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Price: Free Score: 9/10 Category: Games Add a dash of Bejeweled into just about anything and you’re practically guaranteed a hit. That’s what PopCap learned yet again this holiday season with the release of Bejeweled Blitz. Created on demand as the standalone offshoot of Bejeweled 2, Blitz brings dedicated updates and one-minute gameplay to Facebook [...]
Price: $2.99 Score: 10/10 Category: Games Every once in awhile an app rolls through Tapscape and totally delights. Murder Detective: Hampton Bridge Murder is one of those apps. Released a couple weeks ago by the relatively unknown Tournay Software, Murder Detective is a solve-at-your-own-pace game-story hybrid with legitimate pop. Designed like a choose-your-own-adventure story [...]
Price: $14.99 Score: 8/10 Category: Education Programs that teach typing are known for repetition, but XType Addictive Typing Tutor strives to turn the tedious learning process into fun. In most cases the affable typing program succeeds with an entertaining presentation of the fundamentals, but every now and again XType falls a bit short. Created [...]
Price: $0.99 Ranking: 7/10 Category: Games Tetris may have upended Angry Birds Seasons from its number one ranking on the app store throne, but EA’s new release proves it’s extremely difficult to update a legend. As it turns out the new One Touch Revolution and Galaxy mode have done little to revolutionize the longtime classic. [...]
Price: $4.99 Ranking: 9/10 Category: Productivity As hackers become more adroit and password fields require increasingly sophisticated unbreakable passwords, it’s practically impossible to keep all your logins straight. That’s why Master Key was invented. The AES256 algorithm encrypted app keeps keeps everything from passwords to card numbers secure in one simple place. Best of all, [...]
Price: $6.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games When it comes to games you can buy in the app store, it doesn’t get much dirtier than Gameloft‘s Gangstar series. These Grand Theft Auto style video games know how to deliver the grit, and Gangstar Rio: City of Saints is the boss of gritty on iOS. Gangstar Rio: [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games There’s nothing shockingly new about Flick Home Run!, but when it comes to fun factor this high flying batting game knows how to hit it out of the park. The game’s cool color palette and casual pace is so appealing it will remind you of the smell franks on [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games Every gamer has seen their share zombies and shoot ‘em up blood baths, but odds are you’ve never seen anything like Call of Mini: Double Shot. Game developer Triniti created a successor to their walking dead original, but this zombie slayer is bigger and badder than ever. Call of [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 4/10 Category: Games MyFatPig may have started as an attempt at innovating eCommerce, but its execution is terribly misaligned. The game itself is based on the simple premise of stealing a farmer’s fruits and vegetables, but the real purpose of MyFatPig is to bring people to an overpriced eCommerce site called Worldwide [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Productivity Don’t let HeadFinder‘s traditional yellow notepad appearance fool you into thinking this app is a blast from the past, because this task master is ready to organize your life and help get things done. With three simple steps users can schedule tasks, notes, reminders, or alarms and then proceed [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 6/10 Category: Games For some, Candy Town is a dream come true. It’s designed to capitalize on the almost universal desire to gorge cupcakes for hours on end, yet while gamers miss out on the actual taste of sweet treats, they might also miss the substance that comes from a wonderfully designed [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 8/10 Category: Games It’s hard to pull off a solid side-scroller on the iPhone. The screen is small, controls are difficult to navigate, and Mario has already been invented. Still, Chillingo’s SpinTrip takes a valiant stab at the task and comes up with a Technicolor world that’s pretty fun. SpinTrip is based [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games The why is unclear, but for some reason aliens have decided they need cows on their home planet. The result is an all out pasture battle by Chillingo called Saving Moo, and it’s wonderfully addictive. The game starts with a couple of cows grazing on grass. The skies are [...]
Price: Free Score: 6/10 Category: Games Put on that cowboy hat and click your spurs together, because it’s time for Saloon Poker. Chillingo‘s latest gambler is nicely executed, but the fact that all players have to register via their Facebook profile is for many, enough to kick this poker game out of the saloon and [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 7/10 Category: Games Chillingo has returned to their cutesy casual gamer roots with Roll in the Hole, a simple puzzler with a story to boot. The evil gorilla Uggi has stolen ice creams from our rotund protagonist panda PoPo, and all he cares about is getting them back. To do so, PoPo [...]
