the phone or using the phone as a modem, AT&T will automatically change ur unlimited plan to a 2Gb tethering plan for 45 dollars without the customers consent. This is for those who received emails or texts about the use of tethering without an AT&T tethering plan.

(We assume that the data plan actually being referred to in the quote above is the $45 DataPro 4GB plan which includes tethering.)

AT&T has confirmed that they will be forcibly switching users to the tiered plans, but not the date.  Has anyone else been given a date by AT&T?

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Curious how to quickly get to specific section or category of content in iTunes for Windows or Mac? Luckily Apple has provided convenient drop-down menus for all the major sections like Music, Movies, TV Shows, App Store, Books, Podcasts, iTunes U, and, um… Ping.

In the iTunes Store, you can quickly and easily go from anywhere in the store directly to a particular media type, genre, or special feature by using the top navigation bar. Hovering your pointer over the titles which are always present at the top of the iTunes Store window causes downward pointing triangles to appear next to each media type. Click one and you’ll see a list of helpful links related to that media type which you can use to navigate to what you’re interested in — Jazz in Music perhaps, Action & Adventure in Movies, Comedy in the TV Store, Games in the App Store, and more.

You can use this tip to quickly get more games for your iPhone or iPad, or to jump right to the technology section in podcasts for iPhone Live, iPad Live, and all our other awesome shows.

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