How Apple’s A5 Chip and iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Gaming

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How Apple's A5 Chip and iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Gaming

A screenshot of Infinity Blade II on the iPhone 4S illustrates the fine graphical detail enabled by Apple's A5 processor. Image: ChAIR Entertainment

If the last two weeks of mainstream press coverage are to be believed, the only relevant features in Apple's new iPhone 4S are Siri, the phone's remarkable digital assistant, and the new 8-megapixel camera, which delivers near point-and-shoot image quality to Apple's mobile platform.

But there's one other feature that's largely been ignored, even though it too was demoed at the iPhone 4S debut: Apple's A5 processor, which grants exciting new opportunities for iOS game developers.

The 1GHz dual-core A5, along with various aspects of iOS 5, have the potential to seriously supercharge gaming on both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (which uses the chip too). At Apple's iPhone 4S launch event, we were shown a demo of Infinity Blade II, and its graphics were impressive enough to wow even jaded console enthusiasts and PC gamers.

In your curiosity duly piqued? Here are some of the virtual sword-clashing, adventure-questing and strategy-pondering improvements we can look forward to as game developers explore (and hopefully implement) Apple's latest updates.

7X Graphics Power for Fancier Rendering Effects

Smartphones and tablets are great gaming platforms, but they have typically placed us in graphically simple visual environments (think Angry Birds or Scrabble). But now that Apple's A5 processor is available in both iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, game developers can go hog wild in designing graphically intense 3D worlds for iOS, confident of a growing installed base of Apple's fastest mobile chip.

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