If the Unreal Engine-powered visuals of Infinity Blade were priced beyond your means, you can now pick up the game on your iPhone or iPad for free.

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The youth vote tends to be notoriously low during election seasons, which can only be attributed to video games and rock-and-roll music. Infinity Blade developer Chair Entertainment has announced their part in helping solve that problem, with Vote: The Game. This free app launches tomorrow, letting you duke it out as Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.

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If you get squeamish around the impending threat of mobile games, be advised that the content of this article is graphic and may disturb you. Infinity Blade is Epic's most profitable game franchise, according to CEO Tim Sweeney. The statistic comes with a few caveats, but it's still a pretty striking example of a rapidly changing games marketplace.

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Chair Entertainment's Infinity Blade 2 is still one of the best looking games you can play on an iThing. If you haven't played in a while, Chair has announced a new content update, coming this Thursday. Called 'Vault of Tears,' the update will bring a significant amount of new gameplay and goodies, and is absolutely free.

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Infinity Blade 2 has received a large, free content update today, and is on sale at a cheaper price to boot. The "ClashMob" update creates social challenges, along with new in-game items, and the Gem Forge feature. Unfortunately, it doesn't include synchronized crowd dancing -- you're thinking "FlashMob."

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Simple 2D pick-up-and-play games aren't the only apps that can dominate the mobile market. Beautiful 3D Unreal Engine-powered battery-killers can also rake in the money, as Epic Games has proudly announced. The Infinity Blade franchise has generated over $30 million in earnings since its inception to the App Store one year ago.

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Infinity Blade 2 launched just yesterday on the App store, and subsequently rocketed to the top of the Games section of the App Store. But a few iOS devices are running into a memory bug, specifically the iPad 1 and the iPod Touch. Epic Games VP Mark Rein says the company is aware of it and working on a patch.

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Infinity Blade II developer Chair Entertainment had to "death march kill ourselves" to release the iOS game today, co-founder Donald Mustard has said. "We definitely won't do that again," he said, calling the long months of crunch "not really good... for the longevity of our studio."

Chair made Infinity Blade II in only six months, Mustard said. But "it required for us, for the last two or three months, to just death march kill ourselves." He explained, "We don't look at that like that's a good thing at all. We only did it because we definitely, passionately wanted to get the game done, and we wanted a little more in there."

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Infinity Blade 2 will be available tonight, and is the continuation of what developer Chair Entertainment sees as an ongoing franchise. Co-founder Donald Mustard says the first game intentionally featured story hooks for sequels in case it was successful.

"The Hobbit is kind of the prelude to The Lord of the Rings," Mustard said. "What if Infinity Blade 1 was like the prelude to The Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings -- a prelude to this much bigger story we wanted to do?"

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Mike Capps from Epic Games took stage at Apple's "Let's Talk iPhone" event today. Why? He wanted to show off Infinity Blade 2, running on Apple's newly announced iPhone 4S. The phone comes equipped with a new chip called the A5, which promises graphics performance "up to 7 times faster than in the previous iPhone."

Taking advantage of the new hardware is Infinity Blade 2, which promises to have "visuals that you've never seen on a mobile device," according to Capps.

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The first Shadow Complex was a tremendous success, breaking Xbox Live Arcade sales records when it first released. Developer Chair Entertainment had plans for a sequel before tabling them, opting to work on Infinity Blade for iOS instead. So, what ever happened to Shadow Complex 2?

"Shadow Complex 2 is sitting there, it's actually largely designed," Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski said.

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Unreal Engine and iPhone showpiece Infinity Blade is set to get another free update on Thursday, adding multiplayer support among other new additions. The "Arena" content pack will let you take on the role of a Titan or Knight and challenge your friends to 1v1 matches through the Game Center app.

In addition, the content update will include a Survivor mode, new holiday-themed helms, and more than two dozen new items including magic rings, swords, shields, and helmets. You'll also get Facebook integration and new Achievements to show off your progress. Read more »