Daily Blips: 13,000 iPhone games, Square Enix Europe, Assassin’s Creed 2, Mega Man vs. Metroid, and More

The iPhone has a lot of games. Just thought we’d tell you.

News Blips:

• iPhone offers 13,000 ways to procrastinate. Apple announced that the iPhone currently has a whopping 13,000 games in its App Store. We want to play more, but we’re still stuck on the “Woo” game — any help? [Joystiq]

• PS3 games too fat, get stuck in the Intertubes. At this year’s E3, Microsoft announced that it will be releasing full downloadable Xbox 360 games through Xbox Live. Sony, however, won’t be doing the same with the PS3 just yet. Mostly because of the bloated size of Blu-ray. We have a solution, though. [IndustryGamers]

• Square Enix Europe is like Eidos without the Eidos. Role-playing game pros Square Enix bought Tomb Raider publisher Eidos earlier this year. Only now Eidos is no longer. Instead, it will now be named Square Enix Europe. Square Enix Antarctica still under negotiations. [MCV]

• Future music games may not need consoles; TV still important, though. Rock Band makers Harmonix imagine a future where music games can simply plug into TVs and play. Hopefully in this same future Triangle Hero exists. [VideoGamer]

Hit the jump for some video blips, including a Assassin’s Creed 2 video doc, space battles of the gratuitous nature, Mega Man vs. Metroid, and…more.

Video Blips:

• Assassin’s Creed 2 video doc explains main character’s impossible-to-remember name. Ezio De-la…ah, screw it.

 

• Gratuitous Space Battles features surfing panda bears. OK, fine –gratuitous space battles.

 

• Barney in Chocoland needs more purple dinosaur. False advertising.

 

Cultural Blip:

• Sure, why not: Mega Man vs. Metroid. Retro gaming site 8-bit.com whipped up this totally-not-legal flash game that pits Capcom’s Blue Bomber against Nintendo’s buxom bounty hunter. Whoever wins, they lose the legal battle. [technabob]