FarmVille, Guitar Hero have a date with the App Store

The upcoming iPhone 4 release will dominate the news Monday, but mobile gamers have plenty of reasons to be pleased with what came out of Steve Jobs’s keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference. A pair of high-profile games will be making their way to the App Store, and both got significant stage time during Monday’s keynote.

FarmVille, based on Adobe’s Flash technology, is one of the biggest reasons to play games on Facebook–and now it’s getting its own native app on the iPhone. Meanwhile, wannabe rockstars will finally be able to turn their iPhone into a guitar thanks to a new strumming mechanic built for Guitar Hero on the iPhone.

The iPhone operating system’s incapability with Flash has garnered plenty of media attention recently, thanks to a war of words between Apple and Adobe. Now one of the most popular Flash-based games will arrive as a Flash-less iPhone app, so the battle continues.

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