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Fling – Possibly the first great iPad joystick idea.

CES is taking place this week and that can mean only one thing, tons of new gadgets! Among all the new 3D TVs, tablets, and set-top boxes came news of a very cool little gadget for iPad gamers from Ten One Design called Fling. Fling is the latest gadget attempting to solve the lack of [...]

Looking ahead to 2011 – The Year of F5 Games!

Merry Christmas everyone! I’m back from Christmas vacation and trying to get back into a game making groove so I thought it might be a good time to take a look at our plans for next year and let you all know where we’re headed. A Look Back First off, let’s take a quick look [...]

BulletStorm and ‘too much cursing’

I had an interesting thing happen today. I tweeted CliffyB, as I have done a few times now, and he responded. I tweeted him because I had recently seen the latest dev diary video for BulletStorm and thought that the game looked awesome, but that the language in the trailer was a little ridiculous. For [...]

Independence Night 1.1 Update On the Way (Updated – It’s Live!)

Update: The update is live, check the updates tab in the App Store app and you should see IndyNight. Good luck on the Achievements! We’ve submitted an update to Independence Night and it should be working it’s way through the App Store review process as you read this. This isn’t a giant update but it [...]

Game Development Links

I’m constantly saving links to various game development articles. Last night I worked through a few of them and thought that I would share a few of them here. So here is a small list of articles you may want to check out if you’re working in the indie game development space. The Perfect Newsline [...]

Independence Night Available in the App Store!

Thanks to our wonderful app reviewer IndyNight is now available in the App Store less than 2 weeks after submission. You can check it out here. The plan is for it to be a free download for the first couple weeks while we work on the first update, once the update goes in the price [...]

Introductions please….

Welcome to F5 Games! As you can probably tell from the site, we make video games, specifically for the iPhone/iPad, and we’re just getting started. Our first game, Independence Night (IndyNight for short) is currently waiting in line to be checked over by an Apple reviewer, whom I can only assume is a wonderful and [...]

The online home of F5Games

Welcome to F5Games! Feel free to poke around while we settle in, and prepare your face for some melting when we introduce our first game: Independence Night! Stay tuned, it’s going to be epic…