Archive for the ‘Other’
Slug Wars Adds Quality Gaming to iPhone at a Slow Pace
Tower Defense games are way too popular on the iPhone. Don’t get me wrong — I enjoy tower defense, but not so much that I want to download 100 different versions of that particular game style. When I first heard about Slug Wars, I was given the impression that it was a tower defense game, [...]
Use Your Coconuts to Blow Stuff up in Coconut Riot
A new game is on its way out, supposedly getting finished up this week, in which the goal is to use coconuts as grenades to blow obstacles up. Judging by the teaser video it looks good and certainly challenging. It reminds me a bit of Bloons, where you have to aim darts at balloons so [...]
My Review of Super Monkey Ball 2 for iPhone
When Apple announced iPhone OS 2.0 and introduced the App Store to the world (App Store, this is the world. World, App Store.), one of the original games shown off to build buzz and interest was Super Monkey Ball. This is a popular game on video game systems such as the Wii and Game Cube, [...]
App Concept: Games With Voice Input
Several new apps featuring voice input have been popping up in the App Store recently. Dragon Dictation is one such example, allowing the user to speak their texts or emails instead of bothering to write them. The same goes with Google and Bing apps that enable voice search.
So for the life of me I can’t [...]
Update: FIFA 10 Now in App Store
This just barely came down the pipeline, folks — looks like the game you’ve all been waiting for, FIFA 10 by EA Mobile, has just become available for sale in the App Store for $9.99. Go ahead and download it now!
We are Now an Alltop Blog
I just want to take a moment to give a big thanks to the guys over at Alltop who so graciously are giving me a spot in their feed at http://iphone.alltop.com. My hope is that we can continue to work together to spread the word about some of the cool apps that are on their [...]
Farm Friends is This Millenium’s “See and Say”
At the end of August we will have another iPhone app for children; this one in particular is called “Farm Friends” and very closely resembles a See and Say toy.
According to the press release, Farm Friends is a clever twist on the popular toy. Tap the arrow and the spinner spins, but which animal will [...]
Latest iPhone App Releases 5/3/09
Just a quick update here: This weekend we saw the release of Myst ($5.99), TweetNews ($.99), and I am Ninja ($1.99) on the App Store.
The biggest advice that Myst has to offer when downloading is to make sure you have 1.5 GB free space on the iPhone before the process begins. It’s going to take [...]
What in the App Store is Tuna Pitch?
Category: Music
So it certainly is one of the more creative names we’ve heard. But according to its website, a new music tuner app is coming soon to the App Store, called Tuna Pitch.
Essentially Tuna Pitch acts as a pitch pipe and chromatic tuner combo.
On the site it lists a few features the app can do. [...]