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iGolf and iBowl Bring Wii-Like Sports to iPhone
Touch Arcade — ... Well, it had to be tried. A company called SGN currently has two apps that attempt to bring accelerometer-controlled sports games to the iPhone. ...

Article: iPhone Gems: Games With Balls, and One with Blasting
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — ... (Free) from SGN has two things going for it: no price tag, and an interesting control scheme. You still get a 3-D lane, here without most of the gloss and fancy art in Flick Bowling, and you still get the ability to use novel iPhone/iPod touch controls to bowl; the difference here is that you’re using the accelerometer to throw the ball. [image] SGN accomplishes this in a generally smart way. You put your finger on a BOWL button on the screen and swing your arm. Release the button and the game takes whatever trajectory your arm moved in, and translates it into the direction ...

An Interview with ng:moco’s Neil Young: Rolando and Beyond
Touch Arcade — ... There are some things that are interesting–I wouldn’t call these “good” games–but I think what SGN is doing with iGolf and iBaseball points to interesting data about what people want to do with their device and how they show it off and talk about it, and I think that’s interesting. ...

Interview with Neil Young of iPhone game dev house ng:moco
MacBytes.com — ... at the iPhone Dev Camp 2 back in August, you indicated that you felt there weren’t any really good games yet avaialble for the iPhone platform.  Has your opinion on that changed since then? Neil Young: You know, that’s a good question.  Has my opinion changed?  Here’s a sad statement: not really. There are some things that are interesting–I wouldn’t call these “good” games–but I think what SGN is doing with iGolf and iBaseball points to interesting data about what people want to do with their device and how they show it off and talk about it, and I think that’s ...

SGN launches iBasketball for iPhone
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers On the heels of the release of the iFun game platform and to coincide with the beginning of the 2008-2009 pro-basketball season, SGN, a social gaming company, has launched iBasketball. It leverages the accelerometer mobile technology platform for the iPhone to let basketball fans, sports and gaming enthusiasts play on-the-go.

PLAY iBOWL LIVE AGAINST UP TO FOUR FRIENDS ON THE iPHONE
Top iPhone News — PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 15, 2009 – SGN, a leading social gaming company, has launched an update to its hugely successful iBowl game, so now iPhone and iPod Touch users can engage in a live bowling match against up to four people. The iBowl ‘Challenge’ menu allows players to face random opponents or interact with people they know from around the globe and see their friends bowl as it happens. iBowl is the number four free downloaded game on iTunes in 2008 with more than four million unique downloads.   In addition to new 3D graphics ...

iPhone game round-up: The Creeps, Crazy Drops
Macworld — ... , is now available on the App Store for $3. You can race against the computer or up to three other friends on a single iPhone. You can also design courses using a built-in track editor. iBowl update SGN has updated its popular (and free) iPhone game ...

Location-Based ‘Mafia: Respect & Retaliation’ from SGN
Touch Arcade — SGN, creators of iBowl and SGN Golf, have just released Mafia: Respect & Retaliation [App Store], a location-based role playing game for the iPhone and iPod touch. This newly released game takes social gaming to another world with ‘Sin City’-like 3D graphics and clever location-based gameplay. Players can complete “jobs” either in real-world locations or on their iPhone or iPod Touch with the ultimate goal of becoming the local ‘Don’ in their city. With the optional location feature turned on, players can complete tasks in ...

"Free" Online Dogfighting Game Coming from SGN
Touch Arcade — SGN has released screenshots and some details about their upcoming dogfight game for the iPhone. The unnamed title will deliver an accelerometer controled flighting game that will allow you to battle others around the world over WiFi or 3G. The social fighting feature is a key element that Social Gaming Network's developers will continue to evolve as it serves CEO Shervin Pishevar's vision for platform agnostic game play that engages people in a unique and entertaining way. ...

iPhoneWorld.ca: iPhone App Brings in a 6-Figure Wage in 6 Weeks
iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines — iPhoneWorld.ca writes: It’s posted everywhere that you can make money with iPhone Application Development, but nobody could’ve predicted one app to rake in over $1,000,000 (1 million) single-handedly in its first 6 weeks of being on the app store! That’s the story for a game developed by Social Gaming Network (SGN) called Fleet Air Superiority Training - F.A.S.T Dogfight Game. Originally priced at $9.99, SGN decided to do some experimental pricing, and the app is now priced at $1.99 and ...

Dollars For Dogfights: Making a "F.A.S.T." Million
iSmashPhone — Social Gaming Network knew it had a good thing with their air-combat iPhone game Fleet Air Superiority Training (F.A.S.T. for short).  But how to make it better? Cut the price, for starters.  Originally listed at US$9.99, SGN shot off 80% of that (i.e. lowered the price to US$1.99). The result?  In the first six weeks it was available, according to TechCrunch, "[it] pulled in over $1 million in download fees."  Not bad for a company who started out creating game apps for Facebook. There's no question that a game with a lower price tag is going to be ...

SGN's Upcoming 'Skies of Glory', Online Aerial Combat (Free + DLC)
Touch Arcade — SGN has announced their upcoming game Skies of Glory which is due out later this year. This followup title to their popular F.A.S.T. game will take advantage of Apple's new rules that allow free applications to sell in-app purchases, so like Eliminate Pro, Skies of Glory will be free to download and play but add-ons will be sold in the game itself. Skies of Glory is an aerial combat game much like F.A.S.T. but set in World War II with various terrains including ...

Preview of SGN’s Skies of Glory iPhone game (video)
VentureBeat — Social Gaming Network took iPhone games up a notch in June when it launched F.A.S.T., a fast-action 3-D modern aerial combat game on the iPhone. The game had stunning visuals for an iPhone game, and it shot to the No. 1 spot. Now the company is preparing to launch Skies of Glory, an aerial combat iPhone game set in World War II. Lance Nelson, producer of the game, gave us a preview of the game yesterday at SGN’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Skies of Glory has similar controls to F.A.S.T., but co-developers SGN and Revo Solutions created a brand new engine, or base ...