Archive for the 'Games' Category

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 28th, 2008
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“Fingerboarding,” or skateboarding on a miniature skateboard with your fingers remains a mystery to many adults, so they remain torn about the release of Touchgrind, which has now made its way into the App Store and is available for $4.99 right now. It’s one of those kind of apps that you’re either really into, or [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 20th, 2008
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The Iconfactory and Artis Software have announced the launch of Frenzic for the iPhone, and it’s available right now for $4.99. Based on a game currently available for Mac OS X, Frenzic is a fast-paced (and simple to play) puzzle game in which you must fill circles with wedge-shaped pieces of different colors. If you [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 19th, 2008
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The iPhone games market is really taking off, with sharp, original games derived from a variety of sources. The creativity of small iPhone game developers is displayed with this new game app, Kings Corners. It may signal a wave of new and original games for the iPhone, which would be welcome news, indeed. Based on [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 16th, 2008
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Aspyr Media has plenty of game dev experience, since they’re the Mac game publisher behind titles like Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero Aerosmith. They’ve have stepped into the iPhone arena now with their first game called Buggled and it’s now available for immediate download and purchase from the App Store for $1.99. In [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 9th, 2008
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Freeverse has followed up the popular Flick Bowling with the second game in their line of Flick Sports games: Flick Fishing. The motion controls of the fishing rod and reel seem like they’d work well on the iPhone with its gestures and tilting capability, and with dozens of species of fish to catch, seems like [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 7th, 2008
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Idle Hands is a free iPhone app that runs a global typing contest for all iPhone users, and also gives them plenty of opportunity and instruction to improve their typing. You can practice as many times as you like, but in the end it all comes down to a single, global championship where you have [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 5th, 2008
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Remember when Obama was featured in the very first iPhone app among candidates a few months back? That may have been enough while he was just a candidate, but now that he’s won the election he’ll be getting his own interactive iPhone game, too, very soon. Sad Ninja’s Rock Obama is an iPhone game centered [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Oct 30th, 2008
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THQ has sent word that their latest iPhone game, Pass the Pigs, is in the App Store and available for immediate download right now. You may have already played this one (of if not, there’s a free demo available). Apparently you toss pigs in the air, and get points for however they land, like a [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Oct 29th, 2008
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Lemonade Stand, a classic computer game from the Apple II days (known as the Prehistoric Era by many), is currently being remade for the iPhone by Maverick Software’s Glenda Adams. She says she’s keeping the original gameplay and economics (even down to the original code in some cases), but decided to ditch the distinctly lo-fi [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Oct 24th, 2008
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When a fairly large company forms especially to publish games for Apple’s iPhone, it’s worth noting. But when that company is headed up by two long-time veterans of EA who see the iPhone as the future of mobile game development, it really grabs a byline. Such was the case over the summer when Neil Young [...]

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