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Price: Free Score: 7/10 Category: Games Tap Tap Revenge – a game originally based on the arcade classic Dance Dance Revolution, is back. Now in its fourth incarnation for iPhone, this popular tap-to-the-rhythm game from Tapulous offers fans of the series access to over 100 free tracks, retina graphics and social features aplenty. With [...]
Price: $4.99 Score: 10/10 Category: Games Flight Control is one of my all-time favorite iPhone games and although the iPad edition has been out on the app store for some time now, it’s still one of the few must-have iPad games. Developed by Australian studio Firemint, Flight Control HD has all the elements of a [...]
Price: $5.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Reference National Geographic have recently released an amazing new iPad ebook entitled the Ultimate Dinopedia. The app touts itself as “The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever” – and while I may bring that claim into question, Ultimate Dinopedia is undoubtedly the most comprehensive app of its kind available. The Ultimate [...]
Tis’ the season for price drops, and this week every app in the top 10 comes in at a festive-friendly $0.99. Angry Birds still tops the chart, but EA dominates the lower rankings, with big price cuts on games including Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Madden NFL 11 making it [...]
Price: $9.99 Score: 7/10 Category: Games FIFA 11 for iPhone was released months ago, but EA Mobile have only just recently released a HD version for the iPad. Updated to take advantage of the larger screen, FIFA 11 HD also features an updated price that weighs in at a hefty $9.99. Before drawing any criticisms [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games Electronic Arts has built its mobile business around the successful conversion of console games to the small screen and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 continues the tradition. A game originally released on Xbox 360 and PS3, Bad Company 2 for iPhone doesn’t set the FPS bar any higher, but offers [...]
Epic Games and chAIR Entertainment have just announced that their acclaimed 3D hack-and-slash for iOS, Infinity Blade, will receive its first content update tomorrow – less than two weeks since its debut on the App Store. The first of many promised updates, Content Pack #1 will feature: 5 new swords, 5 new shields, 1 new [...]
Video games are on a lot of Christmas wish-lists again this year, but the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) wants to remind parents that not all games are appropriate for every child. The ESRB is the group responsible for assigning maturity ratings and warnings to video games for sale in America, and has just released [...]
CNN has just released the new CNN App for iPad, a real-time news delivery service which is now available as a free download on the App Store. The new CNN app delivers live updates and breaking news, in-depth features and video as well as live-streams of major news events. “This app harnesses the best of [...]
Firemint have just announced that Real Racing 2, the follow-up title to the standout iPhone racing sim Real Racing, is slated for a December 16th release. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1IO06Nfn-Y Details have been filtering through in the last few weeks but it is now confirmed that Real Racing 2 will debut at $9.99 and feature: 30 officially licensed [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Entertainment A universal app for iOS from Jetson Creative, Magic Window – Living Pictures transforms your iPad (or iPhone) into a mesmerizing moving landscape. Magic Window features high resolution imagery from all around the world, with contributions from foremost time-lapse photographers. Each of the 20 scenes come packaged with an [...]
Just in time for the holiday season, Zeptolab and Chillingo have released a free Christmas-themed edition of chart-topping game Cut the Rope. Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift is available now as a standalone app for both iPhone and iPad and features 25 festive-inspired levels. Christmas lights and decorations add to the holiday mood as well [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 10/10 Category: Productivity It’s no secret that the native iPad Notes app is wildly insufficient for anything but the odd note. Thankfully, there are alternatives available like Notes Plus – Handwriting, Typing, Shape Drawing and Sound Recording from Viet Tran that vastly expand the note taking power of the iPad. Notes Plus [...]
There are now more than 300,000 apps available on Apple’s App Store, and despite the advances made by Android this year, iTunes is still the largest and most popular mobile app marketplace. As 2010 winds down, it’s the perfect time to reflect upon the apps that have bested the competition and risen to the top [...]
Price: $2.99 Score: 8/10 Category: Games It was only a matter of time before the Flick phenomenon made its way to golf. With basically the same mechanic as the popular Flick Kick Football, Full Fat’s new release Flick Golf! and its iPad counterpart Flick Golf HD ($4.99) is guaranteed to find a following in [...]
