There's an error in the article. The game is $9.99, not $12.99. My intelligent guess is that the price mentioned in the article is listed in Australian dollars.

on/off topic - the rumours of Apple TV as a an actual panel ... I no more think they are going this way... the included mirroring functionality seem to suggest they are on their way to push a TV box or console some time in the future, not an actual screen. If you think of it, they do already offer a reasonably large 27" panel (many ppl use panels even smaller around their houses).

Considering, there are screen offers now that bring loads of pixels to a 10" screens, Apple might go for a 40-42" screen (the largest market) as monitor/TV screen, but with Apple TV as a box, not as a built in functionality.

Just my personal op.

Id guess that the new iPhone will have the improved graphics that will allow this too.

But, although this sounds fine for letting others watch what you're playing, I'm skeptical that you will be able to watch the screen and tilt to steer, like a console with a controller. There may just be too much lag. Even a fraction of a second could throw things off too much. My guess is that they'll need to do the game processing on the Apple Tv itself before this will really work.

I'm curious about what kind of frame rate and delay you'll get using wireless streaming of in-game graphics, rather than a direct connection with HDMI. Can wireless streaming really keep it up so you get a nice gaming experience without stuttering graphics and delays on the TV?

I decided to fire her up anyway to see how she performs - It's a little laggy, but things are only going to get better from here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhgDSrsMp4

I like the full screen view...

1) Apple licensing things out is unlikely ... but, well, not impossible.

2) Last year the wifi association had all this talk of super fast wifi standard (that supposedly may allow wireless monitors to become mainstream), i guess if they did(I haven't followed that one lately)/do secure the necessary waves it will be amazing.

3) Apple tv on Thunderbolt? Yes, it's my ultimate dream, TB (not he desease ))) ) may potentially replace all the cable clutter (usb, hdmi, audio connections and so on). I hope they push it to companies all around the wold real hard right now. The first flat screen that comes out with TB port is a sure buy for me.

I think that this is just the first step of the Apple TV becoming a gaming console. Without the battery restrictions on power they could put in a faster A5 processor and make an app store for the AppleTV. Then companies could make a program that runs on the AppleTV to allow multi-player gaming.

For instance, the makers of Real Racing could make a program that resides on the AppleTV which recieves input signals only from multiple iOS devices calculates a tiled image of all players "views" and then displays them to the HDTV it is hooked up to. This would reduce the latency issues of sending large graphics over Wi-Fi and would allow for multiplayer fun that other consoles offer.