{"id":17430,"date":"2010-04-26T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=17430"},"modified":"2010-04-27T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:23:42","slug":"dotemu-announces-public-beta-phase-for-iphone-users-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/dotemu-announces-public-beta-phase-for-iphone-users-starts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DotEmu Announces Public Beta Phase for iPhone Users. Starts Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@DotEmu, a publisher specialized in bringing old games to life, are today announcing they are bring their entire back catalog of retro games, to iPhone and iPod touch. Even better? The company will make these games available in beta format for download by iPhone users, 10 days prior to their App Store release, absolutely <strong>FREE.<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Specializes in developing innovative technologies for bringing hugely-loved retro video games to mobile platforms, DotEmu is announcing it is bringing all of the following titles, in beta, to iPhone users, exclusively, 10 days before their release onto the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, and available on iPhone or directly online, the DotEmu catalogue will offer something for every type of gamer. Amateurs of fighting and arcade games will get their hands on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Street_Fighter_II\" target=\"_blank\">Street Fighter II<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boulder_Dash\" target=\"_blank\">Boulder Dash<\/a> betas, while adventure enthusiasts will not be left out with games like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky\" target=\"_blank\">Beneath a Steel Sky<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.scummvm.org\/index.php\/Drascula:_The_Vampire_Strikes_Back\" target=\"_blank\">Drascula<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicky_Boom\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Boum<\/a>. As for RPG fans, they will relive the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silmarils_%28company%29\" target=\"_blank\">Silmarils<\/a> collection including the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ishar\" target=\"_blank\">Ishar<\/a> series, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Robinson%27s_Requiem&#038;action=edit&#038;redlink=1\" target=\"_blank\">Robinson\u2019s Requiem<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deus_Ex_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">DEUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Packshot-PACK-SILMARIL.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From today, both the store and full game catalog will be available in <em>beta<\/em> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/DotEmu.com\" target=\"_blank\">DotEmu.com<\/a>, and by simply registering yourself for a beta account, you will be able to get your hands on unreleased betas of all of the above games, a whopping 10 days before their official store release. This &#8220;Free&#8221; beta phase will end on May 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Sound trippy? We&#8217;re excited.<\/p>\n<p>[via @dotemu]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.dotemu.com\" target=\"_blank\">DotEmu<\/a>, a publisher specialized in bringing old games to life, are today announcing they are bring their entire back catalog of retro games, to iPhone and iPod touch. Even better? The company will make these games available in beta format for download by iPhone users, 10 days prior to their App Store release, absolutely <strong>FREE.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2144,16],"tags":[2366,2379,2376,2374,13,3501,2377,2375,2380,517,2378],"class_list":["post-17430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-breaking-blog","category-iphone","tag-beta","tag-bta","tag-deus","tag-dotemu","tag-gaming","tag-iphone","tag-ishar","tag-phase","tag-registration","tag-retro","tag-robinsons-requiem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17430"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17527,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430\/revisions\/17527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}