Broken Sword: Director’s Cut HD Now Available
What’s better than having one of the best point and click adventure games from the 90s on your iPhone? Having that same wonderful game on your iPad and fully optimized, of course! Revolution Software has just released an iPad-optimized version of Broken Sword: Director’s Cut, which features new content and a special comic treat.
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut HD follows the story of journalist Nico Collard and an American tourist named George Stobbart as they investigate a brutal murder. The game features the same multi-touch interface used in Revolution’s only other game available in the App Store, Beneath a Steal Sky – Remastered, to allow you to easily navigate and solve the many difficult puzzles. It also features new puzzles, jokes, cut scenes, and animations not found in the original version of the game.
This new iPad version of Broken Sword also contains a few items not found in the iPhone version, most notably a digital version of the Broken Sword comic which must be unlocked in-game. Sure, it may not make up for the lack of universal support, but it is certainly a nice gesture to go along with those optimized graphics.
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut HD is now available in the App Store for $7.99.
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Another Day, Another Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple
Nokia is not the only company taking Apple to court over infringement of its patents. The latest mobile technology company to make that move is SoftView, a small startup based in Washington.
Softview, formerly called ClearView, has also included AT&T in the suit, which was filed on Monday.
The company offers a vector graphic display system and web browser for PDAs, cell phones, and other Internet devices. According to its website, its design and development team has been developing Vector Graphics Display systems and Internet standards since 1982 (!).
The patent SoftView claims AT&T and Apple are infringing carries number 7461353 (PDF) and was filed in January 2005, back when the iPhone was but a dream. The patent is titled “Scalable Display Of Internet Content On Mobile Devices” and lists two inventors: Gary Rohrabaugh and Scott Sherman.
The abstract reads:
Mobile devices enabled to support resolution-independent scalable display of Internet (Web) content to allow Web pages to be scaled (zoomed) and panned for better viewing on smaller screen sizes. The mobile devices employ software-based processing of original Web content, including HTML-based content, XML, cascade style sheets, etc. to generate scalable content.
The scalable content and/or data derived therefrom are then employed to enable the Web content to be rapidly rendered, zoomed, and panned. Moreover, the rendered displays provide substantially the same or identical layout as the original Web page, enabling users to easily navigate to selected content and features on familiar Web pages.
Display lists may also be employed to provide further enhancements in rendering speed. Additionally, hardware-based programmed logic may be employed to facilitate various operations.
Expect Apple to vigorously defend itself against the patent infringement claims, and perhaps even resort to counter-suing (again).
We’ve asked Cupertino for comment but don’t expect to hear back.
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Another Day, Another Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple
