Gamers who practice Islam may find this particular homebrew iPhone application created by Guided Ways useful: check out the iPray, a comprehensive Islamic prayer software that not only walks users through in their prayers, but also gives other prayer-relevant information like daily prayer timings in the user's local city, as well as Qibla direction, distance and athan.

Here's the complete features list for iPray:

• Supported Firmwares - Tested on firmwares: 1.02, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
• Prayer Timings - Do you travel a lot (or want to look like someone who travels a lot)? Or are just not sure what time to offer salat? Now you can get prayer times for 23,978 cities in 252 countries round the globe in iPray for iPhones!
• Seven Day Prayer Schedule - To find out prayer timings for the next seven days for the selected city, simply scroll the page to the left to switch between days. Very useful especially in Ramadan or when traveling.
• Favorite Cities - Whether on the move or on a short visit - you can set and retrieve details of unlimited favorite cities so that it's easy to turn back to them when you're back in town. Manages settings for each city separately to avoid frustration.
• Hijri Date Converter - Convert gregorian date to hijri date and vice versa. COMING SOON .
• Hijri Date Adjustment - iPray allows you to adjust the hijri calendar by subtracting or adding days in order to reflect your current date.
• Add Custom Cities - Can't find your city in our database? No problem - enter details of your city and iPray will remember them for you. You can save UNLIMITED custom added cities - COMING SOON.
• Numerous Athan MP3s - Numerous athan files can be downloaded from within iPray to select from. Each individual prayer can be assigned a particular athan file. More files will be available for download from iPray periodically. Currently it offers Athan from Makkah, Medina, Al-Aqsa, Bosnia, Yusuf Islam and Egypt.
• Timings on a date - Want to know what time you'll be waking up later this year in Ramadan, or what time the prayers will be on a particular date? iPray Prayer Calendar can take in a particular Gregorian date and give you calculated prayer timings on that day. COMING SOON
• Automatic Alerts - You can set automatic Athan and vibration alerts for specific prayer times. This is especially useful in western countries where there is no Athan and no way of being notified of the current prayer. New: iPray Beta now alerts with athan/vibration even when the phone is asleep! (Please read the Note above)
• Islamic Events - Use the Islamic Events of the Year. feature to find out when's what! It provides dates of important Islamic events/festivals both in Hijri and Gregorian for the current year.
• Five Calculation Methods - iPray/iAdhan/iAzan offers five famous prayer times calculation methods so that you may be able to switch between them based on your personal preference and locality.
• Using custom prayer calculation method - If the built in calculations aren't good enough for you, you can set custom Fajr and Isha angles to compute prayer times - COMING SOON
• Asr calculation methods - iPray has both standard (Imam Shafi', Hanbali, Maliki) as well as Hanafi method.
• Qibla Direction - Did you know that magnetic compasses are incorrect and cannot be trusted for getting the direction of Kabah? This is because the magnetic field changes and does not point to the TRUE North. iPray/iAdhan/iAzan gives you an accurate direction of the Qibla based on True North as well as the relative direction from the current position of the Sun or the Moon in the sky.
• Volume Settings - Set a different volume for individual prayers! Want Fajr athan to be louder than Asr (when you're at work)? No problem. iPray/iAdhan/iAzan lets you set volume for individual prayers to adapt your surroundings and circumstances.
• Adjust individual prayer times - You can adjust prayer times individually by adding/subtracting minutes to each prayer time
• All-in-one Display - Based on the all-in-one design of Prayer Times for Mobiles.
• Super-fast

Interested? If you own a jailbroken iPhone, you can have this application downloaded directly to your iPhone. Just follow the steps below to properly install iPray:

• You will need a Jail-broken iPhone. Jailbreaking is not the same as Unlocking. Jailbreaking simply allows one to have full access to the iPhone including installing 3rd Party Apps.
• Download the AppTapp Installer.app and follow the instructions to copy Installer.app onto your iPhone.
• Next, run Installer.app on your iPhone
• Select 'Sources', press 'Edit', then 'Add', and type in http://www.guidedways.com/iphone
• Accept the installer message and it will show 'Guided Ways Repository' on the sources list (if it doesn't, click on 'sources' again).
• Select 'Install'. You should now see '* Guided Ways *' in the Category list (restart install.app if it doesn't). Select the category and then select 'iPray' from the list
• Click 'install'

It's certainly good that people are finding even more ways to integrate technology into their lives. If you're not Muslim, then we've got another religion-oriented homebrew, this time for the DS.