Game Center stutters: first supported game is Ms Pac-Man
Thankfully followed by Flight Control and Real Racing
With Game Center just launched, developers are frantically refreshing their App Store accounts and email clients, checking whether their iOS 4.1 updates have gone live.
Bizarrely considering the assumed importance of the platform to Apple, the first game to get support was Namco's Ms Pac-Man - not a well reviewed game, or one you'd choose to show off achievements, high score leaderboards or player challengers.
It's also not cheap at $4.99 so hardly worth downloading for the pleasure of seeing how Game Center works.
That's the way to do itIt's somewhat surprising that Apple didn't use its own - only game indeed - iPhone game Texas Hold'em as a testbest, both for consumers and developers.
Thankfully though, to the rescue came Firemint with updates to Flight Control - which everyone should have, and it's only 99c, €0.79 or 59p if you don't - and Real Racing.
Both games feature leaderboards and achievements, although don't yet support multiplayer gaming via Game Center despite both enabling it via local Bluetooth or Firemint's own Cloudcell online server. Something for the next update perhaps.
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