The biggest complaint 
from iPhone owners to date has been the inability to access sites that use Adobe’s Flash player. Adobe spent years appealing Apple’s decision without success. Now the company is throwing in the towel.
Adobe has announced plans to cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers – a move that may well signal the end of Flash. The company instead plans to focus on HTML5.
Super Crossfire 
has been charming people since it was an independent game on Xbox Live, but in a rare twist, it actually works better on a touch screen than it does with a controller. It also becomes a must-play game for anyone who spent part of their youth in a video game arcade. The Space Invaders homage is impossible to miss, but the game adds enough twists and turns that it sheds the clone label and stands on its own.
The in-app purchases seem superfluous and a bit of a money grab, but that issue aside, this is one of the rare apps that kids and adults alike will both love.
While Contract 
Killer: Zombies certainly isn’t for everyone, you have to give the game credit for paying attention to the details. The graphics are fantastic, and the story and voice acting are much better than they need to be. Those alone put it above so many of the zombie shooters on the market. Ultimately, though, it gets repetitive and its difficulty curve is designed to encourage players to buy in-game currency, which leaves a bad taste in our mouth. It’s certainly much too violent and scary for kids, but if you’re a George Romero fan, you’ll likely have a great time with it.
With the holiday 
season fast approaching, analysts chime in with their game sales predictions, noting that the core gamer is “the demographic to watch this year” and examining the software battle for third place.
Gamers might be celebrating a horn of gaming plenty this holiday season, but it’s still up in the air if retailers will be cheering along.
The fourth quarter of 2011 has one of the most impressive lineups of titles in years. And it’s off to what seems to be a good start.Gears of War 3 sold 3 million copies in its first week. Battlefield 3 hit 5 million in that time. And the launch of Modern Warfare 3 will top that.
There’s little doubt 
that today’s launch of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” will set new entertainment industry records for first week revenues. But to put things in perspective, here are a few numbers – some hard, some estimated by analysts –showing how big of a monster this franchise has turned into.
You’d think that 
with today’s proliferation of readily accessible nude pictures, adult films, and sex toys, the world of erotica is disposable; there’s always something new just a click away, so why bother to save anything?
But the depiction of sex has been a part of human culture for thousands of years. While it’s easy to think that the pornography industry is an invention of the last three or four decades, erotic expression reaches as far back as the 8th century BC.
If you thought 
that guy who bid $1,725 for an early copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was a bit too eager to play the game, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Over the weekend, two separate delivery trucks carrying copies of the heavily-anticipated shooter were hijacked in France. French police estimate the stolen shipments to be worth roughly 780,000 euros (about $1.1 million).
Activision turned 
heads last year with its eye-popping “There’s a Soldier in All of Us” campaign for “Call of Duty: Black Ops”. Now it’s upping the ante.
Jonah Hill (“Superbad”) and Sam Worthington (“Avatar”) headline the campaign’s new installment – with a quick cameo from Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard. And it’s just as heart pounding as the original.
The holiday season 
is typically loaded with must-have videogames, but the number hitting shelves this year is unprecedented.
Several top franchises have new installments out and some new games are looking very promising. That’s good news for players, but it’s even better for gift buyers, since few gamers will be able to keep up with the deluge. Here are some sure-fire suggestions.
While there’s 
little doubt the videogame industry will once again end the year with negative growth, publishers are certainly positioning themselves to go out with good fight this holiday season.
The lineup of major franchises releasing games in the fourth quarter is unparalleled this year and could be a boon for both players and game makers — and, ultimately, investors.
Chris Morris: Journalist 