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To show off its new GameCenter service, Apple demoed a beautiful upcoming game called Epic Citadel ( link ). The game’s graphics are powered by the Unreal Engine 3—pretty amazing for a cell phone. A demo version of the game is currently available in the App Store for free. Download Epic Citadel .

There were a few announcements from today’s Apple event that will affect iPhone users. The event introduced new iPods, iTunes 10, and a new AppleTV as well: iOS 4.1 to be released next week. Fixes proximity sensor bug where users could accidentally press buttons with their face while on a call. Fixes bluetooth bug where users experienced dropped bluetooth signals with headphones, car stereos, etc. Introduces high dynamic range (HDR) photos to iPhone. HD video uploads over WiFi. TV show rentals. GameCenter arrives, matches you up with friends or strangers to play multiplayer games.

PhotoFast has announced a new dock for the iPhone that allows the charging of multiple iPhones at once. The dock supports up to four iPhones and a mixture of iPod touch and iPad charging all at the same time.

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Out of all of Case-Mate’s iPhone 4 case lineup, the Tough ($34.99, link ) is the most serious about protection. Available only in business-like black, it’s a two-part case, with a tight skin of silicone rubber that wraps around the phone, and then a thick plastic outer layer for rigidity and extra toughness. Protection is the byword for the Tough .

Scrabble ( link ) for iPhone is on sale for $0.99 for 48 hours. That the lowest price it’s ever been (the game was $9.99 when first introduced). It’s the classic board game brought to the iPhone by Electronic Arts, featuring single player, challenge friends via Facebook, pass-n-play, and local network play. Scrabble is a $0.99 download in the iTunes App Store.

Case-Mate are pretty high up on our list of good case makers, with crafted, well-designed cases. We just got hold of their Torque case ( $24.99 ) and took the automobile-influenced sleeve for a spin. While not a bad case by any stretch of the imagination, we felt the stylings and quality didn’t justify the price for what turns out to be a very simple case. When I first spied the Torque on Case-Mate’s website, I assumed that because it was two-toned in design, it would be a two-piece case along the lines of the Incipio Silcrylic , with a hard outer layer and soft inner layer

Radio Alarm ( $1.99 ) is a beautifully designed alarm-clock app that can run in the background and wake you up with your favorite radio station or iPod music. But that’s not all it does, as it has a nice set of complementary features, including a sleep timer, soothing nature sounds to go to sleep to, and Retina Display-friendly graphics. Although you probably shouldn’t rely on your iPhone to wake you up every morning (a lot can go wrong), Radio Alarm has quickly become my favorite app to do so. The app supports a local Chicago station, WBBM, I like to listen to in the morning. So it’s nice to have the station fade up in volume to gently wake me until I’m ready to hop out of bed. And if I want to keep listening over my morning coffee, I just carry the iPhone with me

An interesting new dock for the iPhone has surfaced at the FCC from Griffin. The dock is called the PartyDock and has four wireless controllers and can be hooked to an external screen for multiplayer gaming.

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A company called Kiwi has a new app that turns your iPhone into a device for monitoring your car. A hardware device plugs into the OBDII port on your car and lets the app measure performance and other aspects of your vehicles operation for $149.99.

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Google has released a big update for its Google Mobile iPhone app ( link ) that adds push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The notifications can be adjusted in the app’s settings to only appear during a specified time. For example, you could turn off notifications for while you’re sleeping. Also added to the Google Mobile app were instant as-you-type info for flights, weather, stock quotes, and currency conversions that show up without even tapping Search . We wonder why Apple simply doesn’t have an option to turn on Local Notifications for its Mail app so there’d be no need to use a push notification server. Or maybe Google was wondering the same thing and got tired of waiting for Apple to implement it. Google Mobile is a free download from the iTunes App Store.