iOS 4.1 is now live, and along with the much anticipated software update comes Game Center, Apple’s new Xbox-Live-like gaming service that brings officially sanctioned achievements and multiplayer matchmaking to supported iPhones and iPod Touches.
Game Center seems promising, but unfortunately, it’s been hard to figure out exactly what games have Game Center support and which ones don’t… making early testing of the service frustrating. To make things easier, Apple has just updated the App Store with a dedicated Game Center section, highlighting all of the apps that have baked in Game Center support so far.
Unfortunately, most of the games currently on display are a little lackluster, with Flight Control, Fieldrunners and Zen Bound 2 being the real standouts… but hopefully that will change sooner rather than later.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “App Store Updated With Dedicated Game Center Section”
Agree. Game centre has basically stuffed up my games on a regular basis. I had no end of trouble for 1 week as every time I logged into 1 game, game centre wanted to connect to the net( but I was in flight mode, flying!)
Some people might like it but it shits me. I didn’t want it so why should I have it?there should be an option to get it off your iPhone.
I just saw I had an update for Harbour Master and it included game centre. Pity, it made me delete the game straight away becausee Game Centre will stuff it.