The social gaming feature namely the Game Center App will not run on iPhone 3GS and second Gen iPod Touch confirmed Apple. Earlier the buzz was set by the company by announcing the new social gaming feature which would run on any iOS 4 device. All existing iPhone 3G, 3GS and second Gen iPod Touch upgraded to the new OS to go gaming as soon as Game Center Beta version hits the market.

The possible reason that Apple has dumped the older versions of the device could be due to various negative reports on the iOS upgrade. Various problems have been reported by iPhone 3G and iPod touch users about problems in upgrade to iOS 4. So you have got another reason to buy the new Apple iPhone 4 if only you haven’t got one. The Game Center Beta is being considered as the next big thing to kill the portable gaming consoles by the entire gaming industry.

Now gaming on iPhone will go more social and community oriented with the new Game Center application going live. Now iPhone game developers can integrated a whole community of users into their game applications to make their applications more social. The app has the backing of big brand iPhone game publishers for the future possibilities the product opens up in iPhone game development.

iPhone 4 and iOS 4 users should log in to Game Center with their Apple account ID and create a user profile for themselves. You can build a Game Center account custom home screen which displays your Game Center nickname, number of friends, games played and goals accomplished. So from now on iPhone developers can integrate Game center into their applications and bring more interactivity among gamers rather than just playing with the programmed chunk.

Game Center is set for release this fall according to the recent reports. iPhone Game development is set for a revamp and as the craze for community gaming hits the peak by Q4 the Game Center app is going to be a major player in mobile Gaming industry.

Yesterday Apple showed off its iPhone OS 4.0 at the Apple Campus in Cupertino which introduced tons of new features along with 1500 new APIs for the iPhone developers. Also, to our delight, we observed that they have covered all the 5 features we predicted for iPhone OS 4.0 in our earlier post.

This is probably one of biggest ever update iPhone has seen and the features introduced are sure to make the iPhone developers and users equally happy.

Finally, iPhone OS 4.0 brought the most needed ‘Multitasking’ (ability to run more than one App simultaneously) and some more unexpected new features to iPhone.

The new iPhone OS 4 has now introduced a bunch of features including

• iAd
• Enterprise Security
• Game Center
• iBooks
• In-App SMS
• Folders
• Spell Checking

We will be discussing about most of these features in details in further posts.

“Multitasking” was definitely the most awaited feature and the various multitasking APIs introduced by Apple would probably be the most important update for iPhone developers.

Developers always wanted these and now we are sure there are more ideas brewing to leverage these additional features in iPhone. Let us know how you feel these features are going to change iPhone development in the coming days.