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'iFun' Turns iPhone Into Wii-Like Controller
Wired: Gadget Lab —   A new suite of free iPhone games turns the handset into a controller, potentially creating competition for Nintendo's Wii. Social Gaming Network's iFun consists of four sports games -- golf, baseball, basketball and bowling -- that you'd play on your computer screen, taking advantage of the handset's accelerometer to use it as a controller. Also cool is you can play with other iPhone users over the internet. It's pretty straightforward: Connect your iPhone to 3G or the same Wi-Fi network as your computer (the ...

CrunchGear — We’ve had a blast playing SGN’s suite of Wii-like games over the last few months - iGolf, iBowl and iBaseball (basketball, tennis and boxing are coming soon). The apps are being downloaded like crazy on the App store, and no wonder - you get to swing your iPhone all over the place while you play the games. Now SGN is rolling out something a little different. iFun turns the iPhone into a Wii-like controller, but the actual games are played on normal desktop and laptop computers. The first title to launch is golf. If ...

iFun turns your iPhone into a Wiimote like controller
Newlaunches.com — SGN had previously created golf, bowling and other accelerometer-based games for the iPhone and iPod Touch (as well as a number of Facebook word and other games). Now they have come out with a new game, iGolf. This is the first game on the company's iFun platform, which lets you use an accelerometer-equipped handheld as a controller for a Web-based game in a desktop browser. In other words, this is the first game that the technology turns the iPhone or iPod Touch into a Wii-like controller. Of course, you have to worry about possibly throwing your iPhone/iPod touch when you do this. Nintendo got in some trouble following the launch of the ...