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THANKS TO THE EFFORTS of the Iphone Dev Team, Iphone 3G owners can now run Apple's Game Center.

Apple, in its typical zeal that giveth with one hand only to taketh with the other, had decided to turn the games matchmaking service off for Iphone 3G users that run IOS 4.1. However thanks to the operating system having been jail broken, users can now run the program with few problems.

The procedure is a little more tricky than jailbreaking, however the majority of work centers around editing plist text files. A video has been posted showing that an Iphone 3G is more than capable of running Game Center, even though it has a slower processor than the Iphone 3GS or Iphone 4.

IOS 4.0 did cause Iphone 3G users serious problems, with phones grinding to a halt. Apple has mitigated the problem to some degree with IOS 4.1, and while not all of the IOS 4 features are present when installed on an Iphone 3G, it was surprising to see Apple leave out its popular Game Center application.......

Both the Iphone and Ipod Touch have become popular portable gaming devices with Apple CEO Steve Jobs highlighting that during one of his spellbinding marketing rallies.

Apple's Games Center seemed like a logical progression for the cappuccino firm as it takes the fight to Nintendo, though its exclusion from Iphone 3G devices felt like yet another slap in the face to those who had spent so much of their hard earned cash on fruit themed hardware.

It seems that once again hackers have been able to get around Steve Jobs' seemingly arbitrary and overly controlling restrictions in order to make better use of the Apple hardware his customers buy