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Pricedrop to $4.99 for DeepSpaceNewt 2008-08-14 10:41:46 Scott Harker from DejaVu just let us know that DeepSpaceNewt for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been dropped in price. This retro space-based strategy game cost $7.99 when it launched, but the developers have decided to lower the price to $4.99 which makes the game immediately a lot more interesting for us. With the [...]
IQ Boost training your short-term memory 2008-08-14 10:35:27 IQ Boost
, a brain training game developed by tnxbai, is now available in the App Store. It’s based on the Dual N-Back cognitive exercise, which is said to be the only exercise that improves your short-term memory and fluid intelligence. The game has adjustable difficulty levels and features a nice detailed reporting of your progress [...]
Interview with Ben Gottlieb from Stand Alone 2008-08-13 18:22:52 We recently had the chance to ask Ben Gottlieb of Stand
Alone some questions about Crosswords, their first game for Apple’s iPhone. The game has been out for some time now and Ben Gottlieb is very happy with the success of their title and the response they received from the community. Ben Gottlieb also talked [...]
Balloonacy new free app with some advertisements 2008-08-13 17:57:37 Balloonacy is the first game of Mobile Amusements for the iPhone and it’s now available in the App Store. In the game you need to tilt the iPhone to guide your balloon through maze-like levels. If you touch an obstacle or one of the walls, your balloon will pop and your quest for keys to [...]
Sci-fi life on your iPhone in Astro Ranch 2008-08-13 12:56:43 Today TAG Games confirmed the development of AstroRanch
to PocketGamer. Astro Ranch looks a bit like Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, but opposed to those two games Astro Ranch is set somewhere in the 50’s in a sci-fi world with motion- and touch-controls with some cool connectivity features. Sindy Starlight is your name and [...] Read more:iPhone
Toy Bot Diaries Entry 1 looks very cool 2008-08-13 09:46:04 Today IUGO released its innovative iPhone-game Toy Bot DiariesEntry
1 in the App Store. You play as a cute little robot called Toy Bot and you control him by tilting the iPhone. By tapping objects in the levels you pick them up and use them. The first impressions of the game are very positive, [...]
Adrenaline Poker Online now available 2008-08-13 05:54:02 There were already some Poker
-games available
on the market for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but with Adrenaline
Poker Online from publisher Eurocenter you can now play poker online. You can play Limit and No Limit Texas Hold’em with up to nine other players, or you can play all by yourself in the nice solo [...]
More info and screenshots from Rolando 2008-08-13 05:38:24 In July HandCircus announced a neat looking game called Rolando, a physics puzzler that looks a lot like LocoRoco for Sony’s PlayStation Portable. It has the same colorful look like LocoRoco, but the controls of this puzzle game are off course totally different. You can manipulate the levels by rotating, sliding, dragging, pressing buttons and [...]
Neil Young, ngmoco and nglabs at iPhoneDevCamp 2 2008-08-12 16:20:27 Neil Young, an former Electronic Arts game producer who started his own iPhone development studio called ngmoco, gave an interesting keynote at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco. Young tells why he quit EA to start his own iPhone development studio and what his plans for the future are.
The keynote is definitely worth watching, but [...] Read more:Neil Young
Squirgle! action puzzler won’t make you seasick 2008-08-12 16:09:22 Squirgle! is an action puzzle game that should keep you busy for hours according to Powerhouse Games, the developer of this iPhone and iPod Touch game. By rotating the octopi you need to collect as many gems as possible in the two different game modes packaged in a nice marine theme with relaxing music and [...]
Jewel Quest II puzzled itself in the App Store 2008-09-04 17:27:54 Jewel Quest
II was just thrown into the App Store
for $8.99. This puzzle-adventure game was developed by I-Play and is based on the very popular and well-selling casual game franchise Jewel. In the game you play as Rupert who picks up a new treasure trail in search of the most cryptic Jewel Board ever. [...] Read more:Jewel
Update for Toy Bot Diaries: Entry 1 2008-09-04 17:23:32 Today Toy Bot Diaries
, available in the App Store for $3.99, was updated to version 1.1. And as was announced earlier in our interview with Sarah Thompson from IUGO, a demo for Toy Bot Diaries: Entry
1 is coming. This first update for Toy Bot Diaries has some bug fixes, optimized performance, enhanced controls and [...] Read more:Update
PlayFirst’s Diner Dash now available 2008-09-04 09:17:08 Diner Dash developed PlayFirst is now available
for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store for $9.99. Become the boss of your own five-star restaurant in this addictive and stressing game. Diner Dash for iPhone features six different customer types, five fast-paced levels and two modes. Read more:Diner
Amazing Sudoku available in App Store 2008-09-04 09:08:01 Today DAVA Consulting has published its first game for the iPhone in the App Store
. AmazingSudoku
has two popular modes, namely Magic Sudoku and Classic Sudoku. Thanks to the three difficulty levels in the game both casual and hardcore gamers can enjoy this puzzlegame. The game features an infinite number of levels and high [...] Read more:available
ScribBall heading to App Store soon 2008-09-03 17:23:34 The past few weeks Howling Moon Software has been busy porting ScribBall from the Mac to the iPhone. This pick-up-and-play title packed with addictive gameplay for both casual and hardcore gamers has hand-drawn graphics and uses realistic physics. In the puzzles there are a number of special balls that may explode, mix things up or [...] Read more:Store
More Spore might be heading to iPhone 2008-09-03 17:09:43 Pocket Gamer had some time to talk to Will Wright in London this week, and he said that Spore
Origins may be the first Spore game to come out on the iPhone
, later games could be coming to the iPhone later. “It’s got beautiful graphics, good music and it uses the tilting controls,” says Wright [...]
New update for Super Monkey Ball 2008-09-03 16:59:20 Today SEGA released another update for its popular iPhone game Super
Monkey Ball, available in the App Store for $9.99. Version 1.01 features an interactive tutorial, instructions and the function to suspend the game by pressing the ‘Home’ button. TUAW claims that SEGA has also improved the game’s controls.
As promised, the “dead zone” where [...]
No Belkin JoyPod coming to iPhone 2008-09-03 16:56:05 Earlier this week we told you about the Belkin JoyPod, but now it appears that this neat looking iPhone
add-on will never see daylight. Belkin told Touch Arcade that they don’t have plans to release such a product. Now we hope that the iControlPad will be a nice replacement for Belkin’s JoyPod. We doubt that [...]
Sunflat Games developing a bunch of iPhone games 2008-09-02 14:17:28 PapiPole for iPhone
Sunflat GAMES has released a list of upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch games currently in development in their studios. The main character in all of these games is Mr. Papi known from the free app PapiJump available since August. Papi will appear in four upcoming games:
Flying PapiJump: Mr. Papi was starving so he’s [...] Read more:developing
Putting ghosts asleep in Touch Ghosts 2008-09-02 14:05:49 Touch Ghosts, a game developed by an Italian developer, is a new puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that looks similar to FlipIt when it comes to the gameplay You get a bunch of ghosts that you need to put asleep
. It looks like a very simple game that will cost about $1.29. [...] Read more:Putting
Raging Thunder speeds towards iPhone 2008-09-23 00:58:55 The studio behind Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart has released RagingThunder
, another racegame for the iPhone
and iPod Touch. It’s a ‘coin-op’ racing game with awesome 3D graphics, WiFi multiplayer, boost, draft and tackling physics and customizable controls. Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart was an awesome game, so we’re all looking forward to check this new [...] Read more:speeds
New update for X-Plane 9 coming 2008-09-21 10:15:56 Not too long ago Laminar Research launched an update for its iPhone- and iPod Touch-game X-Plane
9 and now they already have a new update with some fixes and improvements. The framerate of the game will be improved by 25%, you’ll be able to calibrate the position of your device, the contrast interface will be [...]
Cosmic One 2008-09-20 06:19:42 The folks over at oeFun, who we interviewed a couple of days ago, were so kind to send us an early version of their new game Cosmic One for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Cosmic One also developed iVoodoo and Tilt Me for the iPhone, and now they have another smashing new game for [...]
BiiBall 3D loses $2 and gets a free Lite version 2008-09-20 04:15:42 BiiBall 3D from Bootant has been dropped in price from $2.99 to just $0.99, and since today there’s a free Lite demo version
of the game. BiiBall 3D is pretty similar to Cube Runner and recently got an update with some bug fixes, and improved gameplay and graphics. The game is actually Cube Runner but [...]
Scrabble just $7.99 for a limited time 2008-09-20 04:04:46 EA has dropped the price of Scrabble
for the iPhone and iPod Touch from $9.99 to just $7.99 for a limited
time. EA seems to be trying out some things with different pricepoints, it recently dropped the price of Tetris with $2 as well. In Scrabble gamers need to form words with lettered tiles they [...]
Touch’Em makes animals match on iPhone 2008-09-19 03:18:17 Play’Em has just announced that it has released Touch’Em for the iPhone
and iPod Touch. It’s the studio’s first game for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch and it uses the multi-touch technology from both devices. Touch ʻEm is a unique take on icon-matching games, leveraging the iPhone
platformʼs multi-touch technology to create a fast-paced and addictive [...] Read more:makes
Lite version Blue Skies in App Store 2008-09-19 03:10:05 Earlier this month Rocking Pocket Games’ released Skies
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for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and not too long after that they dropped the game in price to just $5.99. Today they placed a free demo version
of blue Skies: Air Force Academy in the App Store
. The Lite version of this top-down 2D helicopter [...]
Fan Caps now available in App Store 2008-09-19 03:05:05 A while ago we talked about Fan Caps from Interactive Fan for iPhone and iPod Touch. In this game you pick a cap, and then it’s your goal to move the cap and hit the ball in the right direction to fool your opponent and to score a goal. The game is in 3D, features [...] Read more:available
, Store
Vector Blaster brings the arcade to iPhone 2008-09-18 11:58:09 Tempest, a classic 80’s arcade game, is now getting a new life and a new name on the iPhone
and iPod Touch. VectorBlaster
is a $2.99 game from Rude Scotsman and is a clone of Tempest. You blast rhough obstacles and overcome insurmountable odds as you, Vector Blaster, fight to save your home planet [...]
Update with new features for X-Plane 2008-09-18 11:53:46 Laminar Research has published on its forum that X-Plane
for the iPhone and iPod Touch will be receiving an update in the coming days. “DUDE.. you have only seen the START.”, that’s what the developer of X-Plane says on the forum and then he sums up a nice list of new features
for this $9.99 [...] Read more:Update