Porting

While the 3D shooter, which was built to help developers learn how to use Unity, has been available on the Chrome Web Store since December 6, it can now be played in-browser with no installation at all. More >

Adam Saltsman's one-button iOS platformer Canabalt will be released for the Commodore 64 in 2012. The port has been handled by Paul Koller, with Mikkel Hastrup responsible for the recreating the music on the C64's SID chip. The game will be available on a limited edition C64 cartridge early next year. More >

A coder going by the handle Mr Sid has ported Jordan Mechner's 1989 Apple II game Prince Of Persia to Commodore 64. The project took two-and-a-half years to complete, and has realised one of Mechner's ambitions. "That's crazy!" Mechner writes in the comments on Mr Sid's developer blog. "Back in 1989, when I was making POP on the Apple II, I couldn't get anyone interested in doing a C64 port... because it was too old a system." More >

Epic Games' iOS title Infinity Blade is set to debut in US arcades on October 28. The cabinet will feature a 46-inch screen and support two players, but no other details have yet been revealed. The news follows last week's news that Infinity Blade 2 is headed to iOS. More >

Google has launched PlayN, a tool that compiles a single body of Java source code into versions which run on HTML5, Java, Android and Flash. Described on Google's developer site as an "open-source cross-platform abstraction layer", PlayN uses the existing GWT compiler (Google Web Toolkit) to eliminate any platform-specific calls from your code and replaces them with "tiny, targeted entry point classes that hook into each platform-specific implementation." More >

Ubisoft has further raised the hackles of the PC gaming community with this week's belated release of the PC port of Eric Chahi's From Dust. Rock Paper Shotgun weaves a complex tale of the publisher's seemingly ever-changing stance on the inclusion of its widely detested DRM, a terrible, unoptimised port bereft of customisation options, and an outpouring of vitriol on the Ubisoft forums that seems to have culminated in the publisher saying it will refund those dissatisfied with their purchase which, by the sounds of it, is just about everyone.

Andy Schatz's XNA game Monaco - the grand prize winner at the 2010 Independent Games Festival - is to be released on other platforms. The port is being handled by Empty Clip Studios, and will use the RapidFire Engine it previously used in porting several PlayFirst titles to DS. While no target platforms were specified, Schatz - who describes his game as "Pac-Man meets Hitman" - said the news meant Monaco would be released for Mac "at the very least."

Jakub Dvorský's widely lauded point-and-click adventure has been known to be headed to tablets for some time, but Dvorský had previously said the game would not see release on iPad because the original was built in Flash, a format unsupported by iOS devices. Now, however, he tells Pocket Gamer that an iPad release is just around the corner. "It's almost finished, but we still need to fix a lot of small bugs and test it properly," he said. "It should be ready during the next month…hopefully."

DS modder Smelaum has released a demo of his homebrew version of Minecraft. Players can only add of remove blocks, and there is no way to save at the moment so budding architects may want to stick to simple structures for now. Smelaum intends to rectify that, however, along with adding full-blown level generation in a later release. Take a look at the video below.

Crytek's shooter was released in 2007, and seemed destined to forever remain PC-exclusive. Kotaku reports that the ever-premature Korean Ratings Board - which last week outed the PSN conversion of Limbo - has rated the game for Xbox 360. South Korean gaming site Inven claims to have had confirmation from EA Korea that Crysis is indeed headed to Microsoft's console, with a release date still to be announced.