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The iPhone As Your "Dark Passenger"

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

This past weekend's San Diego Comic-Con brought more than a few bits of game news, both anticipated and completely unexpected, but arguably one of the biggest surprises was the announcement of an episodic game based on Showtime's original series Dexter coming exclusively to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Yeah, that Dexter. Finally, you'll be able to kill people on the subway and get away with it!

Not much is known about the game beyond this announcement, only that it will incorporate text messages and phone calls for a more immersive experience and – of course – gesture controls... you know, for... um... slicing people up after you've brutally murdered them. Since that's all we know about the game right now, I've gone to the liberty of coming up with a few more ideas of how the iPhone's features could make Dexter a truly immersive gaming experience:

– Use the iPhone's accelerometer to virtually bludgeon your victims into submission. Red flashes on the screen indicate that you're doing it too hard. An audible grunt/sigh from the speaker indicates a successful knock-out!

– Shout into the iPhone microphone to intimidate your victims into admitting their heinous crimes.

– Leave the game idle on your desk with Google Maps open to simulate long, uneventful stakeouts.

– Call your sister regularly to talk about how difficult her life is.

– Hold off important work-related text messages and voicemail until the really interesting parts of the game, so you have to quit and wait until next time to find out what happens.

– Batista has dragged you to the bar again! Let your fingers do the awkward dancing in a DDR-style touchscreen minigame.

– Use that 3G network to learn Spanish.

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Christopher Robin said:

Well how unfortunate for the rest of us non ipod/iphone users...  I still love the show though!

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